The Associated Press has contacted some electronic manufacturers, asking how they protect against viruses. All of the companies contacted either refused to give a statement or ignored the message.

This shows that there is some funny business going on behind the scenes.

An easy, but expensive, way to fix the problem is to have monitoring suppliers to watch over the assembly lines. This has yet to happen.

I realize that these workers don’t always get hefty paychecks, but they should still care for the items we are buying from them. We should get what we pay for, and as it looks now, we aren’t. Precautions need to be taken to protect what we buy against viruses.

It’s necessary for people to be satisfied with what they buy.

And it is necessary to care about what is being sold to the world.

Change needs to happen in the production lines in China, and I believe small steps, such as having people monitor the manufacturing, will make big strides to allow people to feel safe when buying electronics again.

Amanda Turcotte