Shit is real, shit is raw, sometimes it's real raw....
What I don't get is this.....
Why aren't we assembling/manufacturing ventilators right now?
If this thing takes off and the rate of transmission hits anything close to peak curve rate then the biggest bottleneck that's going to kill the most people is the lack of ventilators.
Right now there is 160,000 ventilators in the US. If infection rate isn't able to be flattened and is towards peak curve rates....there will be close to 800,000 people that will require a ventilator to survive....just at peak. That doesn't factor in the 200K, 300K, 400K, 500K, 700K, etc. levels of people leading up to peak and after peak.
That is how this could very easily kill over a million people.
There will be make shift hospitals (think M*A*S*H*). Tents, warehouses, pole barns, people lined up in hallways. There's only 45K hospital beds in the US, but a warehouse can be filled full of beds pretty quick. Makeshift hospital beds won't be the bottleneck....
....it'll be the lack of ventilators.
Who gets one and who doesn't get one once this thing explodes and is at peak infection rate is going to literally determine who gets to live and who gets to die.
So why in the fukc aren't we making more ventilators?
I'm sure there's an engineer or two at 3M or NASA who can figure out how to take apart a vacuum and along with a plastic pitcher from Wal-Mart and some plastic tubing, PVC, whatever they need out of all the shit we have laying around everywhere.....
.....I'm sure some egghead can figure out how to MacGyver a fukcing ventilator.
Seriously.
Seriously.
Seriously......why aren't we doing anything about this?
If your life or the life of your parent or grandparent or any loved one ends up depending on them being put on a ventilator to power their lungs long enough to keep them alive while they fight this virus off.....
.....how are you going to live with yourself knowing you and everyone else didn't do a fukcing thing to fix that one very obvious and relatively simple problem that could've been fixed.
We completed the Manhattan project and split the atom in short order eighty years ago. Think of all the advancements we've made since technologically.
I'm talking about building a machine. A fairly simple machine. If we can still build and assemble a modern automobile that comes off an assembly line in this country.....then why aren't we making ventilators as fast as we possibly can right now? Why is there no discussion on this at all? Not only are we not even in the beginning stages of production.....
.....we're not even talking about Trying to manufacture the one thing....the one and only thing that will absolutely be imperative to saving lives that we know we have a total shortage of.
If the infection rate is more like the Blue than the delayed and smoothed out rate in Yellow?
A million dead...easily.
All because we don't have enough ventilators and we're literally not even discussing trying to address this glaringly obvious shortage that is going to kill a lot of people.