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Why "early on"? Just yesterday GM tried to price-gouge the US federal government, and restrict the number of ventilators they will produce, prompting Trump to a
by m0zg 7y ago
Why "early on"? Just yesterday GM tried to price-gouge the US federal government, and restrict the number of ventilators they will produce, prompting Trump to actually use the DPA for the first time in this ordeal, something he's very reluctant to do other than as leverage in negotiations.
- CamperBob2 7y agoBut I thought Trump said there wasn't a ventilator shortage, or something along those lines. Didn't he accuse New York of asking for more than they needed? Now, all of a sudden, ventilators are very important to Trump. Odd.
- xiphias2 7y agoHe doesn't understand exponential function, neither most of the people in the world. It's counterintuitive, as the brain is heavily biased to linear thinking. Also in western world generally math is not cool, people have a strong bias against it.
- m0zg 7y agoThere isn't a shortage, yet. Cuomo was put on the spot today over thousands of ventilators sitting in a warehouse. He said they don't need them yet, but they "expect to" in the future. Any claims of a current shortage, therefore, are a lie.
- iguy 7y agoI said early on because in Jan/Feb some people thought it might blow over -- it wasn't 100% obvious that you would be able to sell every mask you could make. Had someone signed a contract for 6 months of full production, they would have switched, but without it, they sat. That was a situation with a lot of parallels to SARS. Now of course things are different, nobody is thinking the way I suggested. They are playing other games, though.