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Quoted from Jaybird815:Trump invokes defense act to have GM start making ventilators
https://apple.news/ANDKwRq3URRW5NmUFanqn7g
So how does this work exactly?
Quoted from cait001:bless all of you here who helps keep us grounded and back to pinball
Thanks!
And yes, with .006% of the world population testing positive of which I am not one of, and me rarely getting ill, I'll take my chances.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:So how does this work exactly?
GM is required to start production, not sure of specifics, but they don’t have a choice
Quoted from CrazyLevi:So how does this work exactly?
+1
What kind of ramp up time is involved in this, I would imagine it is months at best?
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But I must confess, being 57 years, overweight, having diabetes and high blood pressure (even though they are in control by medication) I am getting a bit scared. Not only for myself but my two cats if something serious happens.
Good luck to you all.
Quoted from Jaybird815:Trump invokes defense act to have GM start making ventilators
https://apple.news/ANDKwRq3URRW5NmUFanqn7g
Boom
Quoted from Atari_Daze:+1
What kind of ramp up time is involved in this, I would imagine it is months at best?
They’ve already started production, but numbers were low and prices were high, He really tore into their CEO
Quoted from Jaybird815:Trump invokes defense act to have GM start making ventilators
https://apple.news/ANDKwRq3URRW5NmUFanqn7g
I'd prefer Honda or Toyota make my ventilator.
Quoted from Tuukka:I am getting a bit scared. Not only for myself but my two cats if something serious happens.
You know they would only wait a day before starting to consume your corpse right?
Quoted from Atari_Daze:+1
What kind of ramp up time is involved in this, I would imagine it is months at best?
Much sooner and here is what GM said prior to the DPA act being used. According to the article a plant in Warren Michigan will start making medical masks next week with 50,000 being able to be made per day. Go GM!
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/gm-confirms-production-of-ventilators-following-trump-criticism.html
Quoted from mcluvin:I'd prefer Honda or Toyota make my ventilator.
Yea, will the GM units have the extra warranty, with road hazard?
Quoted from Atari_Daze:You know they would only wait a day before starting to consume your corpse right?
That's the post of the day right there.
This talks about what I posted earlier regarding an earlier possible timeline of the virus and everyone mistaking it for the flu/pneumonia.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/italian-scientists-investigate-possible-earlier-151108674.html
Quoted from swampfire:At this point we're just fighting math. 30% increase per day makes me want to become a loan shark:[quoted image]
I posted this chart about 8 days ago, and I was off by a day for the 100k mark. I’ll hedge for the 1M mark, because I think/hope we’re slowing this thing down. With a 20% daily growth rate, we won’t get to 1 million until April 10, which ironically is Good Friday.
Also...we’re probably at the point where we need to start looking at deaths per day to get a better idea of where we really stand. Inconsistent or no testing here makes the # of infected pretty useless as a forecasting tool.
Oh, and it should have said April for the 1M date, not May.
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Editing to add this: if the growth in the death rate holds steady at 30%, we’ll also be looking at over 60,000 deaths by Good Friday. 
Quoted from o-din:And yes, with .006% of the world population testing positive of which I am not one of
I choose to read this as you declaring that you're not a member of the world population 
Quoted from Jaybird815:They’ve already started production, but numbers were low and prices were high, He really tore into their CEO
Not true in first part as far as ventilators. They hadn’t lifted more than a pen on production. Also the bulk of the high price was cost of retooling.
So now GM gets to eat the cost? Does the government get to decide the price? That’s where I am fuzzy.
EDIT: also he wants them to reopen a plant that shut awhile ago and recently sold. How’s that going to work?
Dont know if this was posted, but this should be shared, with royalties, IMOO.
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/26/tech/dyson-ventilators-coronavirus/index.html
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Quoted from mcluvin:I'd prefer Honda or Toyota make my ventilator.
Are you going to deny the use of a GM made ventilator if you are hospitalized? 1000 of their workers are going to be making them and putting their own health on the line to save others. This is the first time since WW2 that something like this has happened. Be happy, and be proud that General Motors is the first auto maker in the US to start production.
Quoted from Oaken:Not true in first part as far as ventilators. They hadn’t lifted more than a pen on production. Also the bulk of the high price was cost of retooling.
So now GM gets to eat the cost? Does the government get to decide the price? That’s where I am fuzzy.
I think that’s why he did it, they were supposed to be making them already and said they’d have 40,000 by end of April, then said they’d only have 6,000
Quoted from cait001:I choose to read this as you declaring that you're not a member of the world population
I come from Uranus.
Quoted from arcademojo:The mask shortage is over!
Hmmm, smells fishy to me.
Well I’m glad that GM has been ordered to make tens of thousands of ventilators that last night we were told aren’t needed lol.
I am happy to see the action. Speaks louder than words.
On the one hand, yay ventilators. On the other hand, daaaaaamn.
Eh, the other hand can worry about that stuff after everyone can breathe.
Quoted from Tuukka:Do you have Klingons at Uranus?
No, we wiped them out. No shortages here.
I think theres a big benefit in using the DPA in that it will light a fire under the ass of companies that are thankfully already stepping up to the plate to make medical equipment. Theres a big difference in someone telling their boss "sure, I'll have that done in two weeks" and your boss telling you "you have 3 days".
Quoted from PanzerFreak:Are you going to deny the use of a GM made ventilator if you are hospitalized? 1000 of their workers are going to be making them and putting their own health on the line to save others. This is the first time since WW2 that something like this has happened. Be happy, and be proud that General Motors is the first auto maker in the US to start production.
I'm going to make my own using this UF professor's design. I've already got most of this shi* in my garage.
Quoted from Jaybird815:GM is required to start production, not sure of specifics, but they don’t have a choice
Ah, just like the good old days.
Pontiac-1600x900 (resized).jpgQuoted from arcademojo:The mask shortage is over![quoted image]
It's one thing to do this at home...it's an entirely different thing to actually go out in public.
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