"Tea Party" Republicans undermined the US stockpile of N95 masks. They pretend that no one could have guessed that the US would need hundreds of millions of masks, but they didn't need to guess, only to listen. Their ideological opposition to making use of government to serve all of society throws us into helpless dependence on the plutocrats that they serve. We need to reclaim control of the state, so that it can do the many jobs that only a state can do.