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> This feels like Elon's child-rescue submarine, and at least as far as COVID-19 it's likely to save exactly the same number of people. Speaking of Elon Musk,
by glenneroo 7y ago
> This feels like Elon's child-rescue submarine, and at least as far as COVID-19 it's likely to save exactly the same number of people.
Speaking of Elon Musk, his initial plans from a few days ago to also produce some in-house has morphed into the saner goal of acquiring 1000+ units from China, which apparently have already arrived in LA: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/california-governor-says-elon-musk-delivered-1-000-ventilators https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/californi...
- brenden2 7y agoElon probably just went on Alibaba and bought some with his credit card.
- solveit 7y agoIt was probably a little more involved than that, but not by much. The real story is that asinine regulations and bureaucracy aren't letting hospital administrators do the same!
- ineedasername 7y agoAlthough buying existing ones is zero-sum: assuming the worldwide demand exceeds supply and, as such, those ventilators would have been sold anyway, his buying of those ventilators just swapped the shortage problem to a different group of patients.