Can’t speak to the quality of the news source, take everything with a grain of salt.
What I find odd is that a stockpile of 39,000,000 masks was just sitting at a distributor weeks after the call for action went out. On top of that, finding a new manufacturer that can produce 20M more masks per week that the rest of the planet didn’t know about?
For context, 3M is maxing out production lines at 100M per week and they already made them, plus got authorization (legal protection) to provide 95 masks to healthcare from lines that made the same thing but hadn’t been certified by FDA to get there and are expecting it to take a year to double that output (per my read of recent news).
Maybe it’s all on the up and up, but the numbers seem really weird,,,
Correction - per the news report 3M will hit 100M per MONTH.
hmm, suppose a significant number of large actors purchased mass quantities in say January-february. Like SEIU size. Wouldn't that cause a disruption in availability? I have a hypotheses these shortages of various articles don't add up.
Plus why did LA county and NYS decide to stop reporting testing stats? Why was the CDC response so confused early on?
Unfortunately I'm a paranoid hypochondriac by nature and so I really have to validate these notions quantitatively before I feel comfortable raving about it but things just don't seem quite right.
Maybe what's happening here is some kind of "cool war" where some nation state is manipulating various organizations to take actions which add up to disruption. Certainly the news media constructing narratives from Chinese and Russian propaganda would be a symptom of that. OTOH it could be organizational febrility. But there are a number of nation-state scale actors who have organized international disruptions in the last few decades, e.g. Soros, various Chinese and ChiCom agencies, even the CIA/NSA.