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“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 …

Front line doctors and nurses wear disposable raincoats instead of protective gowns. They wear adult diapers because, once they take off their one-piece protective suits, the suits will have to be thrown away. They only get one per day.

Meanwhile, medical supplies donated to the Red Cross Society sit unused in warehouses.Officials in Xiantao, a city 70 miles from Wuhan and one of the world’s biggest manufacturing centers for protective supplies, ordered factories there to cease operations.

Big Chinese corporations and wealthy individuals have been donating, many generously. But they also try to keep low profiles for fear of offending a government that is eager to take credit for any success and quick to suspect outside groups of challenging it.

“The traditional management mechanism of ‘big gov't’ is no longer efficient, and is even failing,” a management consultant wrote. “The gov't is very busy but not effective. The social forces aren’t being utilized because they can only stand on the sideline, watching anxiously.”