Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by _gccu 2292 days ago
A flight is 12 hours. Considering it's a highly urgent need for a very unique circumstance... we're not shipping, IDK, keychains or something.
1 comments

Bulky non-perishable packaged manufactured goods are not shipped by air! It would add quite a bit to the cost of this gesture to rent out three 747s for shipping it.

This is pointless. If the fastest shipping method available took a month, you'd be imagining crafty sick Chinese people stowed away, breathing on the masks for the entire journey. You have a sickness, but it may not be COVID-19...

You realize that there are countries that are in complete lockdown, right? These are not normal, but very serious times. If all a country had to do was pay for the use of 3 full 747s, for a mere 12 hour flight, to get a solution to save countless lives .. sounds logical to me that they'd expedite the delivery.

Due to the fact that is a very serious, urgent, global pandemic. <-- re-read the last four words in that sentence, but slowly.

It blows my mind that during this global crisis, you think that it would take a whole month just to transport life saving medical / health equipment. We're not talking about shipping handbag accessories on Amazon's third party marketplace here, Nancy.

As suggested by others, you do have a sick mind. Why don't you simply propose that people just quarantine the masks in a stock room for 72 hours instead?
Name calling will get you far in life. Have a great day!

/End of pointless conversation with you/