[wrycoder]

Most of the N95s are in government storage, slowly turning brown.

[jszymborski]

Or, you know, in stock at your local HomeDepot https://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-9205-N95-Aura-Particulate-Dis...

[wrycoder]

Yes, now. Try that a year ago.

And there’s still big piles around in warehouses, turning brown and rubber straps deteriorating.

[jszymborski]

I don't understand why you seem to think that gov't stockpiles don't end up in the hands of government employees and medical professionals as they are intended to, or that the storage conditions of N95 by the gov't is any less suitable than commercial warehouses?

Unless these N95s are being stored in a bog, I have a hard time understanding how they're "turning brown" and "deteriorating" in the span of two years.

Such unlikely claims would need a source.