it's the flip side of what we were seeing a few years ago. When a pandemic is peaking and demand is high for crucial medical tech, the price will ride the demand all the way to the max. Which <i>will</i> kill people if the price is too high. and it costs countries dearly to have to rely on private enterprise to provide essential public health services.<p>I think situations like pandemics which could end a civilization if a vaccine couldn't be distributed trumps the usual capitalist shell game of surge pricing.