Originally Posted by
stimpy
Sorry if I wasn't clear, but in the west we simply do not have masks. I have one single mask myself, but I'm saving it for when I might actually need it. You cannot buy masks here as the shops are sold out. The hospitals are hoarding what they have. Hopefully the mask producers can whip up a hundred billion more masks ASAP.
Those don't have to be N95 masks. Foxconn in China and Sharp in Japan set up production lines to produce surgical style masks. Judging by the price point before this recent surge, they're much cheaper to produce than N95 masks.