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littlemissmartypants

(22,695 posts) Wed Mar 18, 2020, 07:34 AM Mar 2020

Donations Arrive from Jack Ma

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma tweeted for the first time ever to say he's started shipping 1 million masks and 500,000 coronavirus testing kits to the US

https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-ma-twitter-million-masks-coronavirus-testing-kits-us-2020-3?amp&__twitter_impression=true

The first shipment of masks and coronavirus test kits to the US is taking off from Shanghai. All the best to our friends in America. 🙏 https://t.co/LTn26gvlOl

Link to tweet

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Looks like it lands in Chicago from Anchorage at 11:45am tomorrow. (Yesterday?)

Link to tweet

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These items supposedly arrived recently, like this morning or last night* and will be distributed by the CDC. Am I the only one who thinks we will never see them or they'll be on the black market in months after society collapses or fat Nixon and his merry band of grifters aka his son in law et. al. will take the donations and sell them for a profit. I'm feeling so jaded.

*Yesterday Chicago @ 1145

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Donations Arrive from Jack Ma (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Mar 2020 OP

oh they will be distributed and trump* will take cred for it samnsara Mar 2020 #1

Good on Jack Bigredhunk Mar 2020 #2

samnsara

(17,623 posts)

1. oh they will be distributed and trump* will take cred for it

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Wed Mar 18, 2020, 07:39 AM

Mar 2020

Bigredhunk

(1,351 posts)

2. Good on Jack

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Wed Mar 18, 2020, 07:47 AM

Mar 2020

Still pisses me off that sites like Amazon & Ebay are allowing the sale of masks at all. Amazon should remove all 3rd party selling of masks and only sell them themselves.

It seems if the seller(s) keep from referencing Coronavirus in their listing they can do what they please. I just saw someone selling 80 3M N95's for $1500 on Amazon. Home Depot has them listed (although out of stock, of course) for between $80-$90.

From what I saw most sellers are trying to charge ten-to-twelve times the usual selling price. These jerkoffs went around to every home improvement store over the past month or so and bought out the entire stock. Now they're profiteering during a pandemic.

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