Fat hurts wrote:
agip wrote:
there will be some controversy when profits are made and no doubt some private sector contributions will fail.
But still, I love stories like this - make a big, strong, free enterprise economy and great things will happen when you need it.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/26/tech/dyson-ventilators-coronavirus/index.htmlI'm very skeptical. In the US, a new ventilator would need to get approval by the FDA. I assume they have something like that in the UK as well.
You don't want to deploy thousands of units of a brand new ventilator design that kills patients. Maybe these will only be used when no other ventilator is available and the patient will definitely die without it.
Hope it works.
I'm sure you are right.
But in a poli-sci way, your comment could be considered a microcosm of the gap between trumpist and democrat-type thinking. Trump's approach is to get through the day. When your companies are bankrupt, say it's all fine. When someone insults you, insult them worse and keep going. Be scrappy and keep moving. We see that in his crappy companies and in how he wants to inject people with unproven medicines. How he wants to deregulate the health insurnace market. And his followers generally go along with that...not to fret much about what experts say and think we should do. They understand there will be problems, but they still want to do stuff quickly.
Dems, on the other hand, are more cautious and technocratic...want to get a set of rules in and follow them, and not just have faith that things will work out. We see that in comments like yours.