chapotraphouse

Nurses were wearing trash bags while people paid $100 for homemade ineffective hand sanitiser on ebay because the basic supplies required to respond to the pandemic at any level couldn't be sourced domestically.

The Chinese embassies were handing out food and PPE to medical workers in the US. American media and pundits got very angry because the workers were thanking the Chinese workers on social media. The media denounced it as “medical propaganda” or some shit.

Municipal utility companies warned that they had no supplies to respond to infrastructure damage because they couldn't source them domestically

I remember how the US banned Huawei from telecommunications in the US, but the problem is that a lot of rural areas rely on it because it provides cheap internet infrastructure for an otherwise poorer, isolated area. The US demanded they replace it with American equipment which was significantly more expensive because of contractors, and the federal government didn’t provide enough funds to even take down all the Huawei stuff let alone replace it all