- Michael Bowen: I'm a salesman telling a story nobody believes, the story that the U.S. mask supply is gonna collapse, and people are gonna die, and it doesn't cost much to fix. That's the story.
- Michael Bowen: I'm getting five-hundred to one-thousand emails a day. I'm getting email from people, not businesses. I'm getting emails from moms. I'm getting emails from old people, 'Please send me masks,'
- [chokes up]
- Michael Bowen: and I can't.
- [chokes up again, lip quivers]
- Michael Bowen: I can't help all these people.
- Bob Kadlec: The whole philosophy of the task force was that the government can't get things done and they thought the private market could largely settle this issue, but it was only once they had tried and failed that they started to blame other people and say, 'Actually this was your job the whole time.'
- Francis Riedo: Now that we're all wearing masks all the time, there is an astounding amount of information that you can get out of looking at people's eyes, which when the rest of your face is completely obscured, becomes extremely telling of what's going on, whether your eyes are happy or sad or smiling.
- Max Kennedy: The whole philosophy of the task force was that the government can't get things done and they thought the private market could largely settle this issue, but it was only once they had tried and failed that they started to blame other people and say, 'Actually this was your job the whole time.'
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