Happy Australia day everybody. I'll try to make it short and clear but I have to start with this:
I'm from Beijing, but preferably call myself Aussie cos I've been based in Brisbane more than a decade. Hoping you guys understand how much I appreciate all the infos not just all the deals and bargains but also everything you guys discussed and argued, made me understand the country, people, culture, lifestyle and much more. And the most exciting part of my Aussie living is that the more I understand it the more I love it and the less regret.
2 very close friends of mine, who are physicians from Beijing, NOT Wuhan, are currently on holidays at the beach somewhere between Geelong and Melbourne Victoria, the state just anounced the first Wuhan virus case in Australia yesterday. They are definitely healthy and clean from virus, and not worrying about the rest of holiday in AU but need to prepare some medical facemasks on the flight back to Beijing a week later, departure from Sydney, believed full of Chinese tourists, which is going to be a reasonably high risk.
The problem is they've been to many pharmacies today around Geelong area but non of them had stock at all even 2 stores showed stock online. It's not easy for them fisrt time visiting Australia to drive around in suburbs I never been to nether. I made some phonecalls for them but no luck yet. My guess is that somebody who are sensitive about making money from this kind of thing, besides the genuine buyers, maybe started stock up. Anyway, I feel here is the best platform to seek help from and the best time and reason to post my first thread.
They got some dust-proof masks couple of hours ago from Bunnings but obviously not meeting their needs quite enough. And they don't want to wait for ordering delivery to local stores as some of them offered, hoping to stick with their planned traveling schedule.
Any medical facemasks stock available information around Geelong areas is super appreciated. But for the reason I mentioned already, is there any chance to PM me instead of post them publicly here? I know it doesn't sound matching this forum and makes myself very suspicious as the profits-seaker, but I really couldn't find out any better ideas. at least it's much easier to prove I'm genuine than beat the profits-seekers. That's why I'm giving you guys as much as details to make sense. Any thoughts?
The group of 6, 4 adults and 2 children, arrived AU about 2 weeks ago, which means at the time they abord the flight there wasn't any officially confirmed case in Beijing and almost no Aussie had never heard of that. both of my friends are highly qualified physicians with 15 years practicing experience in major hospitals through all over Sars virus fighting (if you guys know what I'm talking about). So from their professional information and point of view, they didn't think they should bring facemasks at the time they abord the aircraft. The only concern of their long-time-planned holidays was Australia bushfires, which they got "no worries." about it when I was consulted by them.
So it was me who brought them here in Australia during the bushfire crisis and should be responsible for their safety, not legally of course.
Maybe too much details, just trying to explain the whole situation.
Thanks very much for reading and sorry for difficult understanding or mistakes from language problem. Any help is mostly appreciated.
Tell them to drop by Sydney on their way home and we'll give them 2 boxes of P2 masks for free.