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Originally Posted by T-Rock
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I have seen that happen with the Ebola scare a few years ago.
ALL the PPE gets bought up, then prices soar (kind of like ammo did a few years ago) and it is scarce.
It is interesting that physicians in Italy wore PPE, to include masks, during the Black Plague
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor
I'm thinking the mask looks almost like some of Louis Pasteur's swan neck bottles that began our understanding of germ theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease