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Old 11-23-2020, 10:03 AM   #7168
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp View Post
Yup, and surgical masks were never really a concern for hospitals, it was N95 that they literally didn't have enough of (to the point where the US was stealing them from Germany and Canada)

I can see why you wouldn't want people going nuts over masks, but they did anyway over toilet paper and hand sanitizer. So overall it was a horrible idea to lie and say masks weren't needed when the evidence clearly showed otherwise.
I don't know where you are getting your info. I feel like it is random public perception that hospitals were all stocked up. My wife and most of her friends are nurses in various Metro Vancouver hospitals, and there are a few doctors in her family. Between March and May, many of the hospitals were tight on masks. They had to keep locking them up because there was a ton of internal theft. They were re-using masks multiple times when typically they would be thrown out.
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