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That's another thing: I am pretty shocked that our government doesn't have emergency reserves not even for these kind of simple items.

[fma]

We do, but it's not enough. National Strategic Stockpile has seomthing like tens of millions of masks. I believe need over 1 billion.

It wasn't replenished after H1N1. Hard to convince politicians to buy things we may or may not use.