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Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns by ianai on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:49PM (#23433094)
The best I heard it explained as was a dilemma. Do you tell people that only n95 masks or better work to protect the wearer? If you do then, because enough stockpile of n95 masks wasn’t maintained for this pandemic, critical medical practitioners like ER staff, nurses, doctors, surgeons wouldn’t be able to wear PPE. Or Do you lie and tell people n95 masks don’t work in the hopes essential medical personnel are then able to find masks? I think they went with the later. I think this was discussed by Michael O. during his appearance on JRE.
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Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns by msandford on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:22PM (#23433520)
Dilemma or not lying erodes trust. Was it worth it? Probably not is what a lot of people are saying.
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Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns by HideousKojima on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:23PM (#23434147)
It also ignores a third option (and one that was actually used anyways), blocking all shipments of n95 masks to retail outlets to send to hospitals instead
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Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns by ianai on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:41PM (#23434349)
That’s not an option. Apparently hospitals get their stock from essentially the same places as the rest of us. Like not the target down the road but the warehouse target gets its stock of ppe.
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Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns by HideousKojima on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:55PM (#23434479)
Yes, and those warehouses halted shipments of PPE to retailers like Target at the start of the pandemic
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Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns by ianai on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:24PM (#23435155)
And it still wasn’t going to be enough.
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Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns by HideousKojima on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:40PM (#23435249)
It's not like they pulled existing stock in consumer retail outlets off the shelf, so I don't see how lying to the public about mask efficacy had any significant effect on the supply for healthcare workers
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Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns by ianai on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:59AM (#23438318)
Wouldn’t have been enough.
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