• procrastitron@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      It wasn’t being marketed and sold as a meme product. It was being marketed and sold as critical safety equipment.

      On top of that, it was being sold during a pandemic when such equipment was being used continuously by large segments of the population.

      It shouldn’t be surprising that large numbers of people bought it; the company selling it lied to those people to trick them into buying it.