The moral decision heads of state need to take due to a
shortage of face masks in the market, as they don’t want to create a public panic that would lead to mask
hoarding, which would endanger the lives of unmasked medical personnel and
frontline workers.
With the pandemic crisis worsening, and not wanting to alarm the public by telling them the painful truth of a
dearth of mask supply, politically vulnerable heads of state need to make up their minds whether
to mask or not to mask the population—which decision would minimize the number of
infections and deaths?
