cloudartisans

For products like hand sanitizer and masks, why can't there be orderly queues, with quotas, so that everyone can be treated fairly? As a software engineer, I find myself seriously considering writing scrapers to watch over the product pages and notify my wife when something is in stock. It's madness for her to be clicking a dozen pages throughout the day to try and "snag" a couple of these in-demand products.

It seems so easy to grab a couple of engineers and implement a rudimentary pre-order system (pretty sure they already have pre-ordering of some sort).

Anyone with the inside knowledge know what's going on? Is this a political issue?

This is a serious question, given what's going on in Brazil! I look at the following two data sources and am trying to understand what's going on behind the scenes. Thanks in advance!

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=fin&q=NYSEARCA:+EWZ