The root cause seem to be the government desires to cover their own mistakes (ex: the masks being inefficient: because they didn't have enough at first This is

The root cause seem to be the government desires to cover their own mistakes (ex: the masks being inefficient: because they didn't have enough at first This isn't what the government said. The government said that masks were inefficient at preventing the wearing from contracting Covid, which is true to this day. They didn't want people to hoard masks at everyone else's expense, especially healthcare workers.