04-22-2020, 08:20 AM
There is proof right here on Punaweb of people buying masks despite being asked not to, boasting about it and then subsequently lying about it when the shame set in (so there is at least hope!).
Consider this article:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/fa...index.html
The United States' top doctor has one simple request: Stop buying face masks.
US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams' message, posted to Twitter on Saturday, was a response to face mask shortages as people stocked up due to coronavirus concerns.
"Seriously people," he began, and though it's a tweet, you can almost hear the exasperation in his plea. "STOP BUYING MASKS!"
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I agree, it would've been better that the hospitals had stockpiles and that the White House hadn't disbanded the department that was helping prepare for pandemics.
But once it was known there was a dangerous shortage then people should not have been buying masks that were in short supply at hospitals. One box here, one box there, soon it adds up to millions of masks lying unused in people's closets and shortages where they are needed most.
Fortunately, the mask shortage seems to be over now. It was a responsible thing to buy masks before the height of the pandemic and now after, but not during, especially when it got so bad that the SG had to tweet in all caps to get the message through. Or was that Fake News?
Consider this article:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/fa...index.html
The United States' top doctor has one simple request: Stop buying face masks.
US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams' message, posted to Twitter on Saturday, was a response to face mask shortages as people stocked up due to coronavirus concerns.
"Seriously people," he began, and though it's a tweet, you can almost hear the exasperation in his plea. "STOP BUYING MASKS!"
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I agree, it would've been better that the hospitals had stockpiles and that the White House hadn't disbanded the department that was helping prepare for pandemics.
But once it was known there was a dangerous shortage then people should not have been buying masks that were in short supply at hospitals. One box here, one box there, soon it adds up to millions of masks lying unused in people's closets and shortages where they are needed most.
Fortunately, the mask shortage seems to be over now. It was a responsible thing to buy masks before the height of the pandemic and now after, but not during, especially when it got so bad that the SG had to tweet in all caps to get the message through. Or was that Fake News?