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Re:WHO: COVID-19 in 29 countries last Monday, now 56 by remarkEon on Friday February 28, 2020 @08:22PM (#22448003)
Sure. It would take a WWII-level mobilization to do so, and some very hard trolley_problem.jpg choices about what to do. Even then I'm still skeptical. Let's take medical devices, for example. So we could, temporarily, nationalize a PCB fab in the US to make the circuit boards ... but do we even have the gerber files? Do we have the human capital to QA a new process? How long for tooling on the rest of the mechanicals?

I hope that, deep in the Pentagon, someone is asking these questions. Not necessarily because of COVID-19, but just in general.

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