According to a Wall Street Journal story of June 29 ("Masks Could Help Stop Coronavirus. So Why Are They Still Controversial?"), Dr. Anthony Fauci confirmed a hypothesis I proposed in an Econlog post of the same day: the long-lasting detrimental advice by the US government against ordinary people wearing masks was motivated by their shortage. This shortage was itself created by the governments’ own price-controls and their efforts to commandeer the consequently insufficient quantity supplied. The WSJ writes: White House...