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>that is incentive enough to increase production

Alas, the world is rather more complicated than that. Case in point, this Dallas surgical mask factory that is not running overtime, because the hospitals screwed him over last emergency, and he almost went out of business:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2020/04/03/if-you-i...

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This is quite clearly a policy failure. I don’t understand why the US isn’t subsidizing production for something as important as masks or other medical supplies. Obviously it is a national security issue, the same way food security is and which is why agriculture is so heavily subsidized.

Why not just presell future batches with no refunds and cash upfront? People like myself would still pony up cash

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