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Coronavirus shakes the conceit of ‘American exceptionalism’

“[The pandemic] turned a Massachusetts hospital executive into an under-the-radar road warrior, working up a deal through a friend of a friend of an employee who heard about a warehouse more than five hours away with masks. Two tractor-trailers disguised as grocery trucks picked them up, dodged interference from Homeland Security and took separate routes back in case one load got intercepted on highways through the northeast “pandemic alley.”

(https://apnews.com/1283d176484e133f31080227bb15c5d1)