As seen on 60 minutes this past week GM building and shipping in the thousands .
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Are you a GM worker? Cause last I heard GM is not making or shipping ventilators
c+14B66tsQ isn't off base on the second wave concerns; the second round is what usually decimates a population based on history and science. One of my best buds works at FDA in infections diseases and he's stockpiled and not leaving his house based on what he knows, but can't say. I'm trying to do the same as much as possible.
In response to @2vec+14B66tsQ - I also hear the water beneath the Golden Gate Bridge k–ls something like 80% of the people that hit it. We really should drain the bay.
If given a choice go with the ventilator produced by GM...
The CDC and government are worried about the 2nd wave of Covid, more than they are worried about this initial wave. They are worried about a mutation occurring that makes it more deadly. That's why ventilators will continue to be made well after the curve flattens, or even starts going down, for wave one.
Look at the graphs of the Spanish Flu in 1918 - the 2nd wave was what k–led 80% of the people. The first and 3rd waves were blips compared to the 2nd one.
The mortality rate of COVID-19 is unknown due to lack of widespread testing, but we know that hospital ICUs are quickly overwhelmed. We also know that the mortality rate will be less than 3% due to most having minor symptoms. Now imagine when a 90+% mortality event happens, like Ebola. Ventilators need to be stockpiled. Too bad the type Xerox committed to make are not the ones that will be needed.
That’s an astoundingly stupid interpretation of the statistics on ventilators.
Ventilators are k–ling more people than they are saving.
I never thought that the ventilators would save the company and it seemed like a legitimately good thing to do given the situation at the time, so frankly it’s disgusting to me to see it called a pure publicity stunt. It can be both good PR for the suits and honestly the right thing to do at the same time.
Maybe they aren’t necessary now, but that wasn’t the case weeks ago.
"If anyone think ventilators are going to save this company, they need to take their heads out of their asses."
That was never going to save the company. The revenue generated would have been minimal, if anything. This was only being done to (a) help the country (b) good PR (c) attempt to show that we can make other things besides office devices.
Strangely though, it seems like ventilators aren't as much in demand as they were before. So I wonder how many we'll actually make and ship.
So XRX is able to change gears and make something based on a need that was communicated to them.... who takes responsibility for failure to know what the customer market wants? Typically that is senior leadership.
If anyone think ventilators are going to save this company, they need to take their heads out of their asses.
Are you sure it isn’t “150 to a thousand” and Sean Hannity is reporting 150,000?
Just curious - and of course I’m only suggesting he heard it wrong.
Roughly 150,000.
@dwm No one needs them anymore. I’ve heard the same with the shields
I wouldn't exactly trust the factory that produces Nuvera to make a life-saving device. Lawd help those that need to use either.
I doubt we will ever get a truthful reading on that from the ICon Illusionaries or any third party (that they pay to report on it, much like the media blabber recently).
When it comes to shipping, the Tech Powerhouse is solely committed to shipping jobs overseas. Any headlines about ventilators, hand sanitizer and other COVID-19 related responses are nothing more than publicity stunts and tardy me-too moves.
At least they are finally making a product someone wants.