[conspire] Correction

[Tony Godshall]

Oh, and also ventilators, more to the *hospital* point.

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-tesla-coronavirus-covid19-ventilators-n95-face-masks-facebook-apple-1493682

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 10:07 PM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
> Quoting Tony Godshall (tony at of.net):
>
> > Respirator manufacturing is ramping up.  Tesla has already made a
> > bunch.  In Fremont.  California.
>
> That's important, and really good news.  Another even more critical resource
> that cannot be ramped up, and is in danger of ramping down, is trained
> medical staff (doctors, nurses, etc.).  Even if a huge mob of eager
> trainees were to be found (and fat chance of that), not much of the
> necessary training could be skipped in order to bolster numbers quickly.
>
> 'Ramping down' is thus the likely effect of exposure -- which, getting
> back to your point, is what ramping _up_ of N95 respirators should help
> (in part) avert.
>
> Are we having fun, yet?  ;->
>
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