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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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