Now we're learning that Trump has ordered 3M to stop sending N95 masks to Canada. Just great!

The other night i was watching a very good documentary on PBS about the 1918 flu pandemic. Medical authorities learned many things from the pandemic. At first they believed they had developed a vaccine for the bacteria. But they realized it wasn't working since it wasn't a bacteria. It was a virus, which at the time wasn't visible under the microscopes they were using at the time. So how can you develop a cure to something you can't see?
Everyone was wearing masks in public but people were still being infected as ever! They realized masks were inneffective against millions of the virus' particles in the air. Those millions of particles could very easily get through the masks. N95 masks have since been invented but they are not effective for everyone. For example i got tested several times over the years for the N95 mask and although it was a great mask for me to wear in the past over time it was no longer effective for me since it didn't make a perfect seal with my face. Therefore i had to wear other types of masks.
One thing i learned about the 1918 flu in the documentary is that the pandemic ended fairly abrupty over the following year or two. Experts concluded that the virus simply ran out of hosts where it could live in & continue to spread itself. By that time people had either died from it or the ones who survived had developed antibodies to it due to previous infection.
So until each person (healthy or not) can get tested on this planet and a vaccine is invented then the only hope we seem to have is social distancing. Social distancing works but everyone has to be on board. You can't have states telling people to stay home & apart from one another and other states (all red states, by the way) ignoring the directives & trying to live life just like the coronarivus doesn't exist. It's like a swimming pool. You can have 10 people in the swimming pool and 9 out of those 10 people don't pee in the pool while only 1 person out of those decides to pee in the pool. It's only 1 out of 10 people who peed in the pool but because of that 1 idiot the entire pool is now infected with pee!