THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY BLOCKED DISCLOSURE OF TRADE DATA, HELPING CONCEAL THE AIRLIFT OF N95 MASKS FROM THE U.S. TO CHINA
IN THE FIRST months of the Covid-19 outbreak — when U.S. hospitals faced a critical shortage of protective gear and exposed front-line medical workers to needless risk — hundreds of tons of medical face masks were loaded onto planes at U.S. airports and flown to China and other destinations for foreign buyers.
While the masks were shipped abroad, the U.S. government failed to address the growing crisis, leaving states to scramble to obtain medical gear as third-party distributors hiked prices and began selling what turned out to be defective masks. While the Trump administration moved slowly to secure needed supplies, some in the Commerce Department even encouraged the export of masks as the disease spread.
The full scale and scope of what happened — including the types of masks shipped, prices, and the destinations for the shipments — are still shrouded in mystery. That’s because detailed disclosures of the airlifts are hidden from public view by the federal government. U.S. Customs and Border Protection only allows public disclosure of detailed cargo data for shipments sent and received by sea, not by air. And almost every crate of face masks destined for foreign markets went by air freight, concealing the full picture of the flow of masks from public view.
The reason for the opaque trade rules? Little-known political maneuvering by the airline industry and its lobbyists on Capitol Hill, which slipped a provision designed to override disclosure requirements into a 1996 law on tariffs. Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/29/ppe-china-export-airlifts/
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It is the arsonist who stops by the fire department to disable the vehicles before going on their way to start the fire. There is literally a mountain of evidence indicating direct interference with mitigation.
China and NKorea had already declared it for sure to have been a Bioweapon attack by then. (And from whom it was obvious)
So seems to be mocking and cynical gesture of “humanitarian aid'” to China, after deploying the jacked up flu virus into Wuhan.
The masks being worn to no effect while Chinese victims suffocate to death from SARS piggybacked into the flu virus.
Almost like the decapitated horse head in godfather movie.
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