Who STOLE all the masks?

well good afternoon everybody and welcome today we're going to be hearing Florida mosques will Florida mask woman's side of the story I should say I've received emails and have been in correspondence with her husband so I'll be going through that with all of you and we will also be taking a deeper dive into why it is that you cannot find masks in your local pharmacy your local hardware store and even your local clinics and hospitals have a shortage so I thought we just get started anyone who has been following this story out of Florida will know who I'm talking about here we have a situation where hmm in fact we covered this yesterday in depth so I'm not going to repeat myself there there's a lot of good things that we said yesterday in the ADV podcasts video so suggest that you all go and take a look I will once this video is done I will link it in the pin the comment and also in the description but this is the woman who we talked about yesterday everybody knows she is on camera bragging about how she has bought all of the masks out of the Home Depot there and that she's driven 1.5 hours away from where they live to this place and she says you know not many Chinese people live here so they're still masks defined and she brags about buying out everything and in front of the staff she laughs and says they still don't know that there's a limit on purchasing of masks and she gets very happy about it and tells everyone how she's so nervous she's sweating and she feels like a thief and all of that kind of stuff but we're going to get to the bottom of this and in fact after we hear the side of the story from them I'm going to give you a little bit more commentary on the whole thing so when we spoke about this yesterday I received an email from her husband and her husband is actually apparently a longtime follower of both my channel and adb China and I well I advised him against this but he wanted to share side of the story so I asked him to send an email so that I could share it with everyone but at the same time I cautioned him and told him that you know what when you've got a situation like this because right now they're facing a lot of hate of course from both sides of the fence here Chinese netizens are attacking them Americans are pissed off an upset with them and I explained to him that in situations like this trying to defend yourself very often will result in the opposite thing happening and you'll actually just add fuel to this fire I think I did by mistake sorry about that guys my mistake I obviously clicked their own thing so mmm we are now back and what we're going to do is we're going to read this letter so I cautioned him against this but unfortunately or fortunately he decided that he wanted to share his story I understand he's under a lot of pressure right now from all sides so I'm going to read it and we're going to give you some commentary okay first of all his name is Michael and he says so a little bit about us I'm Michael she goes by Sasha which is my wife's name - strangely enough and our three-year-old son I'm not gonna share their son's name he's got no part in this and I feel it's immoral so I'm not going to he said I'm retired and the majority of our income comes from that and my military disability compensation she is under no pressure to earn money so her selling accounts are just to keep her busy so you see this a lot with Chinese the Chinese diaspora around the world is if they don't have a lot to do and they want to keep busy they run small little businesses like this there's parallel trading which is called Daigo and you know students do it people that are just on tourist visas do it I guess in this case a bored housewife does it or just somebody who wants to keep themselves busy and so he's kind of saying that they don't rely on that money but it's what she does in her spare time okay says our son is the main feature of her channel so having him in a video was not unusual because yesterday we spoke about how she was using her son to gain sympathy and ask for help against all these attacks that she's been getting I'm not sure if you knew the date of the video was January 29 at that time the virus was believed to been isolated to China okay now there are a couple of things I want to say about this if you were an avid fellow of mine or if you a longtime follower you would have seen that before January 29 I was already posting on how important it was and how difficult it was to find masks I was already talking if you go back you can look at videos on my channel ADV China a TV podcasts and lo 86 and on all of those channels before this video was uploaded by her we were talking about the fact that you couldn't find masks they were being sold out by the dye go everywhere so you know this is something that even back then and in fact by January 29 we already had cases in America of the Wuhan flu or the covert 19 and in South Korea and Japan and all starting all over the world actually anyway of course we didn't know how bad it would be at that point but it had started okay so he says mm hmm and get back to it okay at that time the virus was believed to have been isolated to China the government reports said that America was prepared which is of course something that I agree was very incorrect it was an incorrect assumption and it was because of all the misinformation from the World Health Organization and of course China that led the rest of the world to believe that they wouldn't be threatened by this virus the fact of the matter is them again we're going to get into this later it doesn't matter the the the the act of taking every last mask off the shelf is depriving anyone who needs those whether it's to do with the pandemic or not I mean contractors going to the Home Depot to buy those masks because they work with carpentry or they they need to wear those respirators those masks when they're sanding things down or dealing with any kind of particulate matter so average everyday Americans just trying to do their work will be hampered because they can no longer buy them because there are none left so whether whether or not Scott to do with the pandemic or nuts not really the point it's it's the action of these Daigo which we're going to get into later anyway he asked me to omit something there so I've been omitted it but basically he says that they care about the people of China so people in China they they were begging for masks and we did what we could we cannot afford to just give them away but we did not profit from it you know here's the thing it was opportunism just like old aegyo when you see something that's in demand you jump though they jump on it and they will buy every last one because they know there's money to be made and as you'll see later in this and also the video I mean the thumbnails of the pictures that he provided as proof which we'll talk about in a minute you can see that she was selling them for you know a profit and the the thing is they were sold they were all sold to China so it's not like they snapped them up so that they could send them off for charity or anything they were all snapped up and they were all sold to China anyway we'll get onto that later mmm says we did not profit from it yes but the idea was to profit from it the airlines began cutting flights to China and the prices for shipping skyrocketed while still being held by the shipping company we let them ship at a loss but that was okay so that's what I'm saying they were snatched up because they were going to be sold for a profit as we'll see later when we look at the price the prices that she put on her her Daigo adverts but once they were in the shipping company that's when things changed and of course the flights got started to get cancelled to and from China things were starting to ramp up so all of a sudden the shipping companies had to charge more so they didn't actually make a profit but that's not the point that the original intention was to make a profit now he says we ship via legitimate shipping companies and pay all state federal and foreign import taxes you know I'm not going to try and debunk this because maybe he maybe they do but I know for a fact that that she is advertising all these products in Chinese yen yen I should say and so probably receiving all the payments through WeChat or Chinese bank accounts something like that it's definitely not aboveboard from what I could see I mean we don't know it could be anyway we just have to kind of move on from that one I want to it's not working now we are we still alive okay let me uh let me start this where did it stop okay all right are we back sorry about this dude obviously there there's some some agents out there they're trying to put a stop to me is that is that yeah that's correct lots of interesting things with trade subsidies and stuff and it's not really aboveboard either way that's not for me to go out and try to disprove if you believe you're a hundred percent above board I'm going to just leave it at that and say that you're above board that's fine it still doesn't change the main message of why you have such a negative reaction to what has happened okay next he says as far what as what she said well the video has been edited quite a bit we are looking for the full original video to put the whole context out there now I've actually seen the full original video this was originally uploaded to Dalian which is tick-tock you know it's Chinese tick-tock in fact sorry tick-tock is American Dalian or Western Dalian that's what it really is and it hasn't been edited out of context and there are certain things that you cannot take out of context now I have a question for you Michael because I know that you're in you're in a tough position right now and by the way I'm not trying to make it worse I'm against any kind of addictive behavior and I'm going to right now call for anyone who's watching this video not to try and harass Michael and his wife because remember although she's now become the face of this Daigo movement she is but a drop in the ocean of Daigo she is a small part of a massive machine that we need to bring to a halt so please no vindictive attack against Michael and his family that's just uncalled for anyway sorry where was I going there um I want to ask you Michael do you understand Chinese can you understand what your wife is saying on camera and can you read what her posts say because as somebody like myself who can read Chinese and who can understand Chinese there is nothing lost in translation there's nothing that has been edited to make her look worse than what she made herself look absolutely 100% spot on what people are complaining about is exactly because of what she said so maybe she's telling you that she said something that she you know didn't but you know I've watched the video again and again because I want to give you the benefit of the doubt and unfortunately I don't think anything has been edited or cut up or changed ok says but she does unknown up to I think what not shed she does own up to what she said and apologizes ok let's that's a good step forward it was a bit of dark humor and now in retrospect it was the wrong thing to say everything in retrospect is the wrong thing to say unfortunately this is just you know you know the way the world works if you're going to be publishing things online and I know this you know personally you have to be very careful and especially if you're going to say the kind of things she said and you know the kind of behavior it's it's just not something you do and I think we've learned the hard way a union wife which is unfortunate for you and like I said I don't I don't envy your position right now and again I do not want people to guard and attack these guys you know I think they have learnt a very harsh lesson throughout this entire situation hmm he says but remember at the time things were different we had no idea stores wouldn't be able to restock now again would you go into a pharmacy and buy every last box of band-aids off of the shelf what what if a child cuts their finger and they rush into the pharmacy to get a band-aid and there isn't one this idea of emptying the shelves out and she's very proud of that in the video about getting every last box this is the issue it's not leaving anything behind and people can talk about capitalism and free trade and whatever they want to say but it's a moral issue at this point the carpenter who goes in there who's got come off his work beside his jobsite who needs a respirator because of a mosque because he's going back you know and he needs to wear it and he can't buy one and he drives around to ten different stores cuz there aren't any this person is affected now right now families who are in desperate need of these masks are affected medical professionals are affected it's becoming more and more apparent finally to the Western world that wearing a mask is a very important part of stopping the spread of this virus and it's got to the point where even the American news outlets etc are starting to encourage this too because for the longest time people have been trying to play it down and say you don't need a mask and I think the reason they're trying to do this is to make sure that the supply of masks remain there that the very few masks that are still here are left for the medical professionals who desperately need them so they don't want people running out and buying any that are left but they can't anyway because there are none left okay so anyway we had no idea the stores would not be able to restock also in Central Florida during January it can be still very hot and humid as sweating is normal sorry May but that's that's your wife said in Chinese she is nervous and she's sweating because she's nervous and she feels like a thief and I can understand the Chinese and she said she's sweating because she's nervous it's not got to do with the weather and maybe that's what she told you but if you can understand Chinese and you watch her video clearly that's not why she was sweating all right so I have to call you out on that one and I'm giving you the better benefit of the doubt here please understand I'm not trying to launch an attack against you because I do understand the situation you're in we didn't drive around the state looking to take all of them you can see our travel trailer we had camping reservations and we're on the way there to camp for the weekend we just took a short detour to the Home Depot to see what they had yeah I mean you're on the camping trip but one of the big priorities is to go and clean out the stores of masks because that's your wife's side business and that's what she's really interested in and if you watch the video you can tell that's her main motivation the camping is secondary at that point at least as far as I can tell mm-hmm there were lots of other Chinese buying them up and again even she says in her own video and this is something I pointed out yesterday the fact that she says there aren't many Chinese here in this you know Witch of a rural part of Florida you are in shows the entire world that this is a Chinese phenomenon it's something that is driven by China and it's something that's perpetrated by Chinese people it's not helping the image you have to understand we all know this is the case but we're trying to get to a position where we can stop this this whole Daigo industry without bringing more unwanted discrimination and hatred towards a certain group of people if you know what I mean anyway hmm and the shelves were already mostly empty when we arrived but I know how to look up at the very top racks and find the item numbers at least we released them so nobody else could hold them I mean that's that's a very weak justification because you didn't release them you sold them to China that's what she did so rather than allowing someone to hoard them as you say which would obviously then mean that there would be a supply here there would be a hole somewhere that the authorities could go and raid or which they starting to do now if anyone has been hoarding them or perhaps those people that hoarded them could then at least sell them to the local people they were sent to China which helps zero Americans you know you got to understand that this is where a lot of the anger is coming from so that I can't accept that that excuse the arrest there was a minor incident that the police got involved now this is something Michael sent me more than one email and he said that he's tired of people thinking his wife beats him up and abuses him and that's fair we don't know what happened and I'm not going to speculate either this is what he says there was a minor incident that the police got involved and Florida law requires people to be separated temporarily in such matters and how do police separate people jail overnight and that was it no charges were ever filed and we've become better together since then more power to you I mean I think if the police have to get involved to make your relationship better it's probably not ideal but at the same time if you have grown from this experience but well then and I'm not going to be here trying to further any conspiracy theories of how you're abused by your wife or anything like that because you know it's it's a private matter it's something that you guys deal with and probably have to deal with all the time and it's I I'm going to say it's incredibly unfortunate that something like that that sort of embarrassing kind of situation is now being thrust into the spotlight I do not envy you and I honestly feel very bad for you at the moment because of that it's it's not another pleasant thing okay we have been getting so much negative attention having our personal info shared cyber stalking someone even came to our house hindsight is always clearer than foresight and with the current situation I can understand the anger but back then we thought we were just what we were doing was helping again this is something I'm completely against being a victim of attacks myself constant Daxing people harassing my wife at work people trying to find out where I live reporting me as a spy all this kind of stuff it's all happened to me so that's why I don't encourage this kind of behavior no matter how bad someone behaved in the past I still believe that there's a line that we should not cross and that line is you don't you don't make it personal you don't go and trying to try to upset someone's life you know I think we can tell by now that these people have realized the mistake they've made anyway let's let's continue by the way I've been a long time watcher of your content I was a bit shocked to suddenly see my wife featured on it well the this this video of your wife was sent to me pretty much when it went you know when it became popular and I'm sure you've noticed that the video has appeared in multiple different outlets press outlets and I think even James Woods retreats you retweeted it the other day on Twitter and it's all over the place it's it's unfortunate but the cats out of the bag and there's no putting it back in and of course this is a very very related to what's going on with the entire Wuhan flu in the cover 19 and stuff so we have to talk about this and this is a fantastic sterling example of Daigo or parallel traders so you have to understand that this is important for us to talk about because she's giving the she's giving a very open look into the world of diagon anyway mmm-hmm don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions we want to be open and honest as possible and I appreciate that like I did try to encourage you before in our correspondence I did try to encourage you not to try and defend yourself because most often than not these kind of situations these kind of defense situations usually make it worse but I want you to know that I personally don't hold anything against you I'm very upset by a wife's behavior because unfortunately she has really made American Chinese or at least Chinese people living in America look very bad and you can gauge by that rather the reaction that you've received from China and both America that that's absolutely the case we got to discuss why I'm going to go forward here a little bit you see this is the the nail in the coffin it this is the indefensible thing is that the title of the video when she uploaded it to do Ian says it feels so awesome to buy other masks I didn't leave a single mask for the Americans and you know if you want to I specifically translated this for you just in case you weren't 100% aware but edn make war Sir Ian may gaym make war in LA that means not give American people even a crumb and the LA thing is kind of like a that's a cutesy thing Chinese girls like to do you know when they speak it's kind of like a fun cutesy thing to do there is no way to read that message anyway else you know you can't misconstrue it for something so someone says I'm not it like I didn't even leave a crumb for the Americans that's what's pissing people off that's what's pissing Chinese people off and that's what's pissing American people off is that specific line so I mean that's that's what should be apologized for you can't say that was dark humor or a joke because if I'm going to film myself in China walking in a shop because I can speak Chinese and but I'm speaking in English and I'm saying look I've taken every last I don't know tea leaf off the shelf and I'm not gonna leave any and if this title is like ah look I feel awesome I bought every last tea leaf I didn't leave a single one for the Chinese people you've got to understand the context of this it's it's just just twist it around think about it in different ways you can try to justify but this was a big mistake and this is why everyone's angry and this is what your wife needs to apologize for is this specific line you know everything else is whatever you know this is really the bottom line anyway just briefly because I don't want to don't and please don't worry I'm not making this video all about you and I do appreciate that you do did try to explain it to everyone because it now you have your side of the story out there and for everyone out there I did want to just show that I am this is what I said to him I said hey they're made if you're okay I will read your email out of my video today I won't edit it I add some commentary but your side of the story will would be heard I do however personally recommend that sometimes it's better to let things lie down by themselves sorry die down by themselves in situations like this often attempts to defend oneself will only add fuel to the fire of hatred although I will actively discourage an attempt any attempt to take action against you as I completely oppose any sort of vindictive behavior I will leave it entirely up to you as I said if you like I will read out your entire email completely unedited with my honest commentary but if you prefer and I personally recommend we can just leave it be and hope things blow over and his response was please do however the part that reads you know submitted needs to be admitted which I have admitted I'm sure you can understand why I know the internet and you can't put anything out there without getting hate but the thing that really bothers me is people saying she beats me bringing up that incident is scummy and completely unrelated I've bought back some of the masks that we sent over and plan to donate them to a local hospital but the shipping time is quite long so first of all I want to commend you for attempting to make reparations here I think that is the right thing to do and so I just want to say thank you to you for doing that 100% I understand that the speculation about your wife beating you must be incredibly upsetting and so that's why I will not fuel that any further and now everybody knows that this is something that you're uncomfortable with in that it's it's a bunch of nonsense so we can move on from that now just to put the final nail in this coffin he sent me these pictures as proof of the date when this was all done and I understand but we have to understand that it's not really about the date because we did have cases across the entire world at that time and there were people like myself and see milk and others saying how how difficult it was to get masks for our in-laws that we're going to fly back etc and that all the masks already sold out it ready it already was an issue and I'm not going to blame you if you didn't understand that but I still want you to understand the fact that emptying the shelves of any item is just at least in Western society is not the correct thing to do especially when you're buying like boxes and boxes and boxes of this stuff which you can see in the back of ticket that's her car or your car or whatever and again I just want to point out that these things were bought to be sold at profit okay and here you can see a 25 piece box 279 RMB it says they yo do - all which means they'll cost you 279 un to arrive in your hand in China you know and 2 boxes for 550 RMB 4 boxes for 999 RB this is a business that she's running this was all about making profit it wasn't about oh you know China has a shortage we need to send the aid or something like that because people were sending aid governments were sending aid this was just a very typical Daigo kind of a situation where there's oh look right now mosques are in heavy demand let's see if we can grab some quickly and sell them and make a profit that is how Daigo works we're going to get into that later and I'm going to show some other Daigo in a minute because I think you've had enough I think you've had enough negative attention and again I understand your position I don't envy you and anyone who's thinking about giving these people some hate and going over please refrain because there's no point they they're facing enough crap and this is probably gonna have a very lasting effect on their lives and it's unfortunate because I don't like to see anything like this happen to anyone so thank you Michael for reaching out and now we're gonna move on I want to show you what a Daigo is and I'm gonna tell you where'd I go come from so here you see this is from a little app called Xiao Hong Zhu which there are so many different apps for Daigo and what she's doing this is a Daigo who sells so as you can see here she she sells cosmetics luxury items and how this works it's kind of like Instagram in a way and it's usually pretty girls you know and they can be students or you know they're married or maybe they're just tourists in whatever country and it's not confined to just America I've run into Daigo in Japan they're massive in at places like Australia all over Europe every European country anywhere you can think of really it's something to do in in your spare time and it's a good way to make money and these Daigo make a lot of money so what they'll do is they have this kind of like Instagram sort of thing where they're like ooh look look this is the latest hoard that I've gotten I've gotten some this kind of these look at these LV bags that I can get or that I already have as you can see she's got them all in all packed up ready it's like they contact me if you want to buy them and these websites will allow people you know my wife browses these all the time and most Chinese people that I know they use this kind of thing and they're like oh that's nice I want that and they go and they make a purchase and by contacting the person right and then it gets shipped from whichever country over to China and they usually send it in small parcels you know one at a time so okay the 1ld bag here one this and that and they usually have their contacts to make sure that these things go through customs without a hitch and you know usually written that it's a gift or something and then on the other side they've got someone who will make sure that there's no import tax put on them and that's the whole point of Daigo is that most of these products you can buy in China you can go to a fancy mall and you can buy you know the top top range cosmetics or LV bags or whatever they're for sale but the import tax on them and the luxury tax that's put on them make them exorbitantly expensive even things like buying a phone and that's why when i was in china if i wanted to buy a new iphone on something or a camera i would go into hong kong because it would actually end up costing me significantly less like 20% less to buy the phone in hong kong because of the sales tax difference than in mainland china that's also why you get people constantly caught with like a hundred I phones taped to their bodies you know trying to walk over the border to smuggle them over you know this Daigo thing is something that I've been familiar with it's been a menace in my life for years and years and years living in Shenton because that's where most of this crap enters into China's through Schengen so the streets are clogged with people dragon boxes full of like all these goods that have been smuggled in illegally or taken over the border etc anyway so now you understand how it works someone goes online on these these Chinese apps and shows off all these fancy things that they have or that they can get they get orders they go and buy them in the shops and then they send them over to China to their customers and they make a profit they make a hefty profit I mean think about it they can they can charge ten fifteen percent more on whatever and still make a profit even after shipping so they make a lot of profit so I want to draw your attention to this particular Daigo this is just one of them that I was browsing with my wife we were looking at this and let's look at this video yeah hang on I want to go back a little bit and I want you to see what popped up on the screen there she's like in this low shop they gave me a 50% discount for these in 95 mosques and she goes on to explain that she got this 50% discount because she told the the clerks that she's going to donate these mosques to China because you know China has this horrible disease or sorry virus right now so she's going to donate them so the lovely clerks of Lowe's gave her a 50% discount because she was doing something good and humanitarian okay that sounds all nice it sounds like something I could get behind yeah match price d'Elegance based on fish honey poit dollar Caesar jigme honey got in Syria would you be in theater coming stroll coach arginine will never support two traditional people okay so like I said I could get behind this whole idea of how are you going to donate let's let's help you out let's do something humanitarian but then you see in her comment section people like oh do you still have any more for sale you know and she's like sorry it's too hard to to sell like we're sold out so she bought them got this discount because of humanitarian whatever reasons and then just sold them I mean at a profit because it wasn't about humanitarian stuff it was all about making a profit because that's how Daigo work and even the people in her comment section of calling her out saying okay show us the receipt for your your charity donation because they're they're getting pissed off by this too again this is making a lot of Chinese people look bad so for my Chinese viewers you can read the comments there feel free to to pause or whatever and see but this is kind of what I'm talking about here it's not just our friend in Florida it's nationwide and it's worldwide and it's a massive industry it's billions of dollars I think they did a calculation in the the Daigo industry in Australia a couple of years ago like two two thousand ten or twelve or something was like a billion dollar industry it's massive these people make so much money that's why you know students can basically do this in their spare time and earn more than a full-time office worker in most countries now I'm going to show you some footage I shot myself here in Hong Kong you can see it behind me sorry for the shaky cam you know I was using a different kind of camera and it was it gets better now this is a Watsons and they're very famous in Hong Kong is basically this is a pharmacy and you're in a crowded mall now why is it so crowded and annoying it's because all the Daigo are there on the side busy counting up all the the baby infant formulas stuff they've just bought and all the cosmetics and things that they're going to smuggle back over to me and my China so here you can see them taking everything out of their boxes packing them in there there are suitcases so that they can avoid detection by customs when they go back over the border and that's that's kind of how they do see they're taking a tally of all the the things they've bought so they can you know it's all for their records and things like that and this is super annoying you've got to understand Hong Kong people are so annoyed with this because everywhere you go you you getting people riding over your foot with these like carry-on bags that they've got stuffed full of infant formula and things like that you know their special shop set up right near the border here in chunks way that kind of cater to that now Here I am on the Chinese side of the local border and what happens is that I go bring they they kind of just pay people to bring and let us they're right there you can see this guy sitting with a bunch of milk powder bait infant formula I should say and what they do is they wait for their little bull agents and they'll come over and bring small quantities at a time because they just come they go back and forth over the border all the time you know they've got all day they don't care they just go back and forth picking up small quantities of tins bringing them over and then of course you've got a little van nearby that when there's enough of them they come and pick them all up and sell them on Taobao and things like that so this is something I've been observing for years and years and years in China and of course between China and Hong Kong down there and Shenzhen but why is this related to you not being able to buy a mask cause it's very very simple it all started with milk powder I should say infant formula that's what sparked off this Daigo revolutionist parallel trade the C legal parallel trader revolution was a confident formula I want to show you a little clip from Australia very quickly this is a couple years old but it's relevant to what's happening right now it's relevant as to why you cannot find these masks so let's watch this clip very quickly and we'll talk about it store in Melbourne yesterday and is a line of eager customers wait to grab their Tim's can local Hannah Dixon voices her concern but it's still wrong the formula is napped off the trolley before it can hit the shelves but once gutted retailers don't have a lot of supply and it's an issue that's got Australian consumers angry I've had to resort to giving a different option and my baby has vomited each time I've had to recruit friends and families by our formula the shelves are literally bare the current situation is just not fair for Australian families there's a high demand and we're working with our suppliers to make sure that we keep up with that demand it's no secret Australian baby formula is finding its way to overseas markets mainly China where in 2008 a locally made baby formula contaminated with the toxic compound resulted in the deaths of six infants and made an estimated 300,000 ills so Chinese families started demanding ozzy formula which is known to be made - sorry I'm just going to jump in here first of all it wasn't only six infants there was more - more like 40 46 because a lot of them died much later of kidney stones and whatnot but it was a terrible thing that happened what we saw with this dye go is well let's just continue watching this for a bit because I do need to comment a little bit more on this and I'm going to give you some a lot of reasons as to why this is incredibly relevant to right now so let's just get straight to it shall we okay a Dai goons the Chinese term for people who buy products overseas and sell them on in China usually at a big markup online shopping site team all currently lose many Australian baby formula products most at roughly twice the Australian retail price it's something we're working with Kohl's and more words attempt to impose a limit of fourteens per customer but there are obviously ways around this he's gone to all different shops on st. Louis bag a clothes bag chemist warehouse bag so what does this mean for all Z families is it impossible to stop its it is a limit of 4 per customer how do you enforce the limit we are working with that with where we're working with our teams and it's something we're working on ok so obviously you can't enforce it and like you saw in the video people will buy their fortin's go out and then come back obviously things have changed since then but it's still a similar situation we're going to look at another video here now if you look in the background what's happening here is it looks like the guy filming this is incredibly rude because he's going up and trying to film these the the Chinese people buying there the Teutons of infant formula so let's take a look and see what actually transpired right now [Music] I'm just gonna stop it there for a second these are organized gangs so Australia then made a rule Teutons per person per customer so what did they do they buy Teutons walk out put them in a pile walk back by another two turns walk out put them in the same pile and it's an organized gang so you know these people work together and in a matter of minutes they can clear out the entire store as you can see this is all that the result let's just finish this video so you can actually see to see a little more should be shiny silver disc rice absolutist rice despite the crackdown on 10 limits the problem isn't getting any better I go from store to store sometimes up to six different supermarkets in one day and I cannot find one tin or formula available Oh any luck in there no afraid not all the shelves are bare and I just don't know where to go from here okay so I mean you get the gist of what's going on here organized gangs fleecing the shelves of every last commodity which is then to be sold on to China for a profit this is what's happened with the masks no if you don't believe me you can go for yourself to your local pharmacy and try to find any everyone seems to think that this is a worldwide phenomenon that oh everybody's going out there and trying to horde and you've got Amazon sellers trying to price couch and stuff but there is no one who has such a slick system in place a slick machine like the Chinese do there are also masses amounts of Chinese diaspora everywhere and like I've stated before this is their nine-to-five job so while you're sitting at your office at your desk doing your work 9:00 to 5:00 the Daigo are driving around from pharmacy to pharmacy 9:00 to 5:00 buying up every last box of masks hand sanitizer things like that I saw it myself here in California a couple of weeks back I decided that I'd give it a little try and I drove with my wife because we were concerned her parents well her parents my parents in-law are going to go back to China so we wanted to get them some masks to take with them you know so that while they're traveling on the plane so we try to get some more masks I drove 120 mile radius around where I live into small rural backwoods little areas all the CVS Walgreens places like that were all sold out of masks and even more telling was in more than one location there were mini vans with Chinese people in them with boxes of stuff that they just bought now I'm not being racist I know they're Chinese because I can understand Chinese and when they speak they were speaking Mandarin with a mainland Chinese accent not a Taiwanese accent now they're anything else this is how I can tell the Daigo will wait early morning before the shop opens in queues in order to go in and get the last you know product off the shelf and so they have this slick system you don't stand a chance as a normal everyday citizen to get your hands on this stuff because by the time you decide oh it's my lunch break I think I'll go out and get some some nice masks and hand sanitizer for my family who desperately needs them during a pandemic by the time you arrive there they're all gone and already on their way to China so let's just continue because this is very telling I want to show you guys a little more these parents have spent the doming we have to try and stop this from happening enough is enough with baby formula practically running off the shelves many of the parents say they're being pushed to breaking point you're only supposed to have four it's an issue a current affair has brought you many times I want to talk to you about the business you're running from your house here baby formula sales are booming it's all being shipped offshore last year our reporter Laura Turner busted a stockpiling business in a suburban backyard and in January we helped mum's gain a small victory getting supermarkets to limit the number of tens customers can buy but is it enough from our retail giant's Blasi mums and dads say they're still struggling to get the formula they so desperately need to feed their babies I am worried at the end of the day that there is going to be a week where I can't find any formula at all and I won't be able to feed my child and what am I supposed to do so where is it all going the vast majority of the milk powder in Australia is being purchased by a group of people called dye goes they buy the stuff here in Australia and they ship it across where it gets sold in China [Music] disgusting it's pre-dawn at this suburban Woolworths the shelves have been freshly stocked with baby formula the doors have just opened and the horn back in this man filmed this clip and sent it to a Current Affair telling us he's sick of his sister not being able to find baby formula disgusting it's become an all-too-familiar site in Australia we shouldn't have to fight to feed our babies it's just not fair chaos in the aisles and at the checkout as shoppers load up on formula ok I'm beating a dead horse at this point because I think everybody understands I mean you heard the guy there who is filming that in order to get past the 2:10 limit or something those early morning shopper die goes will actually go to their car change clothes walk back in to buy more you know so the clerks don't recognize them it's incredibly driven this this is a multi-billion dollar industry and the people that are behind this the people profiting from this are willing to go to any lengths and so it blows the mind and the for a high trust society like America Australia it's not something that you would expect it's not something you expect from fellow human beings so you would never in your wildest dreams think that people would stoop to such levels to clean out the store the stores of things that are vital now I personally don't have an issue with the luxury items I don't have an issue with things like I don't know computer games or anything that's not vital but the problem is is that they're going for things that are vital and if you cannot get infant formula for your child because the Daigo have bought them all up in your area and if you cannot now right now get masks you know these these things have become such a commodity now there's like black markets that are you know trading these things it's ridiculous if my family right now cannot get mosques when they desperately needed if the health care workers in my area my local clinics cannot get these because all of the stops have been shipped off to China you know it's not a good situation back to Australia I'm just going to have to say here unfortunately for Australia because they do belong to China and now they're reaping the rewards just during January and February it's now been uncovered that not just two but multiple big CCP back to businesses you know these big real estate companies they instructed all of their staff to run around and buy every last mask protective clothing PPE anything medical supplies that they could get their hands on and they shipped it back they airlifted it back to China in their own private jets there is a Chinese billionaire who's an ex PLA that's a People's Liberation Army who runs several businesses in Australia also airlifted masses amounts of hundreds of thousands millions of medical supplies out of Australia cleaned it out so Australia has basically become a pantry into which China can reach its hand and grab whatever it wants out of engorge itself on it when it feels the need and unfortunately it's not just Australia but the rest of the world this issue of Daigo is very real and while we can ignore it when times are good right now we see in a time of crisis just how devastating it is and we need to put a stop to it and the only way I can see is putting a stop to this disgusting behavior is for proper measures to be put in place against exporting things like this absolute proper control if people are going to go in and buy masks or medical supplies that are urgently needed or just just a high-priority stuff they should be producing their IDs it should be like when you go to the pharmacy if you have a prescription from a doctor you should have to show your ID it should be put into a system it's the only way we should have strict export controls on things like this because this has really hurt the world China has stripped and fleeced the entire Western world of all of these medical supplies through Daigo and through state-sponsored companies - and we just sit back and think it's okay we don't realize just how bad it is again this is not a call for any hatred towards Chinese people these are people taking advantage of an opportunity that's very openly presented to them it's kind of like if somebody put a wallet down on the ground you're gonna get two kinds of people you'll get somebody who sees it and leaves it there for the owner to come back and find or maybe hands it in to the police and the other person will be like well hey free money take it and run and I'm pretty sure you can see what's going on in this situation anyway guys it's time for a couple of super chats and then we're gonna finish this up so I'm gonna have to enlist the help of my partner in crime law 86 C milk ain't no criminal yeah well your partner in crime if you don't mind shifting over here to the M or watch the chat just go toxic although we have one lot in there okay cool so hello guys hello Allah winners I'm going to be reading your questions and Winston the man himself will answer them thank you very much and feel free to jump in and help - sure um you want me to give you money yeah Edmund rx thank you Nega weeb buy a leather air freshener tree for the next width does exist no idea sounds like some is whipped leather yeah no pet ccp virus killed my uncle keep up your work i talked to him in the chest terrific you know it's it's all good and well to sit around with the you know right now everyone's i don't blame anyone or you know it's we shouldn't but when some member of your family dies because of this and you know that it could have been prevented if the ccp hadn't tried to keep it under wraps the whole time it's gonna change your your entire concept of the this situation china lied people died yeah yeah absolutely we should make a t-shirt adventures wow massive fan of your channel servings a day you inspired me to launch my own vlog channel two adventures that's a cool thing though it's like yo genie just go fund me page you don't need to do it okay okay Powell keep up the good work please put more info on sources about state-sponsored activity in comments okay James you've been putting out great content keep up the great work thank you Joanie salami sell me you'll nice on me that's finished okay greetings from Finland keep up the great a good job went to the Matthew long live Taiwan amen thank you thank you very much Kevin Lee Winston and Matt keep up the good work viii Pesa is the only mass from france see the news I hope you can be a critic on all sides keep it up absolutely absolutely will and I will look into that I'm not I'm not here to champion one side I'm here to call our that's early yeah shovelers no that's bad right no oh I got an uncle he's got a a bar it's like super low class and in the back he has a little placard it's got his face on it and stuff this is license to and it's got like a shovel on there and it's like the the official shovel seal of the like anyway that's like people that were like Tasmanian devil and Tweety Bird t-shirts yeah anyway um stay awesome from Oulu in shitty thank you yeah and my man she is another lying Chinese by I'm gonna say actually X I XI Shi Jing ping sure this is Chinese likes man we should not direct hate to these people although and I want to apologize to you by the way just apologize for maybe speculating a little too much on it I was a little bit angry when I saw the video I understood when I understand what the hates coming from but I do think that it's an unfortunate example of a very large enterprise and not one person should be singled out based on no no we shouldn't be singling her out we should single out the entire industry of Daigo yes yeah absolutely I'm against the the practice absolutely unchanged verse what do you think of Trump's negligent response to the virus yeah look I mean we've spoken about that at length but basically the whole world's negligent response is in part the fault of the w-h-o and it's misleading information and China's misleading information but at the same time there a lot of it's inexcusable right the CCP successfully destroyed everything eloquence etc etc yeah yeah we talked about that absolutely agree the Chinese people were ruined by this disgusting government we also yeah mari armenian your channels very informative i must admit it's a bit dick t'v keep it up you're doing an incredible job quarantine greetings from Finland ketose a lot of fans for Finland greetings to you too elevate to aloha that means greetings zem the man thank you for giving the facts keep being you buddy love from Florida absolute pleasure reordan MacWilliam thanks guys I have a great falling following in Australia all right by the way you got to tell that presenters it's a Daegu order yes I gue yeah I died from goob die die go stole my baby I never understand why journalists can't unlike you have one job you can you just have to say one word yeah just look behind oh hey I just got to say and our boys going on about like how China or Australia belongs to China which is true but I absolutely love Australian I love Australian people a good family in Australia you know mm-hmm Unchained verse said what do you think about Trump's racist remarks against Chinese calling it the China virus see I don't think that's racist to call it the China virus I know it's definitely pushing the wrong buttons I think he does it on purpose to get the the right kind of solution by yeah I would call it the Wuhan virus but at the same time it did come from China mm-hmm so you know if you said it's the Chinese virus but you mean then that the nation not the people right now I'm fully being to make that distinction yeah you have to make that distinction my lala lala dupa gear thank you Roman go bean I saw the pod yesterday but new details Wow yeah there was a follow-up and honestly we talked about this we didn't want to I tried to discourage ya but unfortunately he pushed for that but no look at the same time maybe maybe it brings him a little bit of peace of mind because he gets a story out there and you know people can read the email that's there for them to read and they can maybe people out there will say like yeah I hope you guys are being reasonable yeah princess 96 I appreciate your tone I trust what you say thank you for telling it like it is it's a pleasure Brian this bone shetan do par how India can protect from with 19 well we've seen the Indian police are very good at keeping people off the streets by beating them with sticks which by the way I find just incredibly entertaining but at the same time I think it's definitely necessary look at the same time I've also been sent especially by Indian people a lot of clips of the Indian police helping people who are like homeless and giving giving them water and looking after them during this time so now hate towards the Indian police India has its own way of dealing with things which you know doesn't involve welding people into their apartment so I'm all for it yeah well sticks though yeah HP Ando please keep spreading the truth will do you can count on it keep our mouths my girlfriend by his luxury bags in London to send back to China usually gets 100 pounds for full day shipping shopping shopping I'm sorry you know the thing about Daigo is they do make massive amounts Minh even if they only make a little bit they will still do it because it's still profit you have to understand especially where China's recently come from in the the recent history because of the famine and the the starvation and the poverty and everything any kind of money that can be earned and saved away even if it's a small amount in comparison like chump change as some of us might say it's worth the effort of doing and that's why the Daigo will stoop to such levels they don't have any self conscious you know they're not self conscious about going in and just grabbing things off the shelves and then going out and changing clothes and coming back in because there's profit to be made you know yeah anyway Phil Holliday Thank You Vesta the best content on China out there thank you thanks very much well I think he means I'm joking just know what we do yeah stay awesome that was very generous thank you thank you Jeremiah Johnson keep up the great work you guys Rock thank you so much oil Jody thank you you're it Ted Kaczynski's whether you put money out there to say that means maybe really believe that yeah I start growing a weird beard and living in a cabin in the woods you can you got a v8 errs I do yeah this is getting scary I think okay baby okay John funk Thank You Joshua Perez trying to lie people passed away that's a nice way to say yes solitaire yummy secretary super disgusting and I'm Chinese but not from China this really pisses me off stupid backward behavior horrible culture again you can't it's unfortunate but Chinese people are not to blame especially ethnic Chinese people have nothing to do with this nothing it's the society that's been shaped by the government which kind of leads to these kind of things happening and of course it's state-sponsored in a survival mechanism it is it's it's tough but don't worry you can count on people like myself in any level-headed person in the entire world never associating you with that bad behaviors just because of the color of your skin you don't need to worry about that yes Tim Kelly Thank You Susan one when do you guys believe the USA will open back up no way to predict it's it's hard to tell but I'm guessing a couple months yeah at least couch Thank You Matthew Richardson at cord airports I overheard China immigration lawyers say CV is natural selection due to Trump supposedly reducing immigration visas I mean look there's a lot of hate towards America but that's one person it's just one person I mean you see those those clips of the guy like wiping his shoe with the mosque's that doesn't represent it's just one of those things you'll find bad eggs in every country I just have to say same user how do you feel about Trump : the Vitara us really talk about that I think it's a little distasteful yeah I mean and he's doing it for a reaction you have to see it for what it is yeah David M I hope one of the five dozen people watching is member of Congress we always get this thank you for sharing and always thank you for wearing a helmet when you write these safe absolutely yeah honk-honk glad to see you're no based in red-billed mr. Beckett or would like to scream with you oh yeah we forgot to look them up okay I don't know that is take a look sure yeah I wouldn't say we're that necessarily but maybe according thank you thank you anyway Nova zero take my China money and gentlemen hope you are safe from the wolf Lu who may whinny fail at fighting you for tyranny failing is hilarious l biasts disastrous but still funny though enjoy very poetic thank you hon WR man hey guys thank you for calling out that goes living here in Australia I see happening way too much always felt so embarrassed absolutely it's not a zero here are your buddy yeah yeah the Daigo thing is so freakin annoying because you know they stoop to such levels and honestly it's embarrassing to anyone who actually sees it yeah never mind participates in it right off the reservation I'm just quickly fine there yeah yeah nice you guys are heroes thank you you up 100 point there girl thanks for your extremely informative content I'm Australia and that kind of hits me everything is just short supply her to get masks yeah you know it's not just Australia in the USA and I've had people sending me so we did in Norway yeah in the middle of nowhere that you wouldn't even think of yeah I mean South Africa everywhere every single part of the world right now when they suddenly need these things they no longer exist because they will all snatched up by opportunistic people trying to make a little bit of profit and it's like I said it's not about charity it's not like they went out and said look we're gonna do this for the good of the you know I'm sure there were people that did that but it's not like a charity thing it's make money thing which is now stranded the rest of the world correct in a terrible situation young CEO nay thank you for telling the truth keeping the world informed about the CCB virus our pleasure yeah dick aluminium Andy we love all people around but these people specifically they suck our blood dry and we have to do something even cancel their right to stay or necessarily love you mates keep it up absolute pleasure yeah something has to be done and we just can't allow this opportunity to be there for them to take advantage of it the people are active thing yeah yeah the Daigo the Daigo must be stopped they must be stopped and one more quick story about dagger which have told before is when i was in japan and i went to a shop with my wife she specifically was looking for us sweater or something that you could only get in japan from that one that type of chain or whatever we went there and she couldn't find it because was in high demand in China that's why she wanted it right because it's the local fashion and she was very disappointed we traveled all the way there specifically like that little area of town just to get that and she couldn't get it and then while we were about to leave a die girl came in and she had them all behind the counter waiting she'd already pre bought them and my wife spoke to her and convinced it as a yeah yeah I can't remember something like that the thing is into these all the time right okay next we have bla bla bla bla viewpoint of it I've been watching since begin of the year okay got it si edge have you never really said anything negative about China this must be bad for you to speak up I feel sad I'm in Canada and my wife is Chinese been there many times watch out vilius yeah I don't know about that's um interesting though interesting perspective next okay what Fawlty mosque who you do you want to grab one kosher yeah there you go yeah you take one too let's just show this is a faulty mosque it's this is something that your friend your wife bought at Walmart right rinse oh yeah yeah we're supposed to be m95 yeah rents are which is rent show and it is a company in China this wholly owned by a New Yorker this this just comes straight off look look at how easy this they're they're just rubbish and they they're not want proof or anything they just just trash whereas with a real n95 mask I cannot for the life you know I really have to really like work to try and get that metal thing off its embedded in their disposable and dozen even steal your face I can't for the life of me tear this and this is very thick in his Waterford you made our point that's what we're talking about cool horizontal I find it very hard to muster any kind of sympathy towards China nation and it my answer and antipathy towards the CCP should the west sanction them to encourage democratic human rights developments like I remember sure yeah the government's the government's the bad actor here you know arcane China yaoi infestation there's no Lealman tribe Japan okay God cichlid mmm-hmm what do you think of the Africa South African preacher endangering his entire church I look we've seen this a lot all over the world unfortunately people men of faith and so on they put a lot of faith in their faith right and this is this is for all religions it's not just Christianity ever every single religion sure every single religion is like this they believe that their Lord or their higher power is going to protect them and they might see this as a trial you know and those who are worthy will you know not be struck down or whatever it is and unfortunately that leads to poor judgment in these kind of situations so we've seen this a lot we're going to continue to see this and unfortunately that's really just shooting from the sky says anger the Chinese government air guns to the Chinese they're illegal there yeah well I mean that guy the pilot has arrested for buying remember they're for son yeah it's the worst thing ever is he has he been released I don't know wasn't he - wasn't it two years something there's something ridiculous yeah anyway uh ribbon mass-produced mess with the Taiwan flag they've done that yeah exactly whoops snapped it snapped lens feel sorry for them unaware of the mindset exhibited awesome James Everman thank you and great work you have a mystery from Switzerland thank you for the good work yeah you're always interesting in forms they awesome ultimate Mike everyone go to change that or go remove CCP WH oh yeah do it go to change that org and find the petition to remove Ted rose from the head of the the wh Oh a lot of evidence stacked up against them yes yet are when you Cove in nineteen we'll get back to normal like we said it's so difficult to tell I mean China's not over it yet even though they claim victory and it's been months so we're just going to have to wait and see could be half a year it could be a year we'll see Antonio they screwed us here in Canada the government did a conference today with real talk of proper projections we're looking at next summer at best if governments are honest with their people they will comply yeah that's didn't say anything yeah yeah head sir thank you for all the work you do guys we're all in this together we're gonna have to just weather this storm right but truth is important it's the most important thing because it prepares you you know if people knew about this stuff before like we've been trying to warn everyone and a lot of people have they went out and got medical supplies before they were all taken away by the die goat and when we first started reporting on this people were prepared that's what it's all about mm-hmm it's important for us to discuss this and weird like we're on this journey together so we're gonna be here all the way through and we're gonna be here when we all emerge from this eventually thanks for all that you do guys have been flying for a couple years all these interesting stay awesome deport the Daigo no yeah I mean if we're up to me I would I've there's so many legal gray areas with this but you know the fact of the matter is when people are doing this on tourist visas and student visas and stuff there are certain laws when it comes to working and in most countries right on a tourist visa you're not allowed to generate an income and this is running a business you are buying something and you're you're trading you've become a trader at that point you know you should have an import-export license you know if you are a student you supposed to most student visas you're only allowed to work a certain amount of hours a week or a month or something this should tie into all of that if you're running a business that's bringing in like hundreds of thousands or whatever a year or whatever it is you shouldn't be doing that on a student visa you should be studying you know so I think that there's a lot of potential for us to put a stop to this if countries just woke the hell up and saw what was happening right under their noses and stopped stopped this whole thing about Oh everything's fine just let me do what they're doing everything's okay you know JC Denton just want to say thanks to compensate you guys for ad blocking over the years I also bought conquering southern and northern China everybody go watch it thank you thank you Deus Ex is one of my favorite games that's I've seen that the avatar so many times you know right now someone's installing Deus Ex just because I mentioned it makes it absolutely nice if a tree falls no no it's a real thing that's a real thing oh no where did we go mother-of-pearl you went way too far it's weird it jumps their own way you don't keep going up mmm there's Jacy down to it thanks for the great content yesterday CCP virus mr. castle a pleasure Alex thanks for all you do guys thank you Michael Woodcock our bro we got over your name door yes sorry sir it was just really good hon W thank you bro again I can't see we said there is oh and by the way F yes alright thanks guys that's fantastic thank oh yeah thank you so much for joining me today I want to again just say thank you to Michael for reaching out about his Daigo wife and trying to explain the situation and like I said I honestly wish you all the best and I hope that this this dies down for you guys I know it's very unpleasant having experienced some of the things myself and for all the rest of you remember don't support I go try your best to put a stop to it in your area bye I don't know what you can do write your Congressman or something I don't even know how that works oh not American but I hear people say that all the time so do whatever you can start a petition I don't know but just be aware of what it is so when you see people walking in specifically Mandarin speaking people walking and loading up huge boxes of whatever off the shelves you know who they are and what they're doing um and they're very clever about it they'll just go around from place to place and fill up their cars and yeah anyway I've said enough about it I probably don't need to talk about this topic ever again don't you think that's a good idea yes I think it's dead well I think if go die yeah exactly so thanks a lot guys I'll see you soon have a fantastic weekend stay safe and above all you know the drill stay awesome

Channel: serpentza

Views: 257,274

Rating: 4.7817378 out of 5

Keywords: China, PPE, n95 masks, coronavirus, coronavirus outbreak, daigou, parallel traders, tradies, milk powder, Australian infant formula, covid-19, corona virus update, novel coronavirus, coronavirus lockdown, coronavirus update, SerpentZA, ADVChina, Laowhy86, Adv china, c-milk, expat in china, living in china as a foreigner, moving to china, winston sterzel, teach in china, cmilk, communist party of china, china how it is

Id: ImmRjT74i-c

Length: 71min 24sec (4284 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 03 2020

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