> If you thought capitalist society was good at distributing goods, just look at what happened to hand sanitizer. Everybody needs it now, yet it has been bought up by the few that got to it.

Our country is trying the other approach. Ban the sale of protective gear, and distribute it centrally. It's not working great either. GPs don't have any protective gear anymore and can't buy it on the market, as they did up to now, and talk of shutting down their practices soon, because most GPs are run by old people, and they're literally putting their lives in danger by practicing. They're only getting promises since January. They are now trying to get protective gear on black market to at least have any. They're begging the government to lift the ban so that people who're trying to get them protective gear from abroad are not doing so illegally/in great legal uncertainty.

Of course no other profession exposed to masses of people daily like cashiers, have any chance either to have protective gear, under the current system.