Take that one with a giant bucket of salt
it's the sun though
so not sure
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8137039/French-border-guards-impound-trucks-filled-130-000-face-masks-bound-Britain.html
"After realising what was on board, border guards in France held the lorry in the wake of President Emmanuel Macron’s promise to ‘requisition’ face masks for the French crisis."
https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/03/21/french-police-in-bid-to-confiscate-130000-face-masks-bound-for-uk-nhs-doctors-and-nurses-battling-the-coronavirus/
Euroweekly too so seems to be potentially legit, I want to know what the UK is going to do to ensure this wont happen again.
fuck me, if that's true
send the army in
I'd also like to know if the masks were purchased from France, or from another country heading through France and then impounded
It only says "attempted" though
because that is piracy
did they actually seize the masks?
https://imgur.com/wSVwL33
No idea, the Sun says it was and daily mail, the EU one says attempted
so who the fuck knows then
Wouldn't it be nice if the BBC actually did investigative journalism on this kind of thing
it would be nice to trust our national broadcaster in such times of crisis
Apparently the face mask seizure was a "misunderstanding"
Just like the trucks of hand sanitizer they stopped yesterday
Stonks https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1241374127254110209?s=19
I'm pretty sure this wasnt an increase in demand
From what I've been told stock is being rationed out
In the shops
I think what we are seeing is people increasingly desperate to get supplies from major supermarkets
That are lowering offerings/supplies driving further panic
Just raise prices through the roof ffs
The government won't let them
I told people price gouging is good, even in a situation like this, but they don't wanna listen cause "fuck you capitalist pig"
Depends, price as a method to balance supply and demand is good
People hoarding and buying to resell at a profit isn't so good
There's no difference
There is
It's literally the same thing, only the money goes elsewhere
No it isn't, it doesn't matter who sells
No, it's different or I wouldn't have been able to describe it
No it's not different, only who profits is different
Bruh
End this fuckry
No
It's different
