I think you're being naive @KT53. They don't have spare capacity! Not without putting their own people at risk from being too close to others and not having their own PPE while they work or else at the cost of depriving their own health and care workers of the PPE they need - all in the name of profit!!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Setting aside the moral and ethical arguments (not that I disagree with them) @Obelixx and @KT53, there are two principal reasons why importing PPE from outside the EU is not advisable.
1. The EU have rigorous quality/H&S requirements to guarantee the effectiveness of PPE to ensure the protection of health care professionals and other essential workers. There is no guarantee that imports from the developing world can or will comply with these, therefore potentially putting front line staff and the public at risk.
2. Taking the UK as an example, there is no shortage of PPE manufacturers willing to supply, and ramp up production and distribution to supply, the necessary PPE. Many UK-based PPE suppliers have been lobbying, nay pleading, with Government and the health service to allow them to help and to tell them what products are required and in what quantity. The only reason UK PPE suppliers are exporting UK-manufactured PPE is because of a deafening silence/extremely slow response if they get one/insistence on maintaining the normal EU procurement process - when the rest of the EU is ignoring the latter, because we are not in normal circumstances.
Thanks very much for that recent shipment of PPE to Spain, btw, much appreciated.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
My point is, I would like to know the name of and what qualifies the person to make the statement rather than "Experts say". Much the same as "statistics prove" "eight out of 10 cat owners...." "dentists recommend" " kills up to 100% of... "
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1. The EU have rigorous quality/H&S requirements to guarantee the effectiveness of PPE to ensure the protection of health care professionals and other essential workers. There is no guarantee that imports from the developing world can or will comply with these, therefore potentially putting front line staff and the public at risk.
2. Taking the UK as an example, there is no shortage of PPE manufacturers willing to supply, and ramp up production and distribution to supply, the necessary PPE. Many UK-based PPE suppliers have been lobbying, nay pleading, with Government and the health service to allow them to help and to tell them what products are required and in what quantity. The only reason UK PPE suppliers are exporting UK-manufactured PPE is because of a deafening silence/extremely slow response if they get one/insistence on maintaining the normal EU procurement process - when the rest of the EU is ignoring the latter, because we are not in normal circumstances.
Thanks very much for that recent shipment of PPE to Spain, btw, much appreciated.
Why does a news article containing these words make me come over all cynical?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-52358036
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border