A production line can only produce one thing at a time, they then have to retool to produce something else.
The only way we could do what you’re suggesting is to keep those factories producing these items even when they’re not even needed, which would require unlimited government money and then we have to find a place to store it all.
In the real world that’s not going to happen, they will make what’s profitable at any given time and when it’s no longer profitable they will retool and they will produce something else.
IT’S A ■■■■■■■ QUOTE ON VIDEOTAPE.
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It’s cherry-picked BS.
Listen to the last 20 seconds of that clip.
What makes you think I didn’t?
Because I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Now I see that belief was unwarranted.
BS.
If Donald Trump didn’t mean what he said, he shouldn’t have said it. Emphasizing the stupidest thing someone says is not taking them out of context. You really should figure that out.
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Camp
2119
This is where you need GM engineers to design a ventilator that uses tooling and material they have…like interior duct…fan…filters.
First you got a particle size issue their second think of Apollo 13 and what’s required to go from start to finish.
Once they build a box that work in the hospital setting and then come up with a filter that will work with the appropriate particle sizes they have to match that up to the hoses that go to the mask.
It’s not that simple.
Camp
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It is a challenge.
I think they can do it. Getting the filter mesh small enough while allowing adequate flow is the key. Plumbing and power and control are easy.
The biggest issue is going to be what’s available in the supply chain.
Remember most of those cheap little small industrial items are not made in the United States anymore.
Snow96
2123
So there will now be a mandate on medical companies to produce and keep a set amount of stockpile for emergencies?
There is no mandate that car companies have excess inventory. Most only keep a 28 day supply of vehicles. If you translated what’s going on in the medical industry to car sales – that 28 day inventory would have been gone the first week.
NickN
2124
Let’s try this a different way. According to the AmericanPress Institute polling data in May 2017:
“Trust in news depends on which news media you mean”
Their findings show that on many fronts, Americans are skeptical of “the news media” in the abstract,
but generally trust the news they themselves rely on.
And most people mention traditional or mainstream news sources as the ones they turn to.
As an example, only 24% of Americans say they believe the news media in general are “moral”.
But the # more than doubles, to 53% when re-asked about the news media they use most often.
Thus, it’s understood that CNN or any other outlet can express their disapproving viewpoints.
Censoring is not the issue.
Rather it’s purporting this abbreviated clip is accurate standing on its own.
Even though this sly form of misreporting is fair game,
nothing stops viewing audiences these days to see for themselves “uncensored” the POTUS and VP…
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JayJay
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I think what we are finding here is that when you have hundreds of thousands of people all over the world that have the same illness at the same time, with a small but significant portion of them requiring hospitalization/ICU at about the same time…you are going to have supply issues.
This is why the key to this is not let it get out of control.
This is why aggressive testing/contact tracing/quarantine is so critical.
You can have a strategic stockpile…the stockpile has to be swapped out every so often. But the stockpile alone is not enough.
But the key learning is you can’t let it get to this point.
Western thinking on this is going to have to change.
And friggin’ China is going to have to learn that what affects them affects the world.
Every country will…you have an outbreak in your country…you HAVE to assume worst case even before there is evidence of worst case.
Better to overreact early than wait until it’s too late.
tnt
2126
excellent breakdown of our response.
No…the government can just order them and stockpile them like they have. You just increase the number of your stockpiles.
Why is this even a thing? Holy crap.
Auto129
2128
The clip is accurate standing on its own, unless the president is lying about what he says to Pence.
“I say, ‘Mike, don’t call the governor of Washington; you’re wasting your time with him. Don’t call the woman in Michigan. It doesn’t make any difference what happens.’”
Facepalm…nobody is talking about mandates or whatever you are talking about.
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Snow96
2130
So this is another 20/20 hindsight that the government didn’t stock pile enough stuff and now we need to do so for the possability of anything like this in the future?
I figured the statement was clear enough.
Absent A War, or Declared National emergency the federal government has no such Authority.
Even under such conditions where are you going to store all of these supplies?
What do you do about those that are perishable?
How are you going to pay for this?
How do you determine what supplies you’re going to demand be produced and in what volume?
