13.6mil isn't quite enough for the dust free equipments.

2019 was a bad year for the pigs in China. The African Swine flu took out a lot of pigs,
roughly 1/4 of the world population of all pigs. The financial loss is said to be around $141 billion.
For those who might be interesting, here is one of the links:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/opinion/china-swine-fever.html

Pork price went double to triple the usual price, it was a reminder of how important flu detection and prevention.
So when COVID appeared, there was a lot of hardware and people in the field to find out what was going on.

Back in January 20, when epidemic experts confirmed the new unknown virus can spread human to human,
Hong Kong citizens responded immediately. In 3 days, face mask and hand sanitizer all sold out. Roughly
the same time, over 90% people wear mask, that included the most stubborn senior citizens. And there
wasn't an outbreak in Hong Kong at the time.

Citizens responded to the experts, not the Government.

Tie a knot to the end of the rubber band might help, when it is loose, the mask slides down which has to be pulled up again and again.

When 50% of the face mask was produced in China, Taiwan 30%, Korean and Japan takes up a large part of the remaining.
If you want face mask, you call your supplier.

"Hello Chinaman, I want 10 million face mask quick".
"Sorry buyer, there is an export ban, I can sell nothing, have a nice day".

Similar answer from the other places too.

So, what's the point of telling people to use a face mask when you cannot supply them enough.

If the city cannot be lockdowned. New cases of COVID will appear fast. Either there is a shortage of ventilators
or shortage of medical staffs to use the ventilators.

In other parts of the world, lockdown is about the only solution.
But if the govt cannot control the people's feet. At least the govt should control their hands.

This virus is transmitted by contact. The patients cough virus to their hands and then offset printing the virus
to every surface they touch. So if someone comes along to touch the door knob, the handrail or the fork in the buffet lunch,
he/she picks up the virus. Would it help to put on a glove?

No, the virus is offset printed to the surface of the glove. Not much different from touching bare hands. Which has to be sanitized.

The community should aware that this form of transmission has to be stopped. So people send out teams of people with a
huge spray bottle to spray here and there. But the gap between sprays is still too wide to stop the issue.

I would like to suggest ordering people to wear a glove that could sanitize. Such as putting on a nitrile glove and then a thin
cotton glove on top of the nitrile. The cotton glove is then sprayed with sanitizing solution. Now when people turn a
door knob they sanitize it, the more they touch, the less overall virus surface in the community. The glove should be designed
to be highly visible for Police to spot check. And when the sanitizing solution dries up, the color of the glove changes.

Anyone on the street must wear the glove, for those who refuses, a heavy fine.

Then again, transmission by touch is not the only mean. Face mask is necessary too.

If people pour money into buying face mask or gown that the factory cannot produce fast enough.
They should first keep people's hands clean. And it is running out of time. The number of new patients is increasing exponentially.

A $25 Gift card promotes more visit to work. Making it a multiple risk at this time of pandemic crisis.
A gift pack of eye protection, face mask, hand glove, hand sanitizer is more useful.
If you're in New York, the area along subway line had the most casualties. One can expect
everything you touch there is contaminated.

Right now these Uber cars should have installed a glass pane between the front and the back seats,
like those taxis in London which could be seen in old black and white movies.
There were a few cases of our local taxi drivers contracted the virus possibly through passengers not wearing a mask.
Then people are not taking the taxi fearing the taxi driver is giving them the virus.

Am I looking at the eyes of a fly?

But at least, you know, the Chinese don't greet with hug and kiss each other.

c/$1.3 million/1.3 million/

Try look at the size of the quarantine area. For example here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Hubei_lockdowns
The quarantine affected roughly 57 million people in the Hubei province.
The size of Hubei is about 1/2 of California.

That might be true to sale conference.

The most recent out break in Korea involves churchgoers.
Over 100+ identified cases could be traced back from a single person
who carry the virus.

Some drugs might cure better than the other. But when it hits, it is spreading fast.
The quarantine area in China right now is about the size of California.

When it hits. The first thing to do is to go out the buy the face mask.
It will be the first thing sold out in the coming month. Every drug store in the
neighborhood put out the sign, SOLD OUT.

Next, stock about 1 litre of rubbing alcohol for each person in the house.
Rubbing alcohol is the next item sold out.

Next buy the 30ml spray bottle. These tiny bottle was everywhere, then when
the day came, it was found nowhere in sight. SOLD OUT again.

Anything touched by the patient will have some virus. The hand rail along the
staircase, the buttons in the lift. Knife and fork in the restaurant. When in doubt
wipe it with alcohol. Next you'll find your in doubt all day long.

Over half the virus carrier has no sign of fever, so screening people with state of the
art thermometer is not helpful. So, remember to wash your hands before eating,
clean the keyboard if it might be used by others.