I want to go agro on US govt liars who damage trust, try to manipulate people and don't promote honest information.
This wouldn't happen in the US because the prevailing attitude is "everyone for themselves; working together is communism." Oddly enough, parts of the Bay Area experienced "panic buying" of masks in early January: I was at a Walgreens on El Camino in Palo Alto when people were buzzing like bees around masks like they were toilet paper at Costco nowadays. IIRC, it was mostly persons of Asian ancestry because they follow the news and have friends and family overseas; a few globally-aware Caucasians did as well.
This wouldn't happen in the US because the prevailing attitude is "everyone for themselves; working together is communism." Oddly enough, parts of the Bay Area experienced "panic buying" of masks in early January: I was at a Walgreens on El Camino in Palo Alto when people were buzzing like bees around masks like they were toilet paper at Costco nowadays. IIRC, it was mostly persons of Asian ancestry because they follow the news and have friends and family overseas; a few globally-aware Caucasians did as well.