Again, it's so reassuring that President Trump wants to make sure the cruise ship industry is carried through these hard times. Such a higher priority than getting auto manufacturers to produce the respirators that hospitals so desperately need these days.
Retooling companies to make an unconnected product in a short timescale is dumb, usually easier to get an existing company to ramp up production.
Ventilators are not jeeps or ammo boxes.
Ventilators are not jeeps or ammo boxes.
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Yes, dilbert. The auto industry is incapable of deemphasizing regular production if need be, bringing in experts and retooling in times of great crisis under contract from the government. Never been done.
Foolish of me to assume.
Foolish of me to assume.
It would probably be a whole lot quicker to get a vacuum cleaner company to do it.
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Dyson and maybe Gtech are on the list. But also so is Ford in cooperation with 3M and GE Healthcare. Probably doomed to fail, right? A VeNtILaToR iS NoT a JeEp.
3/2020:
https://madison.com/lifestyles/technolo … f3410.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal … SKBN21B1PD
This could have been older news with a little less sitting on of the hands.
3/2020:
https://madison.com/lifestyles/technolo … f3410.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal … SKBN21B1PD
This could have been older news with a little less sitting on of the hands.
Or a fan company. I'm sure Greenheck or Cook would make more sense than GM.Dilbert_X wrote:
It would probably be a whole lot quicker to get a vacuum cleaner company to do it.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
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Liberty University let more than 1,000 students return to campus during the coronavirus outbreak | cnn, 3/24
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/us/liber … index.html
Colleges are emptying because of coronavirus. Liberty University is inviting students back usatoday, 3/24
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/edu … 2911751001
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/p … lwell.html
New York Times misleads public about extent of COVID-19 symptoms among Liberty University students | liberty university response, 3/29
http://www.liberty.edu/news/index.cfm?P … MID=379359
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/us/liber … index.html
Colleges are emptying because of coronavirus. Liberty University is inviting students back usatoday, 3/24
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/edu … 2911751001
Liberty University Brings Back Its Students, and Coronavirus Fears, Too | nyt, 3/29Most of the students are not at risk because of their age, President Jerry Falwell Jr. argued in an interview with the News and Advance in Lynchburg.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/p … lwell.html
New York Times misleads public about extent of COVID-19 symptoms among Liberty University students | liberty university response, 3/29
http://www.liberty.edu/news/index.cfm?P … MID=379359
Students should probably have been quarantined on their campuses, honestly. Instead, they got released and acted as vectors, bringing it back to their homes.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
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Awful idea. The colleges would become virus breeding grounds. It's also unlikely that professors would continue to show up for class.Jay wrote:
Students should probably have been quarantined on their campuses, honestly. Instead, they got released and acted as vectors, bringing it back to their homes.
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Jerry Falwell is an actual literal cuck. He lets a personal trainer screw his wife. He is also a Trump supporter and does whatever pleases his orange God.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Liberty University let more than 1,000 students return to campus during the coronavirus outbreak | cnn, 3/24
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/us/liber … index.html
Colleges are emptying because of coronavirus. Liberty University is inviting students back usatoday, 3/24
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/edu … 2911751001Liberty University Brings Back Its Students, and Coronavirus Fears, Too | nyt, 3/29Most of the students are not at risk because of their age, President Jerry Falwell Jr. argued in an interview with the News and Advance in Lynchburg.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/p … lwell.html
New York Times misleads public about extent of COVID-19 symptoms among Liberty University students | liberty university response, 3/29
http://www.liberty.edu/news/index.cfm?P … MID=379359
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“It feels very militaristic,” she said. “I’m just like, ‘What the hell, is this 1940s Germany?’”
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the far-right want people to die in exchange for market gains. who knew?
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The free market will always be there to raise your grandchildren.
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Good priorities.
I can't wrap my head around the notion that people prefer him over literally anyone else. No-one , current or past candidates, would be even close to the international embarrassment Donald Trump is. His performance is disgraceful every step of the way. Literally anyone would've been smarter and more dignified than this narcissistic a-hole.
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I actually respect the work the governor of NY is doing. I live so close to Manhattan (closer than Jay in fact) that his press conferences are always on T.V. I do not watch anything Trump says because it is all lies.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo is seeing a massive boost in popularity among state residents during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Siena College poll.
“In the midst of this global pandemic, New Yorkers approve of Governor Cuomo’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic with near universal support,” said pollster Steven Greenberg. “At least 85 percent of voters from every region approve of his handling of the crisis, as do 95 percent of Democrats, 87 percent of independents and even 70 percent of Republicans.”
what sort of dystopia is it where the president gets off on his tv ratings, all because of a pandemic that he has allowed to get out of control?
it's a pretty sick logic. it would be like GWB bragging about how 9/11 made him the man of the hour. 'yeah, it was a tragedy, but wow! was it an opportunity for me to go down in history!'.
it's a pretty sick logic. it would be like GWB bragging about how 9/11 made him the man of the hour. 'yeah, it was a tragedy, but wow! was it an opportunity for me to go down in history!'.
President Trump is a living incarnation of the quest for ratings. That tweet doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
Someone I went to high school with who's active in local government posted this:
"Let’s all be respectful of each other’s decisions whether they choose to social distance or not. Last I checked we are a free country"
"Let’s all be respectful of each other’s decisions whether they choose to social distance or not. Last I checked we are a free country"
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Thank God we have Trump managing this crisis instead of that cunt Clinton though. Clinton would have used this global health emergency to pass socialized healthcare in America. Trump is going to let the free market works its magic and bailout the insurance companies with taxpayer money when they fail. None of this would have happened if we didn't pass Obamacare anyway.
From here everything he's done looks like an inept disaster and New York like 20 trainwrecks all converging to a single point, with another set of trainwrecks heading out into the rest of America.SuperJail Warden wrote:
I actually respect the work the governor of NY is doing. I live so close to Manhattan (closer than Jay in fact) that his press conferences are always on T.V. I do not watch anything Trump says because it is all lies.
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The mayor of NYC, a different guy, made a mistake I think by not shutting down the schools earlier. There is a lot that is out of both of their hands. They literally do not have the authority to spend a billion of our fake monopoly money to buy ventilators like the president does.Dilbert_X wrote:
From here everything he's done looks like an inept disaster and New York like 20 trainwrecks all converging to a single point, with another set of trainwrecks heading out into the rest of America.SuperJail Warden wrote:
I actually respect the work the governor of NY is doing. I live so close to Manhattan (closer than Jay in fact) that his press conferences are always on T.V. I do not watch anything Trump says because it is all lies.
I acknowledge that I and a lot of other New Yorkers might just be relieved to have a representative or leader who can speak calmly and on point about the ongoing crisis every day unlike this guy.
And I think that is something a lot of Trump supporters will never understand about why so many people hate him and want him dead. The best leaders inspire hope and confidence and Trump does neither.
Even this failure knew how to at least pull people together.
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Since when did state governors wear shirts with government shields embroidered into them?SuperJail Warden wrote:
Sad!
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Were either of these guys in the military?
Just wondering.
Just wondering.
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america is a militarised state, what do you expect. they love jackboots and a frisson of fascism.
in the same time period, america has had 3100 deaths and south korea 160. SK is much closer to the source of the outbreak and the majority of its population live in giant urban centres. they both reported their first case on the same day. interesting comparison.
washpo reported today that trump and the white house ignored the early warning from the seemingly ineffective national security council. sad! when will jay and the quislings admit their man is a busted flush?
in the same time period, america has had 3100 deaths and south korea 160. SK is much closer to the source of the outbreak and the majority of its population live in giant urban centres. they both reported their first case on the same day. interesting comparison.
washpo reported today that trump and the white house ignored the early warning from the seemingly ineffective national security council. sad! when will jay and the quislings admit their man is a busted flush?
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