https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/04/fda-prevents-import-of-masks.html
Another gate-keeper function that needs to be suspended.
MR: FDA Prevents Import of Masks
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Interesting discussions follow your MR post. It COULD change your mind about suspension. Just wondering of you take the time to read some of the commentary under your posts. Sometimes they are ore enlightening than the post itself.
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RE: “Just wondering of you take the time to read some of the commentary under your posts.”
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. In this case, it wouldn’t have made any difference, since the writer’s point is about more than sources of supply only. The legal consequences of the KN95 ban were probably unintended, but also undesirable.
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This has changed now:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/490960-fda-says-it-will-not-block-imports-of-kn95-masks-from-china-amid-ppe
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/the-fda-now-says-it-will-allow-imports-of-kn95-masks-an
It is now moot. The MR piece referenced an older Buzzfeed article from last weekend, 3/29.
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Suspended??
How about ended forever. Al Qaida in its wildest dreams could not kill as many Americans as the FDA bureaucracy does on a routine basis.
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Yada, yada, yada. Translation : A comment about nothing.
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