Re:In Pursuit of PPE
by WorldMaker on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:08PM
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It seems to be happening at the individual state level, but without smarter coordination between states there's a lot being left on the table.
WWII had the benefit of an extent Works Progress Administration [1] that had lot of power to swing jobs between and among states. It also had a lot of little powers that added up, like the Federal Arts Project (FAP) that pulled together the artists to create such works of art as "Rosie the Riveter" to motivate.
Maybe little things like a Federal Dank Memes Project could help in a time like this, maybe not. The "Rosie the Riveter" equivalent memes are out there, in some states, scattered and crowd sourced to social media. That more states don't even realize what their neighbors are up to in mobilizing PPE is itself a failure in coordination at the Federal level.
As we get through this we're probably going to need to talk a lot about renewing the New Deal.
WWII had the benefit of an extent Works Progress Administration [1] that had lot of power to swing jobs between and among states. It also had a lot of little powers that added up, like the Federal Arts Project (FAP) that pulled together the artists to create such works of art as "Rosie the Riveter" to motivate.
Maybe little things like a Federal Dank Memes Project could help in a time like this, maybe not. The "Rosie the Riveter" equivalent memes are out there, in some states, scattered and crowd sourced to social media. That more states don't even realize what their neighbors are up to in mobilizing PPE is itself a failure in coordination at the Federal level.
As we get through this we're probably going to need to talk a lot about renewing the New Deal.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration