If masks worked for medical professionals, they would work for regular people. That's the falsity of the argument especially in a PANDEMIC ("Pandemic refers to an epidemic that has spread over several countries or continents, usually affecting a large number of people.") That's why it is so serious to not give out false information.
Stockpiles of medical equipment is part of every states' plan. You constantly make it a federal plan. The Feds can't act without the States requesting aid. New York originally had a plan to purchase a lot of ventilators. They chose to reduce their ventilator stockpiles to fund other priorities.
"How New York City’s Emergency Ventilator Stockpile Ended Up on the Auction Block
A 2006 pandemic plan warned that New York City could be short as many as 9,500 ventilators. But the city only acquired a few hundred, which were ultimately scrapped because it couldn’t afford to maintain them."
The mask shortage was evidently caused by transferring our medical supply chain to China, which the current President has remedied after the fact. So we weren't as prepared due to our trade policy.
The question is do you want to return to what it was like before. I'm pretty sure Biden want to return relations with China to what it was before. This is knowing China has new infectious diseases to worry about like bubonic plague. "A 3-year-old boy in China has been infected with bubonic plague, according to a report. The child, from Menghai county, located in Yunnan Province in southwestern China, suffered a mild infection but is now in stable condition following treatment, the Global Times of India reported. No other infections have reportedly been identified."
