Licensed nursing home administrator here… all of the idiots buying up all of the masks are screwing over healthcare workers who actually need them to perform their daily jobs and run a higher risk of coming in contact with the virus.

Literally everywhere you look these days

First, have you noticed that everyone making this claim is in one way or another licensed, certified, credentialed, or otherwise rubber stamped? Further, they have been trained– TRAINED, I say!– on the proper way to fit a mask to a face. Okay. Fine. Here you go:

About 246,000,000 results

Google: how to fit a face mask

I found this on a sports forum, for crying out loud. An Off Topic thread.

But here’s the really moronically stupid thing. When was the last time you saw a licensed nursing home administrator, or for that matter the administrator of any health care facility, at Lowes stocking up on face masks? Never, I’d bet. They order the damned things from medical supply companies, which are unable to fill their current orders.

For all I know, 3M makes masks for home improvement stores and for medical supply companies. But they are most likely distributed to those two target markets through different distribution routes.

I am most decidedly not a licensed exert on medical supply distribution chains but the argument that buying something that’s already on a shelf at Lowes somehow diminishes the supply of that thing to health care facilities is really something to ponder.

It’s the reverse of, “There are starving children on the other side of the globe. Clean your plate!”

Makes no sense.