Germany is one of those places where you typically DON'T see people wearing facial masks in public. When you do see folks wearing them....it's typically Asian folks on vacation in Germany.
So the topic came up via ZDF (public TV, Channel Two) today.
They noted that a trend has started up in the German public where regular Germans are wearing the masks.
They've also noted that the masks have been sold out in most German pharmacies over the past week or two.
So this brought up an interesting side-subject....the spokesman for the German Association of German Pharmacists' Associations (ABDA) stood up in the past week and said the majority of masks on sale in Germany would NOT offer any real protection against the new virus anyway.
Cost escalating? That's another topic as well. A typical kit of N-95 masks would have fetched (Five in a box) for around 40 Euro six months ago. Today, it's near 65 to 85 Euro per box. Same for the cheaper surgerical masks (no real protection for this type of situation)....they've gone from 20-odd Euro for a box of fifty masks, to 39 Euro in a matter of a month.
If you'd stocked up on a ten-thousand of these cheapo mask boxes (50 per box) back six months ago, you'd clear a small fortune now.
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