“We’re just a small boat with very limited capacity,” said the organizer of a volunteer group. “People came to us because they know the highway that’s supposed to move fast has a big black hole on it.” That “big black hole” is the Red Cross Society of China.https://twitter.com/LiYuan6/status/1229776489182367752 …
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Ordinary Chinese people have set up social media groups to help patients find hospital beds, get volunteers to drive them to hospitals and scavenge the world for protective gear. In coordination with the government, they could do much more.
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If the Red Cross Society is a bottleneck in distributing medical supplies,the local¢ral gov'ts can become obstacles in private efforts to make,purchase and distribute these supplies. The frustration and exasperation of ordinary Chinese who try to help:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/business/china-coronavirus-charity-supplies.html …
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