The Hospitals have always had that rule. It goes back decades. It’s a requirement under the Joint Commission. It’s for emergencies, declared emergencies.
The problem is the bean counters running hospitals treat it like the Social Security Trust Fund—it’s sitting right there...we will replace it when we HAVE to.
Ok...you HAVE to.
Oh...there’s none to be bought...it’s the Fed/CDC fault.
This virus is exposing a lot of things that are going to piss off a lot of people—and demonstrate the greed of the people who own US corporations.
“This virus is exposing a lot of things that are going to piss off a lot of people—and demonstrate the greed of the people who own US corporations.”
Agree - but that is why we have laws, or should have laws.
If we had no pollution control laws, would businesses spend the huge sums of money for scrubbers out of the goodness of their hearts...or would they say their (particular) contribution to air quality was so small as to not matter? Pretty obvious.
So, to me, it was a POLITICAL FAILURE. They laws should have been in place - you want to operate a hospital, show us your mask inventory, or you get shut down...and have it available for surprise inspections. We used the honor system - we should know that can NEVER work.