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Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators by mhb on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:30PM (#22723381)
The question in a lot of ways is how many exponential doublings do we have to have before this situation switches in peoples' minds from a peace-time inconvenience to essentially real war.

Indeed. I was organizing some people to make face shields and was looking for a big room. When I talked to the city about using a school gym, one of the criteria was that everyone needed to have background checks. Because it would be in a school!

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Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators by jjeaff on Monday March 30, 2020 @12:18AM (#22725206)
An empty school, at that.
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Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators by mistermann on Monday March 30, 2020 @12:29AM (#22725247)
I wonder if that decision was optimal for the circumstances, and if not, what actions we could take as a society to improve upon it?
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