There was a short update on N-TV (commercial German news) that concerned Covid masks.
So back in the spring of 2020....the German government came out with a mandate....roughly 10 days, and you'd have to wear masks in x-number of activities. Germans....didn't have the masks.
About six weeks prior to this.....I kinda guessed that such an event would occur and went to Amazon to buy surgical masks for what I considered a decent price (roughly 22 Euro) for a box of them.
Once the mandate occurred, within a couple of days.....I reviewed the new pricing on Amazon.....literally nothing less than thirty, and most were going for 45 to 55 Euro for the same box.
The German government at this point.....knowing at this point of a massive shortage....went out and did some crappy logistical deals. Literally thousands of pallets were procured in thousands of different ways.
Today, the German government announced that a huge amount of the collected masks....will be destroyed.
Reason? The masks had expiration dates, and they've reached the dates. Some were noted as inferior masks (not meeting standards). So the value of what is to be destroyed? ONE-BILLION EURO.
Yeah....it's a fair sum of value.
Massive anger coming out of this? Yeah, I'll predict that this gets to a pretty nasty state of discussion.
Did they have a chief of mask distribution or mask purchase? No....there's no indicator of one single guy running this.
It's just another comical side of the virus, and how politicians were behind the power-curve from day one on.
A magnificent 'burn' to occur? They probably will assign this to some contractor group....paying them two or three million Euro to collect the masks, and burn them. (my humble guess)
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