“Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.” You think China can't manufacture good quality mask, a simple mask? You people really are that arrogant?
It’s worse than that. They believe it’s a Chinese conspiracy. One of the few countries to control the spread, but the tests they distribute will be ‘tainted’ and ‘ineffective’.
You put words in my mouth. My concern isn't that it's not "good quality". My concern is, the thing is literally coming from the country where the virus originated from to begin with. Presumably, these things were made with human hands, of people in China, .. the country where this all started. So, ... you're telling me, you're just going to blindly assume these products have ZERO trace of the virus without any verification?
Right now, 99% of active cases are outside of China. If you're worried about shipments from China, you should be 100x as worried about shipments from Europe. Or, for that matter, a different state in the US.
Another point: if you're also an Asian living in the United States, spending all day whipping up anti-Chinese sentiment online is not going to help you. If you succeed, you're going to be treated just as badly as me, because they can't tell the difference between us. If you think you can get away free by just being really, really American, you're hopelessly naive. I'm excessively American myself, and it hasn't helped me one bit.
I've visited senators and representatives and they called me a threat to this country, to my face, knowing full well that I was a US citizen.
Maybe you've had less experience with politicians. Maybe you look less Asian. Maybe you're just naive. I can't know which it is, but I'm sure they think the same of you as me.
You realize that you're the racist here for pulling the race card, right? I'm not on your side just because you're Asian. I'm interested in the general well being of ALL people, Asian or not, in the US. I'm sorry you were mistreated, but you made a wrong assumption that I am, or that I will, and you're trying to get me to be on your "side"? I don't like presumptuous people.
Pls read what's known about this virus survivability outside of hosts body before you assume that item touched by infected person is "tainted" forever.
So, if you do the thing you suggested yourself, and NOT infer an assumption of a geopolitically motivated act coming from me, you will see that my logic as stated in point 1 and 2 is actually pragmatic and logical.
Assume no malicious intention.
How about we even assume that we paid for this stuff and Jack Ma didn't just hand it out for free. This is to remove your bias that a charitable gesture from someone, so that these products won't escape basic sensible scrutiny.
Are you seriously going to use the products to aid in this national emergency, that was literally made in the country that this virus originated from ... without testing it at all to verify that it is free of the virus that started it all?
I personally did not refute your logic because it doesn't matter if it's correct or not. It assumes falsehood and leads to "garbage" conclusions. Why would anyone want to consider what implication chain have you constructed between false and false?