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Originally Posted by coffeebean
You missed the point of my post. If the Federal Government had mandated masks back in January, the virus would have been starved of hosts. No hosts, the virus burns itself out. I truly believe we did not have to shut down the economy. Masking would have served that purpose. I would much rather have had a mask mandate than tank our economy.
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The thing is there was almost instantly a mask shortage. My wife's a nurse and her hospital had a hard time staying supplied. There was almost nothing available to the general public.
You can mandate all you want but if supply can't keep up with demand it's pretty much an empty mandate.