# Someone selling N95 masks on local Facebook group.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-selling-n95-masks-on-local-facebook-group/850173>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 24, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-selling-n95-masks-on-local-facebook-group/850173 "2020-03-24T12:44:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-selling-n95-masks-on-local-facebook-group/850173/1 "2020-03-24T12:44:16Z")

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Who can I report them to?

Yes, I’ve reported them to the group administrators, but those people are useless.

And it occurred to me that these may be stolen. Or fake

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-selling-n95-masks-on-local-facebook-group/850173/2 "2020-03-24T14:30:11Z")

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Do you know where they’re located? Contact their county board of health, or their county attorney general, or their county sheriff.

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**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-selling-n95-masks-on-local-facebook-group/850173/3 "2020-03-24T16:29:43Z")

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I saw a report on Reddit about a local hospital having had two crates of supplies stolen. I’d report to the police, they might be looking for them already.

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-selling-n95-masks-on-local-facebook-group/850173/4 "2020-03-24T20:49:36Z")

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Or, it could be someone that had a stock of masks for construction work or something, and they are just selling them to others who currently need them more.

I just found a 10-pack of N-95 masks in my hobby room I bought a couple of years ago for a project. I can’t decide if I should keep them for ourselves or donate them to the local clinic. But if someone had a stock of 1,000 of them for their business, they might consider selling them to help get through their business shutdown.