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Re:E-VENT: Emergency ventilator design toolbox by coliveira on Monday March 30, 2020 @05:35PM (#22732489)
No, $2.5Bi is not a lot of money to save thousands of lives. The US wastes untold billions of dollars with war equipment that will probably NEVER be used, on a yearly basis.
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Re:E-VENT: Emergency ventilator design toolbox by bayesian_horse on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @08:26AM (#22736822)
Again, politically, for this particular purpose, and on a risk that was considered extremely low, this kind of amount is a lot. And it wouldn't be enough to solve or avert the crisis.
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