If I need a ventilator I hope I get one of these. /S
Mess with the bull, you’re gonna get the horns.
Just 24 hours ago, media was criticizing him for not using the DPA.
I thought GM, Ford and Tesla were retooling their factories to make them?
I wonder if there will “Monday” ventilators? Personally, they are one of last companies I’d want building ventilators. Or any union facility for that matter.
It seems a tad autocratic to me.
However...
"The Defense Production Act contains three major sections."
"The first authorizes the president to require businesses to accept and prioritize contracts which he deems necessary for national defense. It also allows the president to designate materials to be prohibited from hoarding or price gouging."
"The second section authorizes the president to establish mechanisms (such as regulations, orders or agencies) to allocate materials, services and facilities to promote national defense."
"The third section authorizes the president to control the civilian economy so that scarce and/or critical materials necessary to the national defense effort are available for defense needs."
just one facility lordstown ohio?, isn’t the facility shutdown already.
There is ZERO evidence that we have a shortage of ventilators.
Seasonal influenza - at its peak in January and February - had NO shortage of ventilators.
We have had a minimum of 400,000 hospitalizations for influenza in the last 5.5 months.
COVID-19 hospitalizations are no where near that number.
If COVID-19 sends 20% of victims to the hospital - and it does not - that would be 20,000 hospitalizations in the last nine weeks for COVID-19.
Trump’s order for ventilators is based on a deranged prediction that we will have hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths.
This order may have been necessary — I remain unconvinced. Voluntary participation is far better. Volunteer corporations want to excel; conscripted corporations just want to avoid trouble. No command & control economy has come anywhere close to the success of free enterprise economies, in the long term. Trump’s ‘challenge’ approach is better, by far.
There can be little doubt that politics were a big factor. The MSM and other leftists hounding Trump to invoke the DPA, you’d think that his invoking it would shut them up.
Considerable, and rapid work is underway by entrepreneurs to turn CPAP machines into ventilators. Some medical facilities have been successful using a single ventilator for more than one patient, something not considered possible. Anethesia machines are also being employed as ventilators.
American ingenuity at work, not government bureaucrats.
Why just GM? Why not Ford and other manufacturers who can make ventilators, masks, protective gear, etc.?