# The White House nixed a plan in April to send every household masks

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 18, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-nixed-a-plan-in-april-to-send-every-household-masks/920887 "2020-09-18T03:43:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-nixed-a-plan-in-april-to-send-every-household-masks/920887/1 "2020-09-18T03:43:44Z")

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[White House Blocked USPS From Sending Face Masks to All Households](https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-blocked-usps-from-sending-face-masks-to-all-households-2020-9)

Wow, what a great idea this would have been. And the incompetent, corrupt, and dishonest clowns in the White House stopped it.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-nixed-a-plan-in-april-to-send-every-household-masks/920887/2 "2020-09-18T04:35:07Z")

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That is, surprisingly, an example of actual competency and coherence in policy. If that plan had not been 86ed, then 45’s 1600 would be shown to be in complete disarray.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-nixed-a-plan-in-april-to-send-every-household-masks/920887/3 "2020-09-18T15:58:18Z")

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While a discussion of masks is appropriate for QZ, this seems to focus more on the politics behind it, which makes it more of a political topic. Moving to P&E.

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**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-nixed-a-plan-in-april-to-send-every-household-masks/920887/4 "2020-09-18T17:20:42Z")

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I thought about this in march when the north east shut down. send out masks through the post, for people who don’t have post have them at outreach services.

of course one would need to have a government that wears masks and advocates their use.