I want to know what steps have been taken to assure a sufficient supply of ventilators since the outbreak. By how much will we be able to expand our hospital bed, ICU and ventilator capacities? And what have we done to assure that we have sufficient trained medical personnel to handle this, especially since we will likely lose a number of them to illness as well.
Same, are we rush-building factories to produce these goods? If not, why not?
we have the best medical care in the world, i should know, i had pneumonia after getting a liver transplant. (my work insurance paid (~2 million usd for me)
but we can’t handle the amount of people that would need to be hook up to vent.
None of those are US Government problems. The government doesn’t own ventilator factories. The government doesn’t expand hospital bed capacities. The Government doesn’t produce medical personnel.
Government policies can only impede those efforts. New ones especially will do so.
On the other hand, if the government suspended it’s meddling, capitalism would utterly astonish you at the speed it would fill those needs.
BUT if you wanted to produce ventilators, build and expand hospitals, train new medical personnel and were ready to start today... an avalanche of Government and HHS and other regulatory BS would bury you.
The answer is not the that government should “do something”.
if you are not already trained to deal with these illnesses it’s too late. Last thing we need is amateur hour. it takes years of training training to be a nurse and years beyond that to be a doctor