Not really the CDC’s purview to take care of masks.
Each hospital is supposed to have 28 days in surplus at all times.
The state’s Emergency Preparedness group is supposed to have a back up supply.
The CDC is the fire tower. They aren’t the fire department.
“Not really the CDC’s purview to take care of masks.”
Oh well, I’m still pissed at them, so CDC (and WHO) are my first two targets.
As far as telling hospitals to be stocked up...whoever directed that was a TOTAL IDIOT (or didn’t know that hospitals are businesses that exist to make money and will not stock dead inventory unless required to under penalty of imprisonment).
As to the states, same thing - how many votes is a warehouse full of masks going to get politicians? And it should have been understood that the need was FAR BEYOND the capability of people at the state level to even comprehend.
and every man for himself.
We CANNOT depend on the government to provide for us.
They will provide for themselves first and foremost, and then the rich and famous who have the money and connections.
What we want, we have to make the effort to procure ourselves.
OTOH, we have the advantage because we have not been pampered our whole lives and know how to take care of ourselves. We can grow, preserve, sew, cobble together things, heat with a wood stove, and cook on it.
We’re good to go.