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N95 masks were never useless and Fauci should be seen as a monster.

What I don't understand is why there were no nations giving away n95 masks and education on how to wear it. It seems like we hivemind to the unsustainable lockdowns.

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> What I don't understand is why there were no nations giving away n95 masks

Don't know if you remember last march/April, but there were no N95 masks to give out in a lot of places...

I agree, but by October they were everywhere.

Right, but what about by this March/April?

I don't understand why most functional governments didn't eventually have a monthly care package of "here's your masks, hand sanitizer, the latest newsletter, and your stimulus check".

This April they're mostly useless in the US because you can just get vaccinated. If you're refusing to get vaccinated, you're probably refusing to wear a mask too.

There's a lot more to the world than the US, and that's really missing the point. "We're out of masks" is a perfectly good answer to "why aren't governments giving them out" in March 2020; it's not a good answer a few months later.

> I don't understand why most functional governments didn't eventually have a monthly care package of "here's your masks, hand sanitizer, the latest newsletter, and your stimulus check".

Partly because it isn’t the role of government to “give” you things you might want while they are paid for with foreign debt in box.

Disaster mitigation and relief has long been a governmental responsibility.

There was a proposal to do this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-scrapped-usp...

It was killed for political reasons.

Last year in Germany you could get IIRC 7 free N95/FFP2 masks at the local pharmacy for free. The pharmacists were supposed to show you how to wear them.

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