There are very, very few people, with decisionmaking power who not tightly tied to Trumpworld, who believe the pandemic will be over in six months. The best ca

There are very, very few people, with decisionmaking power who not tightly tied to Trumpworld, who believe the pandemic will be over in six months. The best case timeline for mass vaccinations looks like late 2021 at the earliest, which is considerably longer than six months from today, much less six months from when the pandemic started. Further, government funding would entirely change the economics of ramping up mask production. If government was paying the bills, it wouldn't matter to manufacturers if demand disappeared before new production capability had paid for itself, because government was paying the bill.