Good comment on price gougers.
You forgot however that all our laws, taxes, regulations, and license structures protect existing producers against sudden new competition.
The little grey cells are wondering how you could legalize the selling producing you imagine, how all of it would have to be changed.
Yes appropriate and inappropriate regulations are part of the cost.
Hand sanitizer is rubbed onto the body. Consumer protection should be efficiently done to make sure it a) isn’t harmful and b) actually sanitizes.
Ideally the appropriate regulations would be efficiently applied. Ideally.
Like the my pillow guy. It’s excellent he’s retooling to make masks. But of course there does need to be some objective quality control. We can’t just have people seeing two tissues together and selling them as N95s.