I meant that it was sad that there's already the possibility of individual people stockpiling because they are panicking (I just always feels sad when we see people start hoarding when it should be directed to public institutions that are best equipped to deal with public health emergencies).
If it makes you feel any better, we're a big enough company that we're not selling to the general public. So most of the people calling in and asking for more are public institutions (the ones that are more likely to be denied are the small municipalities that don't normally purchase these items, or only do so a few times a year).
About the only exception to that is, for example, during the SARS outbreak Shoppers Drug Mart (or similar), who isn't normally a customer of ours, ordered an entire truck load of face masks for their stores. I doubt we'd be able to help them at the moment if they were to do that again.