Okay, maybe ventilators take more time than the average product to bring to market, but surely, a worldpower should be able to keep its citizens' behinds clean.
Okay, maybe ventilators take more time than the average product to bring to market, but surely, a worldpower should be able to keep its citizens' behinds clean.
Answer: The US doesn't produce.
There is not an answer to the ventilator question. Why can't I run 26 minutes for 10k? Why can't I high jump 8 feet? There really aren't answers to questions like that. The US can't produce enough of some things. Accept it as fact and move on. Open the country up and we all of a sudden have enough toilet paper so that was caused by the Governors.
The US doesn't produce anything.
Most things are made in China including masks.
It's simple. Trump thought that 'the buck stops at the top,' means money and personal gain for him and his brand, not for responsibility to steer us through a crisis. It's all about him. Sad.
dead is bad wrote:
There is not an answer to the ventilator question. Why can't I run 26 minutes for 10k? Why can't I high jump 8 feet? There really aren't answers to questions like that. The US can't produce enough of some things. Accept it as fact and move on. Open the country up and we all of a sudden have enough toilet paper so that was caused by the Governors.
Really? What do the folks at MIT and Caltech work on all day? What problems are they solving there?
They solve problems. If you accept the poster's premise as true, then there is no answer because he said the US can't do it. If he had asked why the US can't currently do it, then MIT could figure it out.
Handle #347 wrote:
The US doesn't produce anything.
Most things are made in China including masks.
Including Trumps clothing line.
The average person is awake for 112 hours. The average person is away from their home at work or school for 40 hours a week. Roughly 1/3rd of all bathroom visits are at work or school. Plus, no one is traveling and no one is going out to eat. People need a lot more toilet paper at home than ever before. Meanwhile, office buildings, schools, hotels, restaurants, airports, etc are probably overflowing their stockrooms with unused rolls.
GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS.
You can't produce new medical devices without FDA approval. Therefore would-be newcomers to the market cannot enter.
Price controls, i.e. "price-gouging" laws. In times of increased demand, the prices of supplies should increase in proportion to demand, which in turn should attract investment to the cause of producing more of said supplies. But we are not seeing this happen, because businessmen know that if they raise prices, government do-gooders will crush them. Therefore the profit motive is blunted, and the supplies we need aren't coming into existence.
It's simple economics, but tragically, we live in a time when most people feel entitled and don't care about simple economic truths or rationality in general.
TP Expert wrote:
The average person is awake for 112 hours. The average person is away from their home at work or school for 40 hours a week. Roughly 1/3rd of all bathroom visits are at work or school. Plus, no one is traveling and no one is going out to eat. People need a lot more toilet paper at home than ever before. Meanwhile, office buildings, schools, hotels, restaurants, airports, etc are probably overflowing their stockrooms with unused rolls.
Your theory is gibberish.
There’s no shortage of soap, coffee or food.
[quote]dead is bad wrote:
There is not an answer to the ventilator question. Why can't I run 26 minutes for 10k? Why can't I high jump 8 feet? There really aren't answers to questions like that. The US can't produce enough of some things. Accept it as fact and move on.
Wow was that a stupid comment
There’s no shortage of toilet paper. Everyone I know (except me) has at least 100 rolls. And they actually ask me to buy them more (I’m a caregiver).
the easy answer is 'capitalism'
capitalism does a poor job of looking forward to solve future group problems.
It does a lot of things really well, but can't deal with things that probably wont' happen. It's in no one's profitable interest to stockpile expensive goods for something that probably will never be needed.
So answer part 2 is 'bad government.'
A job of central government in a capitalist nation is to look ahead and plan for whatever comes down the pike.
This government did a very poor job on that. Very bad.
Ideally, the Trumpists would be voted out immediately at first chance.
The idea that voters will fire politicians who fail is one of the only reasons democracy works. If voters do not fire failed politicians, the whole system breaks down because there is no incentive for politicians to do a good job.
Up to you, America. We get the government we deserve.
America produces very little and imports from China
For profit health care system that is not set up for pandemic patients with needed materials and extra staff.
Government did not have a plan in place. That’s local, state, and federal whom have failed to work well together. Probably because everything is off the cuff and politicized.
Everyone needs to be looking in the mirror rate now. That’s Democrats, Republicans, Young, old, skinny, and fat. Because those reasons all have partisan causes.
it’s not just one thing wrote:
America produces very little
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false. The US has never manufactured more stuff, not in the history of the nation.
(plus or minus a percent or two)
agip wrote:
it’s not just one thing wrote:
America produces very little
.
false. The US has never manufactured more stuff, not in the history of the nation.
(plus or minus a percent or two)
Ok so how does that compare to how much America consumes from China?
I don’t know what you’re talking about. I bought a 24 pack of tp at Walmart today at noon.
And the masks my wife’s office buys are made in Pennsylvania.
agip wrote:
false. The US has never manufactured more stuff, not in the history of the nation.
(plus or minus a percent or two)
What are they producing exactly?
Please don't say cars, since most parts are manufactured in Mexico or elsewhere for US brands.