When China was building the special modular hospitals in 10 days, I thought why didn’t they just choose to convert old shipping containers instead? Since it co

When China was building the special modular hospitals in 10 days, I thought why didn’t they just choose to convert old shipping containers instead? Since it could be mass manufactured offsite, and trucked in. Then they’d just have to assemble it onsite. Then, they could ship it all over the world, to hotspots that needs emergency field help. But it turned out, ocean transport time is horrendous. It takes 21 days to transport from China to Los Angeles. Then, the time to load the ship, and unload the ship, and transport by land to the actual hotspot, would add another week. Then the time to actually assemble it onsite would add a few more days. So now, you’re looking at over 30 days to build that emergency hospital. By which time, you’d already have a bunch of dead people, just because it took you too long to transport it. So in retrospect, it was probably better that they built it modularly onsite instead. At least this way, you can still fly the components to your hotspot.