The private sector supply chains you mentioned, have to pay government taxing authorities money on their inventory.
The government healthcare sector doesn’t pay taxes on inventory.
You need to direct your anger against state and federal government parasites, not the private sector.
All they had to do was to do the same thing they do on EVERY SALE item.
Limit purchases.
It would have slowed the panic and helped more people get supplies.
Despite the lock down people are out every day looking for essentials.
The fault remains 1005 with the large retailers.
They have no issue inventorying higher priced items such as alcohol.