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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Yea, last night I heard about the desire to split ventilators , and an interview with someone who is in the field. Seems like there are a lot of good reasons it's not a good idea.
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Madcap Compatriot |
While I agree this isn't necessarily the be-all end-all, I've heard recent calls for innovation and not accepting limitations and that "we can't do it" shouldn't be our mantra. Basically I completely agree with you. But we are talking about highly specialized machines in an "knifes edge" - life or death- Situation here. This is when you need a tested, reliable be-all, end-all machine. There is no need to construct a new type of ventilator by a firm that builds vacuum cleaners. Just licence an existing type to a competent firm, let them build it under supervision, test the quality, and voilá, more ventilators for everybody. On the plus side, you have even trained medical personnel for this type of ventilator. I just hope that noone of us will actually need one. Stay safe, all the best to you. | |||
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Given a choice between a Dyson ventilator and no ventilator at all, I'd go with the Dyson.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
You're both right.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Martin's idea is a good one except for one thing... Innovation meets reality, or another episode of the Let's Make a Deal chaotic presidency.
Rest of the story here, should be accessible to non-NYT subscribers. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0...ntilators-trump.html
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Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana |
Maybe we can get ol' "heck of a job" Brownie (Mike Brown) back at FEMA. Maybe someday this clown car will run out of gas and we can get some adults back in charge. I'd bet my lunchmoney that if anyone with the last name of "Trump" or "Kushner" needed a ventilator, they'd find one (and a couple spares) toot sweet. I also read somewhere that there are only about 100,000 people in the U.S. who are trained to operate a ventilator. And I also read that about 15% of medical professionals have tested positive or are showing symptoms (or maybe that was in the U.K. since I get most of my news from Auntie Beeb). How big a crisis does this need to be before I-1 will figure out that it's a crisis?
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
So at today's presser he was asked about what went wrong with GM. He babbled on about how GM, before his presidency, moved plants to other countries ("I won't mention the countries"), and left a plant in Ohio high and dry. "I wasn't a fan going into this" (referencing the effort to get GM to build ventilators). I don't get it. Wasn't he crowing about a GM deal just like a week ago? Who got to him to piss on GM? This is infuriating.
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Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana |
It's all about him. It always has been. It always will be.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
I just caught the rest of the story.
Geezles.
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Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana |
GM was wasting time???
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Minor Deity |
100,000? Well if WE have extras, we can take care of other countries... He means SELL them...
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Minor Deity |
Coronavirus: Tesla donates hundreds of ventilators to New York https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52071314
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Minor Deity |
MIT has an open source plan as of yesterday.. MIT's ventilator
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