Yes despite this, and despite early studies from other countries showing that as much as 25% of coronavirus patients were infected while showing no symptoms, the U.S. didn’t embrace masks, not even homemade ones, because we didn’t have enough for anyone but hospital workers. Under the Defense Production Act, government could have ordered companies to stop making sweaters and start making simple face coverings and exhorted DIYers to join the effort. But we delayed, presumably due to some specious academic argument against creeping nationalism and protecting state’s rights. We waited until the virus had overwhelmed our society; by then, instead of needing companies to just make masks, we ordered them to make ventilators too.
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