The thing that gets me about that is we were being told to not even use homemade cloth masks. They weren't shown to work and might even increase risk because people wouldn't know to wash them and they'd hold onto particles. Hell, I know healthcare facilities in my local area that were short on normal masks such that they wouldn't even let staff use them for patients who they'd been required for previously, and those facilities outright prohibited fabric masks being used as a "better than nothing" option.

Now places are still telling people to not wear any hospital tier masks but mandating cloth face coverings and disposable masks too cheap for healthcare worker use. Did we also have a shortage of fabric scraps? If not, why the fuck were they not pushing those from the start?