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They intentionally lied about the masks to save them for health care workers. They could of messaged wearing cloth masks like the 1918 flu, then surgical as they became available, then n95 as those became available. Why wasn’t there a stockpile? We give trillions to Israel’s genocidal campaigns since it’s founding yet we don’t have a stockpile of basic medical supplies? What a joke of a fucking country. Burn it down and start over.
Everyone knows flu and cold spread airborne and surfaces, why did they only focus on surfaces? It’s a respiratory virus, why not say both? Because you can’t buy anything for airborne. Stock line must go up!
They lied, they did it intentionally, and they broke public trust. When bird flu comes around with likely 10x the death rate if not more we’re gonna be in for some interesting times ahead.
Cloth masks aren't really any different from surgical masks and people were being advised to make cloth masks, but rarely where they up to spec.
We don't have stockpiles of anything. That's not a covid conspiracy. It's basic capitalism. Why didn't the government buy up stock piles? Even if they wanted to, the factories that make them were already operating max capacity. Nominal capacity is max capacity. Why? Capitalism.
Spit getting into people's eyes is how most people were catching covid and there was official advice on wearing eye protection, but people cared more about their faction then health. I remember getting sneered at for wearing safety goggles.
Air Borne was only really a risk indoors. Dilution and UV basically killed the virus quickly outdoor, so as long as you practiced safety distancing, you were fine. Where was the profit in telling people to distance? You can indirectly measure viral saturation indoors with a CO2 monitor. If the room was over crowded or wasn't getting ventilated properly, the CO2 would go up. Why weren't they selling CO2 monitors?