Last week, I received a package at my home in New York from a kind Chinese friend in Beijing. It contained medical personal protective equipment, including highly sought-after N95 respirator masks (not all masks are created equal: some only protect people from exhaling the virus, rather than inhaling it — the N95 protects from both). “It’s easier to get PPE here,” my friend explained, noting that he had been horrified to hear about the dire shortages in the US (as well as other countries such as the UK) — and had sent the package in sympathy.
上个星期，我在纽约的家里收到了一个包裹，是一位好心的manbetx3.0 朋友从北京寄来的。里面有医用个人防护设备(PPE)，包括极其抢手的N95呼吸防护口罩——口罩也有三六九等，有些口罩只防护人们不呼出病毒，而不防护人们不吸入病毒，N95口罩这两种都防护。我的朋友解释道：“这边比较容易搞到个人防护装备。”他说，听说美国——以及英国等国——严重短缺个人防护装备时，他被吓坏了，于是同情地给我寄来了包裹。