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Re:E-VENT: Emergency ventilator design toolbox by coliveira on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:43PM (#22730248)
> Three months ago there were rumors that there was something brewing in some part of China

I disagree. Anyone paying attention knew, in the first weeks of January, that something very dangerous was happening. Moreover, we cannot equate the US government to a common person. They have the most expensive intelligence apparatus in the world. And we have an expensive government exactly to protect the population against real threats like this.

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Re:E-VENT: Emergency ventilator design toolbox by paulmd on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:24PM (#22730685)
Congress was even briefed as such. They then went and sold their stocks, while downplaying it to the rest of us.

AOC is right, it's time to make stock trading flat-out illegal for members of congress. They hold index funds or nothing.

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Re:E-VENT: Emergency ventilator design toolbox by extrapickles on Monday March 30, 2020 @07:05PM (#22733085)
They should also be restricted to buying/selling with a 1-2 quarter lag on the buy/sell order to prevent them from dumping the indexes when they learn of something that will move the entire market like the current situation.
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Re:E-VENT: Emergency ventilator design toolbox by abraae on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:41PM (#22730858)
They could have dumped their index funds for cash for a huge profit.
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