BREAKING: President Trump invokes Defense Production Act requiring General Motors to "accept, perform, and prioritize federal contracts for ventilators."
POTUS says #COVID19 is too urgent to "allow the give and take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course" pic.twitter.com/MZnIt6Lb3r— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) March 27, 2020
The Daily Mail has managed to both out-left the Guardian and out lie virtually every other news source in the multiverse.
Congratulations, dorks.
You might be able to make a thousand new ventilators in a month. Or ten thousand.
The respiratory therapists required to run them need 2-3 years of training. Each.
Less time, maybe, in an emergency, but still much longer that it takes to mass-produce machines.
Why is everybody talking about machines, and not the trained humans who run them while they are keeping other humans alive?
It’s not The Matrix: patients not yet just pod people all hooked to machines and overseen by computers.
It’s trained, caring humans keeping the suffocating CV patients alive. Ventilators are just the tool that the trained humans need to do their job.
I wish this was emphasized on every TV broadcast about #s of ventilators.
You can’t mass produce respiratory therapists, nurses and doctors. Emergency or no emergency. There is always the human element.
Daily Mail -read no further if you want to know about this look elsewhere.
GM just appointed a Chinese national as their CIO.
If I come out of the hospital after being on a GM ventilator and sound like this I’d be happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_FSicQWimU
GM sold the plant, the new owners plan to make electric trucks.
I would find it difficult to trust a Chevy ventilator. ;)
Will medical workers have to slam the doors on those General Motors ventilators to get them closed?
Bernie Sanders couldn’t have commanded it any better! It is Government Motors after all.
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Trump ORDERS GM to open their shuttered Ohio plant and ‘start making ventilators NOW’ as he threatens to invoke special defense powers claiming company tried to price gouge
Daily Mail ^ | 3/27/2020 | Geoff Earle
Posted on 3/27/2020, 4:41:16 PM by Zenyatta