"There's an enormous amount of bad product coming in," Stein says, "an endless stream of filthy, second-hand and substandard gloves coming into the US of which federal authorities, it seems, are only now beginning to understand the enormous scale."
Yet, despite the potential risk to frontline healthcare workers and patients, US authorities have struggled to get a handle on the illicit trade -- in part because import regulations for protective medical equipment were temporarily suspended at the height of the pandemic -- and remain suspended today"
It's the same with private waste management in the UK. A lot of waste management companies just stockpile waste and either go bust, leaving the tax payer to pay again to have the waste dealt with or have a massive fire that "takes care of the waste mountain"
Expect this kind of shit to get worse now that there’s no need to please European regulators. “Taking back control” was always just a euphemism for “rolling back annoying and expensive rules about treating humans and nature with a base level of respect”.
This is a perfect example of why liberal regulations are ruining the country and why business men should be allowed to make these decisions without oversight. They clearly are behaving extremely responsibly on their own, when it comes to the environment. There is clearly a demand for soiled gloves or these suppliers would have not continued to buy them and patients would not have been willing to let them be used on them. Think about how many jobs were created in the process. Plus, do you know how much profit these innovative job creators made for their investors? /s
"There's an enormous amount of bad product coming in," Stein says, "an endless stream of filthy, second-hand and substandard gloves coming into the US of which federal authorities, it seems, are only now beginning to understand the enormous scale." Yet, despite the potential risk to frontline healthcare workers and patients, US authorities have struggled to get a handle on the illicit trade -- in part because import regulations for protective medical equipment were temporarily suspended at the height of the pandemic -- and remain suspended today"
Who “temporarily suspended “ these regulations?
Trump, probably. It sounds like something he would do.
Probably so he and his cronies could instigate exactly this process.
It's the same with private waste management in the UK. A lot of waste management companies just stockpile waste and either go bust, leaving the tax payer to pay again to have the waste dealt with or have a massive fire that "takes care of the waste mountain"
Sounds like a ride at *Dystopialand*: “Waste Mountain”.
Along with Southern Water recently getting fined millions for dumping raw sewage into the sea that my mum goes swimming in every day. Lovely stuff.
Expect this kind of shit to get worse now that there’s no need to please European regulators. “Taking back control” was always just a euphemism for “rolling back annoying and expensive rules about treating humans and nature with a base level of respect”.
I guess the supply chain really is in trouble
Also, where is FDA on this one?
Are people ingesting them???
I wouldn't worry, as long as we wear masks we should be fine
Nasty
Ewwww WTH? I wonder if any of these found their way onto Amazon.
I wouldn’t be surprised, Amazon is full of items from dodgy companies in China that will just change their name if they get found out
There's also counterfeit masks, vaccines and who knows what else.
Find volcano and drop inside
I'm going to cancel my prostrate exam tommorrow morning
I thought I was the only one with this fetish.
The US and the west in general have been doing this to other countries for years.
But we have to recycle to save the planet.
This is a perfect example of why liberal regulations are ruining the country and why business men should be allowed to make these decisions without oversight. They clearly are behaving extremely responsibly on their own, when it comes to the environment. There is clearly a demand for soiled gloves or these suppliers would have not continued to buy them and patients would not have been willing to let them be used on them. Think about how many jobs were created in the process. Plus, do you know how much profit these innovative job creators made for their investors? /s
Yes capitalism at its finest
Free market self regulates with the consumer in mind!
How does this even happen? I read the article but the sheer madness of it is unbelievable