Coronavirus, skyrocketing prices for gel and masks: Amazon wand speculators in Italy and abroad

THE HISTORY of the speculation on Amazon, and ecommerce platforms, for products such as masks and, in the case of italy, Amuchina or otherwise disinfectant gel, is widening. Become a symbol, for the masks to be little sense scientifically, of the spread of the infection from Covid-19 and of the attempt to contain it, were snapped in different Countries. Italy included, where they seem to be impossible to find in pharmacies and supermarkets. So, on the online marketplace, prices are skyrocketing. If Amazon stepped in, in a relatively timely manner, by removing the most extraordinary cases, the same can not be said of other platforms: on eBay, for example, still ads for a single mask to 50 or 60 euros and the descriptions misleading and totally devoid of scientific basis as “antivirus” or “virus protection Covid”.