Actually, this would script out real good for a reality TV series....Vent-A-Truck. You have four trucks touring the US with ventilators in the back....going state-by-state....some go to an empty building in Omaha. Some go to a basement in Tampa. You introduce political guys who show up with PR teams to accept the ventilators, but immediately show the same ventilators going out of the backdoor to the next PR opportunity.
With Florida’s high level of ground water, basements are exceptionally rare, so delivery instructions that designated “a basement in Tampa” would yield reality TV comedy gold.