While China was covering up Covid-19 it went on an international buying spree for ventilators and masks. From Jan 7th until the end of February China bought 2.2 Billion masks !

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China did this while telling the world there was no person to person transmission, which they knew was false back during the second week of December. 

They also stopped 3M Corporation from exporting any masks to its country the U.S.  

What's worse is 3M did not object. 

China bought 2.2 Billion masks while people in Italy and U.S. died.

When is the World going to see the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) .

 

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What good would it have done for 3M to object?

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13 hours ago, BLA said:

They also stopped 3m from exporting any masks to its country the U.S.  

What's worse is 3M did not object. 

China bought 2.2 Billion masks while people in Italy and U.S. died.

When is the World going to see the true nature Chinese Communist Party (CCP) .

 

When you say China, do you mean the country, the CCP or the individual people?  Did you include Hong Kong in that total of 2.2 billion masks?

 I was sending masks from Malaysia to a couple of Hong Kong friends in February, upon their requests, and I have friends who were sending into China.  At that time, very few Malaysians were wearing masks, but it was already getting very scarce because they were sucked up into East Asia (HK, China, S Korea, Taiwan).  My friends also managed to get masks sent to them from Indonesia. 

You can see the desperation in this video dated 5th February. Those masks were sourced from Dubai.

 

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3 minutes ago, Hotone said:

When you say China, do you mean the country, the CCP or the individual people?  Did you include Hong Kong in that total of 2.2 billion masks?

 

CCP 

That's 2.2 Billion masks while they told the world nothing to worry about. 

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New social distancing grocery shopping recommendation from the media.  Full body mask.  Safety first!

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{I didn't know how to get this on except in this format. It is worth reading.}
Explains why Italy is really suffering with the Wuhan Flu.

ITALY’S COMMUNIST RECIPE FOR DISASTER

by Giacomino Nicolazzo

(Giacomino Nicolazzo is one of Italy’s most beloved writers.  Born and raised in Central Pennsylvania, he lives in a small village in Lombardy where he writes his books.)

Montecalvo, Lombardy, Italy, March 24, 2020.   As I sit here in my involuntary isolation, it was just reported that overnight 743 more people died and 5.249 new cases have been reported. This brings the total cases of infection to 69,176 and the body count to 6,820. We take relief in knowing that 8,326 people have recovered so far. (Numbers as of 3/24, 8:30pm in Italy.)

Most towns here in Italy, from the upper reaches of the Alps to the ancient shores of Sicilia and Sardenia, while not deserted, are closer to being ghost towns than the bustling centers of tourism, business and daily life they were just a few weeks ago.

Stores and shops have been shuttered. Restaurants and coffee shops no longer serve customers. Schools, universities, sporting arenas…even our museums and theaters…all closed. Even the Vatican City has closed its gates and armed patrols monitor the 20 foot tall walls that protect it!

Streets and roads are now empty for as far as the eye can see. Normally they would be filled with crazed Italian drivers in tiny cars and scooters (the ones that sound like demonic insects) darting here and there, reaching the limits of centrifugal force on our roundabouts. In the piazze of our towns and cities, there are now officially more pigeons than people.

Many of us know someone who has been infected and recovered. Some of us know someone who did not recover…now they are dead. But everyone knows someone who has been affected by this microscopic monster in one way or another.

Sixty million of us are in lockdown…it is like a war zone here. We are being held prisoner in our own homes by an unseen enemy that sneaked in unnoticed…by most of us. As you will read in just a few more minutes, there were those who knew something like this was coming…or at least they should have.

So who is to blame? With all this craziness swirling like a whirlpool at our feet, I just had to find the blame answer. And so I have spent my free time (of which I have a lot in these days) digging and researching. I was literally shocked to discover how this has come to be.

I am not going to bore you with talk of Patient ‘0’ who spread it to Patient ‘1’ and how mathematics efficiently explains the rapid expansion of infection. No…I am going to tell you how (as I see it) the virus came to Italy.

It has everything to do with communists. Allow me to explain.

Beginning in about 2014, Matteo Renzi, the imbecile ex-mayor of Firenze (Florence) acting as the leader of the Partito Democratico (synonymous with the Italian Communist party), somehow managed to get himself elected as Italy’s Prime Minister. To give you a proper frame of reference, Matteo Renzi was so far left, he would make Barack Obama look like Barry Goldwater!

At the same time that Renzi was leading Italy into oblivion, strange things were happening in Italy’s economy. Banks were failing…but not closing. Retirement ages were being extended…for some reason the pension funds were dwindling or disappearing. The national sales tax we call IVA (Value Added Tax) rose from 18% to 20%, then to 21% and again to 22%.

And in the midst of all this financial chicanery, the Chinese began furiously buying up Italian real estate and businesses in the North.

Now the reason I mention Renzi and the Chinese together is that strange things were also going on between the governments of Italy and China. A blind eye was being turned to the way the Chinese were buying businesses in the financial, telecommunication, industrial and fashion sectors of Italy’s economy, all of which take place in Milano.

To be brief…China was getting away with purchases and acquisitions in violation of Italian law and EU Trade Agreements with the US and the UK…and no one in either of those countries (not Obama in the US or Cameron in the UK) said a thing in their country’s defense. As a matter of fact, much of it was hidden from the public in all three countries.

In 2014, China infused the Italian economy with €5 billion through purchases of companies costing less than €100 million each. By the time Renzi left office (in disgrace) in 2016, Chinese acquisitions had exceeded €52 billion. When the dust settled, China owned more than 300 companies…representing 27% of the major Italian corporations.

The Bank of China now owns five major banks in Italy…all of which had been secretly (and illegally) propped up by Renzi using pilfered pension funds! Soon after, the China Milano Equity Exchange was opened and much of Italy’s wealth was being funneled back to the Chinese mainland.

Chinese state entities own Italy’s major telecommunication corporation (Telecom) as well as its major utilities (ENI and ENEL). Upon entry into the telecommunication market, Huawei established a facility in Segrate, a suburb of Milano. It launched is first research center there and worked on the study of microwaves which has resulted in the possibly-dangerous technology we call 5G.

China also now owns controlling interest in Fiat-Chrysler, Prysmian and Terna. You will be surprised to know that when you put a set of Pirelli tires on your car, the profits are going to China. Yep…the Chinese colossus of ChemChina, a chemical industry titan, bought that company too!

Last but not least is Ferretti yachts…the most prestigious yacht builder in Europe. Incredibly, it is no longer owned by the Ferretti family.

But the sector in which Chinese companies invested most was Italy’s profitable fashion industry. The Pinco Pallino, Miss Sixty, Sergio Tacchini, Roberta di Camerino and Mariella Burani brands have been acquired by 100%.

Designer Salvatore Ferragamo sold 16% and Caruso sold 35%. The most famous case is Krizia, purchased in 2014 by Shenzhen Marisfrolg Fashion Company, one of the leaders of high-priced, ready-to-wear fashions in Asia.

Throughout all of these purchases and acquisitions, Renzi’s government afforded the Chinese unrestricted and unfettered access to Italy and its financial markets, many coming through without customs inspections.

Quite literally, tens of thousands of Chinese came in through Milano (illegally) and went back out carrying money, technology and corporate secrets.

Thousands more were allowed to enter and disappeared into shadows of Milano and other manufacturing cities of Lombardy, only to surface in illegal sewing shops, producing knock-off designer clothes and slapping ‘Made In Italy’ labels on them. All with the tacit approval of the Renzi government.

It was not until there was a change in the governing party in Italy that the sweatshops and the illegal entry and departure of Chinese nationals was stopped. Matteo Salvini, representing the Lega Nord party, closed Italy’s ports to immigrants and systematically began disassembling the sweatshops and deporting those in Italy illegally.

But his rise to power was short-lived. Italy is a communist country…socialism is in the national DNA. Ways were found to remove Salvini, after which the communist party, under the direction of Giuseppe Conte, reopened the ports. Immediately, thousands of unvetted, undocumented refugees from the Middle East and East Africa began pouring in again.

Access was again provided to the Chinese, under the old terms, and as a consequence thousands of Chinese, the majority from Wuhan, began arriving in Milano.

In December of last year, the first inklings of a coronavirus were noticed in Lombardy…in the Chinese neighborhoods. There is no doubt amongst senior medical officials that the virus was brought here from China.

By the end of January 2020 cases were being reported left and right. By mid-February the virus was beginning to seriously overload the Lombardy hospitals and medical clinics. They are now in a state of collapse.

The Far-Left politicians sold out and betrayed the Italian people with open border policies and social justice programs. One of the reasons the health care system collapsed so quickly is because the Renzi government (and now continued under the Conte government) redirected funds meant to sustain the medical system, to pay for the tens of thousands of immigrants brought in to Italy against the will of the Italian people.

If you remember the horrible earthquake that decimated the villages around Amatricia, in the mountains east of Rome in 2015, you would also remember how the world responded by sending millions of dollars to help those affected.

But there is a law in Italy that prevents private donations to charitable Italian organizations. All money and donations received must be turned over to a government agency, who in turn is to appropriate the funds as needed. But that agency is corrupt just as are all the others.

Most of the money never reached a single victim in the mountains. The Renzi government redirected the vast majority of those funds to pay for the growing immigrant and refugee costs.

As the economy worsened under the burden of illegal immigration, compounded by gross government spending and incompetence, unemployment rose quickly…especially among young people. The unemployment rate for men and women under age 35 is close to 40%.

So more money was diverted from the health care system and used to pay what is known here as guaranteed income. Whether you work or not you are paid here, especially if you belong to the PD! The government simply raises taxes on those who do work.

Let me give you a quick example of the height of insanity to which Italian taxation has risen. If you live in a building that has a balcony or balconies…and any of those balconies cast a shadow on the ground, you must pay a public shadow tax! I will say no more!

The point I am trying to make here is that not only did the Chinese bring the virus to Italy (and the rest of the world) it was far-Left politics and policies that facilitated it.

This should hopefully be a warning to Americans that while they work to rid themselves of the China Virus, they should just as vehemently endeavor to rid their government of any politician that circumvents the Constitution and ignores the laws of the land…plain and simple.

 

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5 hours ago, Hotone said:

When you say China, do you mean the country, the CCP or the individual people?  Did you include Hong Kong in that total of 2.2 billion masks?

 I was sending masks from Malaysia to a couple of Hong Kong friends in February, upon their requests, and I have friends who were sending into China.  At that time, very few Malaysians were wearing masks, but it was already getting very scarce because they were sucked up into East Asia (HK, China, S Korea).  My friends also managed to get masks sent to them from Indonesia. 

 

We  are talking about the CCP and the LIES that accompanied these actions as they sent millions of people to infect the world. If it was only purchasing the equipment for themselves that is fine. But they acted as barbarians and HID the disease from the world and their own people. Thus they had effectively requisitioned the world's resources while promoting contagion outside China and denying those resources. The CCP was insider trading.

This horrible uncivilized behavior earns them a complete quarantine of the CCP from the world economy international organizations and travel.  The world should only accept permanent out migration from China. The supply chains should migrate out of China ASAP. By 2025 we should have a complete permanent quarantine of China, and particularly the CCP membership. G19, not G20.

What China is infected with is the CCP.

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6 hours ago, Douglas Buckland said:

What good would it have done for 3M to object?

The U.S. would have taken action.  It's one thing if a Country like Germany stops a German company like Bayer from exporting Hydroxychloroquine.

It's different when a mfg like 3M, a U.S. company mfg in China to export to the U.S.  Then China prohibits them from exporting to U.S. and buys volume that was mfg in U.S. all the time telling the world the virus can't be transmitted person to person. Or telling the world the virus is contained. 

3M gladly went along with China's plan.  $$$

Trade negotiator Navarro requested mfg data from 3M .  They stonewalled.  The President had to enact emergency defense law to get it out of them.

3M is scum.

 

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2 hours ago, Gerry Maddoux said:

Thousands more were allowed to enter and disappeared into shadows of Milano and other manufacturing cities of Lombardy, only to surface in illegal sewing shops, producing knock-off designer clothes and slapping ‘Made In Italy’ labels on them. All with the tacit approval of the Renzi government.

 

Chinese workers in Milan's fashion industry dates back to the 1980s. The vast majority of the Italian fashion business of midline quality ready to wear was based on these illegal Chinese immigrants. 

Renzi's business with China is obviously a case of corruption. Something of a "things as usual" in Italy. 

Political parties in general, particularly the leftist ones, operate as organized crime. They are hard on the various versions of the mafia because they compete with their business. 

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7 minutes ago, BLA said:

The U.S. would have taken action.  It's one thing if a Country like Germany stops a German company like Bayer from exporting Hydroxychloroquine.

It's different when a mfg like 3M, a U.S. company mfg in China to export to the U.S. and China prohibits them from exporting to U.S. and buys volume that was mfg in U.S.

3M gladly went along with China's plan.  $$$

Trade negotiator Navarro requested mfg data from 3M .  They stonewalled.  The President had to enact emergency defense law to get it out of them.

3M is scum.

 

Yet you need them and you claim them as your own (Made in America scum?).  trump is scum for telling them not to ship to Canada - WTF did Canada do to deserve that?  Other nations will retaliate - no medication for you!

 

 

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No Hydroxychloroquine for you!

 

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13 hours ago, Enthalpic said:

Yet you need them and you claim them as your own (Made in America scum?).  trump is scum for telling them not to ship to Canada - WTF did Canada do to deserve that?  Other nations will retaliate - no medication for you!

 

 

U.S. is shipping to Canada.  Get your facts straight. 

Whenever there is an earthquake, tsunami, typhoon, hurricane, wild fire, famine, draught, floods or terrorist attack anywhere in the world the U.S. is first to provide assistance, food, supplies, manpower, military and moral support.  Many times the only one and always ten times the assistance of any other country.

Cut the crap dickhead

 

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3 minutes ago, BLA said:

U.S. is shipping to Canada.  Get your facts straight. 

 

3M told trump to go pound sand.  He is on record for telling them to not send masks to Canada. look it up

 

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https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200403005218/en/3M-Response-Defense-Production-Act-Order

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The Administration also requested that 3M cease exporting respirators that we currently manufacture in the United States to the Canadian and Latin American markets. There are, however, significant humanitarian implications of ceasing respirator supplies to healthcare workers in Canada and Latin America, where we are a critical supplier of respirators. In addition, ceasing all export of respirators produced in the United States would likely cause other countries to retaliate and do the same, as some have already done. If that were to occur, the net number of respirators being made available to the United States would actually decrease. That is the opposite of what we and the Administration, on behalf of the American people, both seek.

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"With all respect, kindly fuck off trump"

- Sincerely, 3M

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Running some numbers on the back of an envelope here.

According to the CDC, the US employs about 18 million healthcare workers.  Many of those won't be front line, so let's suppose we're talking about 6 million healthcare workers that require masks.  China has 4 times the population, so it's not unreasonable to expect that they would have 24 million front-line healthcare workers.

24 million carers using 3 masks a day is 72 million masks, which over a month would come to 2.16 billion masks.

I absolutely see why China would have ordered 2.2 billion masks. They probably had to buy more elsewhere because 2.2 billion is only enough for one month.

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13 hours ago, BLA said:

U.S. is shipping to Canada.  Get your facts straight. 

Whenever there is an earthquake, tsunami, Typhon, hurricane, wild fire, famine, draught, floods or terrorist attack anywhere in the world the U.S. is first to provide assistance, food, supplies, manpower, military and moral support.  Many times the only one and always ten times the assistance of any orhet country.

Cut the crap dickhead.

 

What does Canada produce ?  Besides hockey players .  There is Pamela Anderson. She's a U.S. citizen now. Oh, there is Justin Bieber, please take him back.

The only things Canada export to U.S. are hockey players, cold fronts and Canadian geese that crap all over our golf courses.

Any Canadian with some sense moves to the U.S. .  Eh !

Almost forgot you have one helluva Olympic Curling Team. 

What about your leader Justin Trudeau . . . one scandal after another.  Plus Trudeau the racist does a great blackface. 

But you're just fine with China covering up a viral outbreak that could have been contained to a regional event so they can buy up all the supplies in the world. Sick.

How's that Western Canadian Select oil selling. It cost more to buy a Molson beer than a barrel of that crap.  Canadian oil industry R.I.P.

Enough said.

 

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When the hell do we get out of the U.N. for crying out loud!  China just joined the U.N. Human Rights Council?  WHA?  And that's Chinese for What the ****?  Then some Ohio Rep. knucklehead is pulling a bill together to bring Trump to The Hague?   Okay, now we've gone totally into Bizzaroland.  If Trump loses in November, can we see a Biden presidency run by Pelosi, AOC, et al.?

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1 hour ago, Enthalpic said:

Yet you need them and you claim them as your own (Made in America scum?).  trump is scum for telling them not to ship to Canada - WTF did Canada do to deserve that?  Other nations will retaliate - no medication for you!

 

 

Oh PLEASE!  Your leader who is in his 24th day of his 14 day self-quarantine is short of vital supplies to help his own country because your great leader sent a huge amount to China in the last days before the CCP said "oh, by the way, that virus we told you about, oops, it's out of control and oops it has human to human contact".  Did he actually ask anyone if this virus would become a problem since the information was coming from the liars of the world who, by the way, RUN The W.H.O.

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1 hour ago, BLA said:

What does Canada produce ?  Besides hockey players .  There is Pamela Anderson. She's a U.S. citizen now. Oh, there is Justin Bieber, please take him back.

The only things Canada export to U.S. are hockey players, cold fronts and Canadian geese that crap all over our golf courses.

Any Canadian with some sense moves to the U.S. .  Eh !

Almost forgot you have one helluva Olympic Curling Team. 

What about your leader Justin Trudeau . . . one scandal after another.  Plus Trudeau the racist does a great blackface. 

But you're just fine with China covering up a viral outbreak that could have been contained to a regional event so the can buy up all the supplies in the world. Sick.

How's that Western Canadian Select oil selling. It cost more to buy a Molson beer than a barrel of that crap.  Canadian oil industry R.I.P.

Enough said.

 

 

Chill out, enjoy some legal marijuana and watch Austin powers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_comedians

Fry a pancake in canola oil and put lots of maple syrup on it. When you get diabetes remember we discovered insulin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Banting

Oh the wood fibre that 3M uses for their north American production comes from British Columbia. Want some?

https://www.timescolonist.com/business/nanaimo-mill-churning-out-pulp-for-medical-masks-gowns-1.24106220

Stay classy

V

 

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Admit trump was wrong trying to tell 3M to not send us masks. 

Thankfully 3M has level minds unlike the POTUS and his yes-men or "you're fired" entourage

 

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When your shale industry burns to the ground like everything else trump touches you will be begging for more pipelines to suck down sweet Canadian syncrude.

 

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