It seemed like an offer that couldn’t be refused. Georgia would be able to get a million medical masks from Shanghai. “I have a businessman,’’ the sender wrote, “that can get an airplane full of medical mask (sic) every other day.”
While the coronavirus has hit the United States with a vengeance, some lucky cities have escaped unharmed thus far. However, even if your city has 0 or few known cases, the threat COVID-19 poses remains large. We all need to be prepared for the next phase of this pandemic that’s looming around the corner, which will likely spread more widely within states, hitting areas that have so far been unscathed.
Acute shortages of respirators and face masks reveal that our far-flung sourcing of goods is unfit to deal with a prolonged pandemic or other widespread, long-lasting crisis.
Tempers are getting short. Supplies of ground beef even shorter. People are looking into each other’s shopping carts. Is that guy really going to use all four cans of chickpeas? That’s a lot of emergency hummus.
A professor with the Stewart school of engineering at Georgia tech, she's with this from Atlanta. Thank you for being with us. We heard the U.S. President on Monday, he's adamant to force the country to reopen. Listen to part of what he said during a regular U.S. Briefing.
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