Agreed—this mask fiasco (which _still_ is far from over) is totally inexcusable—and almost every Western country blew it big time.
China created the problem—but we made it hundreds of times worse than it had to be.
unfortunately, the mask fiasco was made worse by all the churches and the Chinese going to every store they could and gathering as many masks as possible and shipping them to China PLUS from what I understand many hospital departments and warehouses here that had received their normal shipments were then asked by their Chinese suppliers to ship them back to help there...this all happened around January before it started exploding here.