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To: Investor2 who wrote (4259)	6/17/2020 12:58:30 AM
From: Sam	1 Recommendation Recommended By Glenn Petersen Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22883

Another interesting video. But I don't understand why he and you seem surprised about the reason for the initial recommendation on masks. That has been been public knowledge for many months now. For example, here is an excerpt from an article from April 10: Among the reasons for reluctance on the part of some health agencies and places to urge mask wearing is the concern about the shortage of masks for medical workers. That's why the World Health Organization has stayed consistent in its recommendation, Margaret Harris of its coronavirus response team told NPR. And that position is: yes to masks for health-care workers and people with symptoms, no for the general public. npr.org If I bothered, I suspect I could find similar quotes in articles from February or certainly March---the threat was still being played down in Feb. This wasn't news to me and I don't understand why it is news to you guys. It wasn't a big secret. A second comment: The shortages of masks in this country at least is directly related to the fact that Trump didn't take seriously the warnings about the possibility of pandemic from the Obama administration. They were given a playbook that described what to do and they were given explicit warnings during the transition that it might happen. But the playbook was discarded and the warnings unheeded. I won't go through yet again all of the other things that the Trump admin discarded w/r/t pandemics, that has been done several times already. But it is clear that they didn't take the possibility seriously even when the mysterious illness showed up in China in January. Everything will be fine, Trump repeatedly said. The partial banning of flights from China was the one thing that they did and that was half assed with many exemptions plus they didn't ban flights from anywhere else so if someone really wanted to get to the States, it would have been easy to do despite the ban. And in any case they didn't bother to test anyone who came back from China or from Europe; for that matter, they didn't even have any effective tests in February. So while I can get to some extent that he is angry at the Fed and Central Banks generally, he should be angry at the Trump admin too. In fact, first. Along, perhaps, with the Chinese govt. They both made some pretty big mistakes.