So you acknowledge that some people would hoard masks regardless, and therefore, your original suggestion "just ask people not to hoard" was overtly idealistic and would not prevent hoarding of masks?

Are you being intentionally obtuse just to get a fight going, or you really do not understand what "I truly believe most Americans would not hoard masks if they were asked to" means? In case of the later, it means that I truly believe most, but not all, Americans would do the right thing and the nation would be able to handle the few sociopaths that who would indeed hoard.

Thanks for the clarification. It seems we disagree on whether we could handle "the few sociopaths" who would indeed hoard. Let's leave it at that.