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Originally Posted by aigel View Post
I don't think individual's greed made the PPE crisis. We were let down by our government. They did not do a proper risk analysis with mitigations, otherwise the fact that a respiratory virus could come take us by storm would have been mitigated by stockpiling PPE and equipment. I said this in other threads, but we have the biggest military in the world, missile defense systems, strategic oil reserves, cyber defense yadda yadda ... but can't stockpile a couple hundred million dollar's worth of PPE.

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Pure human greed can't be underestimated.

Without the federal government stepping in, the PPEs all go to the highest bidder across the world hence the accusation of US "hijacking" these shipments.

8B is a lot of masks, there isn't enough to go around at this time.

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US hijacking mask shipments in rush for coronavirus protection

Fears of shortages are driving many countries to take increasingly devious measures to secure masks and tests

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/global-battle-coronavirus-equipment-masks-tests
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