3M was shipping masks overseas until yesterday. Some people were buying out places like HomeDepot and Costco and selling them at huge markup. It's not "their" f

3M was shipping masks overseas until yesterday. Some people were buying out places like HomeDepot and Costco and selling them at huge markup. It's not "their" fault these independent agents behave this way. Culpability can be scrounged up, if it must, to the extent that previous administrations ignored their own experts warnings: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-20/disaster-foretold-shortages-ventilators-medical-supplies-warned-about https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-20/disaster-f... If you operationally define "good" as "fewer dead people" then reserving what masks there are for healthcare workers and first responders is a "good" because they are society's agents that can save people from death. Not enough masks? Doctors nurses first on the lifeboat folks. That's just the way it is. Sure, telling people not to buy them is a poor substitute for what ought to be individual conscience. How is the fact that such a substitute has to be sought "their" fault ?