"You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 4,000 ventilators!"
NY City is 30,000 ventilators short. The hospitals are now experimenting with hooking up two people to the same ventilator. The President is the only person that can get ventilators produced immediately. And the only way he can do that is to order it to happen, while paying the ordered companies as much as it takes to get them to move instantly. This is what worked in WWII. This is the only thing that will work today.
Voluntary help from U.S. corporations will not cut it.
Relying on 50 states to come up with their own supplies will not cut it.
Letting the 50 states each set their own discordant Coronavirus policies will not cut it.
This is what will cut it and determine whether the president wins or loses re-election by a landslide.
1. Use the Defense Production Act (DPA) to order (and handsomely pay) thousands of manufacturing companies to produce millions of ventilators and N95 masks within the next two weeks. Use the Act to obtain and disseminate all blueprints, specifications, instructions, and test protocols so they addition producers can begin work overnight.
2. Use the DPA to order (and handsomely pay) thousands of manufacturing companies to produce hundreds of thousands of Coronavirus testing machines as well as all the inputs, such as swabs and swab containers, needed for generating the tests. Use the DPA to order (and handsomely pay) thousands of manufacturing companies to produce millions of thermal scanners so that every store, place of business, workplace, and transportation system will be in a position to read the temperatures of those entering and ask those with fevers to return home and call their doctors.
3. Order all available military medical personnel to assist in the care of virus victims at all hot spots across the country. Airlift ventilators and other critical equipment as well as ICU doctors and other key medical personnel to virus hotspots to assist where the equipment and practitioners are needed most.
4. Use the DPA to order (and handsomely pay) thousands of manufacturing firms to produce all manner of personal protection equipment, hundreds of millions of bottles of hand sanitizer, and hundreds of millions of bottles of disinfectant.
5. Order every business and workplace to take the temperature of anyone that enters their premises and to clean every surface in their premises on a real-time basis once the business/workplace reopens.
6. Use the DPA to order and handsomely pay thousands of construction companies to build walk-in and drive-through testing facilities that are within walking or short driving distance of every neighborhood in the country.
7. Mobilize the National Guard in each state to test 5,000 households, chosen at random, to understand each state's infection rate.
8. Use the DPA to order and handsomely pay Apple, Google, and Facebook to jointly develop a contact-tracking phone App and require every American to download the App on their phone. The App will store each of our whereabouts and each person we've encountered. I.e., the App will automatically communicate across phones.
9. Order all Americans, except essential workers, to shelter in place for as long as it takes for sufficient ventilators and testing machines to be produced. Mobilize the military to deliver food to the public at their doorsteps.
10. After the quarantine period, require the public to go to their local testing facility to have their temperatures taken and be tested for the virus using both swab and antibody tests. When all tests are negative, give that person a time-dated badge to be visibly displayed allowing them to go to work, shop, recreate, etc. for one day. Otherwise, the person will be required to return to their homes for 14 days. As illustrated by Nobel Laureate, Paul Romer, at paulromer.net, our most effective means to saving lives and restoring the economy is to do real-time, daily universal testing.
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