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>The Strategic National Stockpile does store an inventory of masks. 13,000,000 of them. That's like 1/10th of 1 day's needs... >they have plans to get another
by D_Alex 7y ago
>The Strategic National Stockpile does store an inventory of masks. 13,000,000 of them.
That's like 1/10th of 1 day's needs...
>they have plans to get another half billion
Each week until the virus is contained, I hope.
- sp332 7y agoIt's not supposed to be a primary source for masks. It's a reserve.
- adrianN 7y agoTo me it seems like we're in a situation where you would use such a reserve.
- floatingatoll 7y agoExhausting that reserve in one day would do nothing to curb the epidemic, and do nothing to protect the nation other than delay any onset by one day. Reserving the masks for CDC, vaccine researchers, and national defense operators would be an example of good uses of a nation-focused 'national' reserve. Think 'trolley problem' where one side of the track is the nation-entity that contains the citizens on the other side of the track.