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Originally Posted by ikalugin
Meanwhile Russian companies report like 100 fold increase in FFP2 mask production rates, backed by massive centralised state order and 1 percent interest loans, and many non specialised companies are now producing cloth facial masks and the like.
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Then your leaders acted more clever than ours on that FFP issue.
Clotch masks are beign done over here now, too, but they are more for public moral or propaganda.Their protection value is not convincing: niot by what we now know about the virus and behaviour of aerosols.
Germany, I red an hour ago, has estalbished cklinf od an air lift to China and will get 40 million masks in the coming two weeks, one airlifter per day.
Chinese mask manufacturers can dictate conditions and prices at will currently. And they do. 50% payment in advance, else negotiations are not even started. Quality varies widely, from clinical standard to totally useless. Some nations have complained to have gotten "clinical" masks made of underwear.
FFP masks are the new gold for the time being.