[viklove]

> Zero of the grocery stores I have visited have gloves or masks on, so why aren't people wailing about them?

They are!

> government is telling people 'no masks'

People are calling out the government too...

It always surprises me how quickly HN commenters want to jump to the defense of rich corporations and billionaires.

> The staffer should not have lost his job

But he did, because Jeff Bezos is greedy and has no regard for human life.

> because they're all going to the medical staff

Not true, in fact Amazon was contemplating donating their stockpiles to police forces for good PR.

[jariel]

No - grocery workers are not wearing masks at scale. That there might be a few here and is irrelevant - they are broadly NOT wearing masks, which is the national policy.

The current national strategy is to get the masks (particularly N95s) to the frontline workers, some of whom are running out of PPE while having to enter and work in hospitals full of COVID patients.

This 'blame the rich' populism is irresponsible.

Amazon workers are currently following the same recommended national strategy - which is the responsible action.

If they were all wearing N95s, the 'blame the rich' crowd would be screaming that 'Amazon is taking away needed resources form medical staff'.

>>>>> "People are calling out the government too..."

No. They are calling out 'no cloth masks' policy, they are not calling out the 'get medical workers the N95s' policy.

>>>>> "because Jeff Bezos is greedy and has no regard for human life."

Rubbish sensationalism.

>>>>> "fact Amazon was contemplating donating their stockpiles to police forces for good PR."

1st - They didn't. So this point is not relevant. 2cnd - Donating materials to responders is a 'good thing'. It's ridiculous to split hairs and say 'it's immoral to give to police but not hospitals' 3rd - You have no evidence that their only motivation for making said donation was 'PR' and not 'Goodwill'. You're making up facts.

[viklove]

> grocery workers are not wearing masks at scale

I never said they were

> they are not calling out the 'get medical workers the N95s' policy

Why the hell would anyone call them out for wanting to get masks to medical workers? Medical workers should have masks, but that does not mean the public should not also have masks. People are rightfully calling them out for telling the average Joe to not wear a mask, but for some reason people like you are worried about the poor helpless corporations.

> This 'blame the rich' populism is irresponsible.

The only reason we can't produce enough masks domestically is because "the rich" have exported most of our production capabilities out of the country, so they can increase their margins and hoard more wealth. Bringing this to light is not irresponsible, the decisions that the wealthy in this country have made on its behalf is what's irresponsible, and there will be a reckoning.