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I've been reading a story about General Motors manufacturing ventilators that were normally built by the medical device company Ventec in Indiana.

GM will be using a 2.6 million square foot facility that normally produced electronics for cars. Repurposing their factory to accomplish this requires totally different techniques than what this factory normally produces.

Work has already started on different levels. There's the engineering and building redesign, procurement of raw materials and assemblies from other sources, hiring and training of over 1,000 employees required to perform the work. More than 700 individual components go into the making of a ventilator. Cloning the Ventec factory may not be possible but tooling, computer software and hardware would most likely be the same.

According to experts, initial runs of prototypes must obtain US Food and Drug Administration approval before they can officially begin production. Best guess is product may not be available until the end of April... that would be after the predicted peak in the New York City outbreak.

It's reported Ventec normally produce 250 units per month and GM is expecting to ramp up to produce 10,000 per month. It's safe to say their facilities would be working 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.



Please hold your comments to the discussion of ventilators. Any comments that are political or point blame will be deleted.

all the governments of all the world they prepared a devilish plans against their people , the governments heads and kings and presidents they want to kill half the population of the earth and first they must kill the old people and the people who has disabities and can't work because the old people and people with disabilities are getting pension every month and this cost each government too much money and this is causing the economic crisis for the governments and they are going to kill them, and they are using the opportunity of coronavirus to kill many people under the name of coronavirus, and the numbers of death and of infected people that we saw and hear in the media around the world everyday is fake !!!!! and the heads and kings of the world are tired of protests against them and this makes them unhappy and this caused the governments to make an end for the life of the people ,they are the devil they created a poison medication to kill most of the people and it is sold in the pharmacies and the doctors and nurses are the obedient servants of the devil, be carful from the doctors and from medications !!!!!!

and lockdown it's just a fairy tale to terrifying the people and this is just the beginning of sorrows for a new laws and a new devilish technology of microchip " the mark of the beast" must be planted in the body of each person and in the hands by force or you will not be able to buy or sell and you have to be aware all the governments now they are stealing and they are making laundry money in the name of coronavirus and you must be very careful from this machines ventilators they don't give life for anybody but this ventilatores machines are designed to put people in comas and poison them to die a terrible death without screaming or moving and you have to be very careful also from the devilish health care systems are made to kill youu!

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As in, very temporary...with diminished value....
Does the ripping of the "Terrific speech" ...pose any kind of clue to the Foxes of the World who R now trapped in the paradox position:....explaining F word [ fema... logistics ...while clinging to the illusion that Trump was ever more than a S A G card actor.
Only a Quadrillion more $yllables and per Adventure, team Amerika will find a cure for the Crowning Mass Ejection....
Relationship of Command / at the drive inn
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Hypnotize / system of a down
Get behind me, $atan / white stripes
The E N D / black eYed peas
Black holes & revelations / muse
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Another hidden upside of C-19, is reconsideration of financial realities. And evolution. Jobs, employment, the stock markets, deficits, taxation, and even the threat to the usually secure money market funds. Many firms are failing, and some governments, with the best of liberal intentions, are throwing good money after bad. In these legal processes, after lower level creditors are sent packing, the higher ones (read bankers), inherit the mess, and often assign a management team to "reorganize", which is the root of another name for the work. What may then emerge is a leaner and meaner company, often much more successful than the failed one ever could become. But the losers often just piss the government money away, sooner or later to fail anyway. Marx and Engels would be rolling in their graves. But not Adam Smith. Socialism/communism---great plans, until other people's money runs out.

Last month, masks were hard to come by. All the Amazon vendors showed back-orders. Fortunately, I had some saved from renovation work last year and travel. We found a box of 25 surgical masks in the medicine cabinet at my house.
Grocery shopping?
Everyone has some kind of mask. No mask, no entry.
It bothers me to read hospitals are out of masks. N95 and surgical masks are in short supply. As of tonight, I see Amazon has KN95 masks direct from China for $8 each in limited supply and surgical masks around $1 each in quantities of 50.

People are getting masks from somewhere. 30% are the fabric variety, probably home-made. It's been 2-3 weeks since I've seen/read and stories of the clothing companies putting employees back to work making surgical style cloth masks.

I did some research and planned to do some home-made masks. Joanne's Fabrics only had the raw materials and Walmart had 1 sewing machine (in a 30 mile radius) and lots of raw materials. That was more than a week ago.

On my return trip to Walmart, the machine was gone, nearly every bolt of white cotton fabric gone and all the elastic material for straps was gone.

I procrastinated... waited too long.
So ended my plans to make masks from home.

Every night I check the new cases for my county. The numbers are dropping but every few days it spikes. Because it this, I'm expecting the stay home order to be extended for another month.

Procrastinator or not, it's unlike me not to have a backup plan.

I'm thinking...

I clicked on an investment story that CoDiagnostics has a test for coronavirus that's 100% accurate stating their stock will skyrocket. Naturally!
I didn't see it in anything medical (not that I actually researched it) so there's a possibility of a high degree of BS and advertising for the company.


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evolution of the banking system. Google the topic. From the fall of the Roman Empire, through the feudal millennium, and onto scams such as endless growth, monetization, the federal reserve, with holding and federal income taxes, silver certificates, a gold standard, historical and more recent depressions/recessions, ditching the Glass-Steagall Banking act, petro dollars, wars for capitalism, and lots more. Will give any self respecting conspiracy theorist a stiffie, for sure. Silver slippers exchanged for jeweled ones. A yellow brick road. The throngs of little people (us). And Toto, who looks behind the curtain to expose it all. Who could make any of this stuff up?

I knew car dealers would have a tough time selling cars this month but I didn't know they would be making crazy offers. One local dealer is offering no interest loans with 7 years of payments and no money down.
That roughly works out to $357 a month on a $30,000 transaction.
If you are keeping cars longer and purchased one from an 'off lease' dealer you would be getting into a deal with a 2 year old car and your last payment the car would be 9 years old.

You can shop from your cellphone and they will deliver the car to you.
Something to consider?

That scares me. It does.

Last week (and again last night) I watched a TV show called SONGLAND where unknown song writers go to Nashville to compete. Each week there is a guest music star and three writers chosen to each perform one original song in an attempt to be selected for the star to decide which song to record.
The song writers get to perform the first round with their songs in a raw format. There are 3 'judges' who critique the work and offer suggestions to improve each song, especially making it personalized for the guest recording star who appears that week.
Each judge is assigned to one of the writers and they take the raw song massage it (pitch, tempo, lyric changes as necessary) into a finished product. After, they return to perform the finished work where the guest star has to decide on the winner.
While it was no spectacular show of talent by the writers, judges or the recording star, it did give some insight to the music industry as to some of the collaboration required to a good melody and lyric into the viable song!


Songland on NBC

I got a call yesterday from the owner of the company who offered me a sales position. He had a 'start back' meeting and wanted me to attend. The county enacted the phase one and many non-essential businesses are back in operation. It's masks, hand cleaner, shoe covers and alcohol wipes for us and be extra careful of where we go and what we do as all our actions now are viewed with a different eye. Getting in and out of condo security may change now that everyone will be wearing masks.
One (masked) woman came to the showroom looking to renovate 2 bathrooms and I'll see her on Friday. Another appointment was also scheduled for me on Friday.

Extended vacation is over... it's back to work!