In Pursuit of PPE
This is insane. 5x markup and federal seizure of privately procured masks that will then get given to private companies to give to hospitals. Instead, the government could institute price controls and distribute directly to those in need or allow all private purchases to go through while controlling part of the market. Absolutely crazy. Not to mention having to hope your governor praises the federal government to get their masks back.You could not have invented a worse scheme for this, but somehow they have, AND they’re using federal manpower (in N95s, naturally) to intercept these shipments.