I Said It Before - This Is A "Put A Man On The Moon" Moment.....

[global1]

This is one of those 'put a man on the moon' moments ala JFK.

We should mobilize every resource we have to see this through an accelerated development. If we can put a man on the moon - it is doable to accelerate the development of a vaccine and treatment modalities for this virus. It is doable to initiate a program to fast track manufacturing of respirators. It is doable to have virus tests, masks, gloves, sanitizing solutions, etc. produced in quantities that would satisfy the needs of the American People. It is doable to find vacant commercial properties which can be retrofitted quickly to accommodate more patients.

This is one of those moments where the top 1% can pool their billions of dollars together and do something good with their money for a change. The government can come up with monies to push such a program. [If Trump can find money to build his wall - finding money for a push on minimizing this Covid-19 crisis should be a no brainer.]

We need to mobilize now and put such a program together.

I believe we did something like this during WWII - where we switched manufacturing plants from making their typical products - to make materials to win the war.

We are Americans - We are up to this challenge!!!!

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Auto factories need to start building ventilators

In WW2, they switched to B-24's. They can switch to ventilators easier, I imagine.

[brewens]

2. Remember during the Iraq was when Cheney went on and said "you go to war with the army you have"?

That was in response to troops being short of body armor and up-armored Humvee's. My thought was, they should have anticipated the need, but if not, do something about it, like ramp up production. I suppose the companies making that stuff expanded so far as they could, but we did a lot more than that to build equipment for WWII. If a company developed something but couldn't crank them out by the thousands we needed, they licensed it out to whoever could and got it done.

[Under The Radar]

4. That was Rumsfeld that said that and was in response...

To the number of lives lost to roadside bombs and the lack of armored vehicles and personnel armor, in frustration because he and bush had claimed victory inn”mission accomplished”

[brewens]

5. Oops. I was remembering it wrong I guess. I guess my point about the equipment still

works though.

[Under The Radar]

7. Sorry not correcting you, despite their claims ....

...the conductor of the entire Bush administration was Dick Cheney.

[Phoenix61]

3. We would already be doing it if we didn't

have a crazed orange shit gibbon at the helm.

[lame54]

6. JFK, Johnson and Nixon got us there...

Trump would have killed JFK's progress