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The only illogical thing to me here (in the current moment, what do we do now?) is - why are administrators doing this in such a hacky way? We have a whole country with many, many ways of producing different types of products.

Why isn't a proper manufacturing operation at a paper company, quilt company, halloween costume company, etc etc etc producing a big volume of hacked masks to be distributed to tons of hospitals?

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What you say is an argument from ignorance...but anyway: you should not imply intent if incompetence works as well. And the latter is strong in.the current US government;)

I've asked this question every single day. Even w/o government intervention, a competent CEO would say "Hey there's a huge global demand for my product, and it'll likely be a domestic demand. Lets crank out these health products".

The US closed and withdrew all their employees from the US Consulate in Wuhan on Jan 26th. Can't say we didn't know it was serious.

Masks shortage have been known for a while. The tinfoil hat in my says because the US wants this to spread. I have no other logical explanation.

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