How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks

Re:How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks by rejschaap on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @10:51AM (#22685059)

They could change it to "richest countries", because the US isn't the only rich country that screwed up. Look at Austria and Switzerland and their reliance on importing masks from other countries. Or at the Netherlands, which can actually produce large quantities of masks for domestic use but didn't because the government was too busy downplaying the epidemic.

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Re:How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks by jeffdavis on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @11:17AM (#22685362)

Yeah. I feel like the U.S. is always in the spotlight for criticism, but there are an awful lot of mistakes to go around. People just don't handle crises well.

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Re:How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks by Daishiman on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @12:16PM (#22685995)

Those countries have implemented emergency legislation that makes up for employee pay and institutes a bunch of emergency measures that will make the countries come out the crisis rapidly and more robustly.

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Re:How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks by Gibbon1 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @04:04AM (#22810945)

I think the odds are about 2 to 3 that the wealthy and connected in the US use the pandemic as an excuse to use free money to wholesale loot everyone else.

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