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The crazy thing to me is the government or hospitals haven’t issued a massive n95 drive to obtain more.

I have a few left over from a house project I did a while back. Kept one for myself, but happy to donate the other 4 I have. I’m sure if the request was actually made people would donate. Is it enough? No idea, but construction workers, painters, etc don’t need them right now.

People want to do something, let them.

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Just curious why are you waiting for a request? Why not call the nearest hospital and say "I've got 4 n95 masks, do you want them?"

There is a problem with issuing a request - not everyone will know about it. As you mentioned, you think there was no request. But there were multiple: here's one example https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2020/hospitals-are...

You know you basically have to toss them after a single use if you want them to be effective, right?

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