shylok wrote: ↑
I'm just glad there's better stock this time around
There is TONS and TONS of stock, everywhere. I import these from China and my next shipment is landing in about a week for $120 a case of 40 boxes...($3.00) per box of 50.
What is IMPOSSIBLE to find is LATEX GLOVES. Seems all the factories in China switched to making surgical masks, leaving a shortage of gloves...
Curiosity wrote: ↑
There is TONS and TONS of stock, everywhere. I import these from China and my next shipment is landing in about a week for $120 a case of 40 boxes...($3.00) per box of 50.
What is IMPOSSIBLE to find is LATEX GLOVES. Seems all the factories in China switched to making surgical masks, leaving a shortage of gloves...
Arrghhh...
I would say 95% who wear gloves don't even know why/ wear them properly. It's safer to NOT wear gloves and wash your hands regularly.
sheyenne wrote: ↑
I would expect the price of these masks to be very temporary. We already saw an increase in the hoarding of paper products within the last few days. Everyone is expecting the second wave to be much harder than the first. And the first vaccines aren't going to be very effective either.
Hard to store yes because of the coldness requirements, but otherwise, for most vaccines in development so far, things are actually looking very good. The ones most advanced in development all produced antibodies in 98%+ people, and successfully prevented monkeys from getting infected, except the AstraZeneca vaccine which (at the dosage given to monkeys at the time), did not prevent infection but prevented any serious complications for all the monkeys who received it.
And even if Moderna and Pfizer vaccines will be more complicated to deploy, soon after there are Novavax and Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca which will not have such a stringent cold storage requirement.
