How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate

Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by tristor on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @10:14AM (#34149350)

> My understanding is that N95 masks have a shelf life (2-5 years?), so stock would need to be regularly repurchased.

“Shelf-life” on non-perishable goods is highly conservative and often regulated by profit motive. Millions of N95 and P95 respirators were destroyed shortly before the pandemic due to “shelf life” and yet would have been a god send compared to having nothing or treating active COVID cases with a t-shirt or bandana over your face as happened in many US hospitals.

Proper planning could have rotated stock to maintain shelf life, slightly less proper planning could have realized the sheer stupidity of destroying working strategic materials due to an arbitrary and made up number.

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Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by chiefalchemist on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:22AM (#34150015)

We regularly enrich The MIC with over-budget weapons, certainly we can figure out how to manufacture N95 masks and rotate them as necessary.

This is Respiratory Pandemic 101. It's a threshold no expert should be tolerant of and/or should fail. Any other excuse is propaganda.

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