From the site: > Fucking governments should institute Fucking price controls and ration Fucking masks > That is a Fucking horrible idea. Price controls mean n

From the site: > Fucking governments should institute Fucking price controls and ration Fucking masks > That is a Fucking horrible idea. Price controls mean no Fucking incentive to make Fucking masks. They mean people will waste Fucking masks and no one will have Fucking masks. Take it from our experience in Hong Kong, rising prices mean supply will soon flood the market. Oh, wow. So many wrong things here. There's an assumption that there's extra idle manufacturing capacity in the factories producing masks. This is doubtful in the extreme, they're selling every single mask they can already.[1] We've seen this with the depletion of stocks of toilet paper - manufacturers ramped up production within days. The mask shortages have been for weeks now, anyone with any ability to produce masks, is already doing so at full rate. What about standing up new manufacturing facilities, or retooling other types of manufacturing facilities? There's a huge amount of capital expenditure (let alone time) involved in such a thing. And this assumes that you can even obtain the equipment to do that manufacturing in a short period of time. I can't imagine there's a warehouse somewhere full of mask-manufacturing equipment. There's no need for that capacity normally, so as soon as this pandemic is over, the need for that extra capacity will disappear. Is there any medical expert who believes that this situation won't be resolved (one way or another) within a year? All that we achieve with completely free-reign/uncontrolled market in this situation is to allow exploitation of the needy. As we saw with multiple cases over hand sanitiser, toilet paper and wipes. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/surreal-frenzy-inside-us-biggest-mask-maker/ https://www.wired.com/story/surreal-frenzy-inside-us-biggest...