Ford Respirators and Ventilators

[85_Ranger4x4]

Neat that they are doing it, neat they kinda pulled a card from all of us Mcguyvers and are are making it happen with off the shelf parts:

Ford is working with 3M and GE to make respirators and ventilators

Ford announced Tuesday that it's working with 3M and GE Healthcare to produce medical equipment and protective gear for healthcare workers to help address shortages in the fight against the coronavirus.

www.cnn.com

 

[Dirtman]

The timeline to get them to hospitals is pretty dismal though. 3 months or more from what I've heard. Good to make them anyway but I feel it'll be too little too late to make an impact on our current crisis.

The issue hospitals are going to face is prioritizing the units they have until this is over. Some people may just get more invasive procedures or medications where they would normally be placed on a a safer simplier respirator.

 

[19Walt93]

Ford's made all kinds of stuff over the years that no one hears about. We had a retired Ford engineer move to our area when he retired in the late 60's. He brought a prototype 66 Falcon with him that had an Econoline front end under it because Ford was planning to put the 427 into them but never did. His had a 289 and ran on a manufacturer plate because it didn't have a VIN or a title. He had designed the front suspension under the Falcon that ended up in Mustangs, Cougars, etc. He wasn't allowed to sell it, when he was done Ford took it and supposedly crushed it.He also designed a rack and pinion system and a front wheel drive set up for the 58 Tbird but Ford stuck with the P.O.S. non integral power steering set up and sold the front drive design to GM-who used it in the Toronado and Eldorado. When he died his obituary listed all his patents, among them an aqua lung and some other medical devices.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I want one of these bad boys. 1100 CID, twin carbs, 8 cylinders, 32 valves, and designed for war.

'Murica!

 

[Shran]

Maybe they'll make IV bags too... one could say that they literally bled Ford blue at that point

 

[Grumpaw]

The timeline to get them to hospitals is pretty dismal though. 3 months or more from what I've heard. Good to make them anyway but I feel it'll be too little too late to make an impact on our current crisis.

The issue hospitals are going to face is prioritizing the units they have until this is over. Some people may just get more invasive procedures or medications where they would normally be placed on a a safer simplier respirator.

If there going to take 3 months to get them out to the hospitals, then there won't be any problem at all...
Trump has ordered the virus to be done and gone by April 12, Easter, a little over 2 weeks away.
On Monday April 13 th, everything will be back to normal, and you'll be able to return all your un-used toilet paper for refund.
Grumpaw

 

[adsm08]

If there going to take 3 months to get them out to the hospitals, then there won't be any problem at all...
Trump has ordered the virus to be done and gone by April 12, Easter, a little over 2 weeks away.
On Monday April 13 th, everything will be back to normal, and you'll be able to return all your un-used toilet paper for refund.
Grumpaw

Do you have to inject negative political BS into every discussion of the actual national crisis that is on-going?

 

[rusty ol ranger]

If there going to take 3 months to get them out to the hospitals, then there won't be any problem at all...
Trump has ordered the virus to be done and gone by April 12, Easter, a little over 2 weeks away.
On Monday April 13 th, everything will be back to normal, and you'll be able to return all your un-used toilet paper for refund.
Grumpaw

Trump is just aiming for that goal. The likelyhood of it happening is low. Trump does not control the virus. He is simply doing his best in the face of a unprecidented (in modern times) emergency to give the people hope.

 

[Grumpaw]

Do you have to inject negative political BS into every discussion of the actual national crisis that is on-going?

Well, lets see...
I'm 70 and can't go anywhere, because anywhere is now closed. Also, I need to be concerned for my health.
My wife, a nurse, 68 years old, goes to work at a hospital where there are cases of the virus, so it's a crap shoot that she'll become infected.
I have lost half of my retirement accounts, and,
I'm hoping my state retirement pension survives the market fall.
I'm bailing out my son, daughter in law and 3 grand kids, and have just about wiped out our savings doing it.
Can't go back to work cause of my age and the fact that no one is hiring.
And, there's a 50%--50% chance that if Trump had taken this seriously from the first it occurred, and listened to his advisers and medical experts, I / we wouldn't be getting screwed like we are now
.So, yes I do !!! Additionally, I try to post some funnies, cause it's better than being in the dumps, and I also realize there are those of you who are in worse positions than I am.
Grumpaw

 

[snoranger]

If there going to take 3 months to get them out to the hospitals, then there won't be any problem at all...
Trump has ordered the virus to be done and gone by April 12, Easter, a little over 2 weeks away.
On Monday April 13 th, everything will be back to normal, and you'll be able to return all your un-used toilet paper for refund.
Grumpaw

A lot of store have already put a no return policy on a few items... toilet paper, hand sanitizer, etc. (All the hoarded items.)

 

[19Walt93]

I think it would have been better(in hind sight) if Trump hadn't been so dismissive early on. That pales in comparison to the damage the Chinese did by preventing news of the outbreak from getting out for 2 months, not to mention eating vermin and starting the whole thing.
I've heard medical folks complain about not being ready for the virus because Trump didn't order them to prepare. Tonight's news had an interview with the head of a hospital in Concord about the preparations they started doing almost 2 months ago. On their own initiative.Without being ordered by the president to do their jobs.

 

[G8orFord]

So what y'all are saying is we should have went into lockdown on Jan. 1? How would that have changed anything? We didn't have test kits, the stock market would still have crashed, there was no cure then either and travelling folks were already being exposed. Do you also think Obama's handling of H1N1 was better? Blaming Trump for this virus (or Obama for H1N1) is ridiculous IMO.

 

[Dirtman]

Doesn't matter who's in charge, earlier response would definitely have made a difference. We were business as usual until only 2 weeks ago. Trump doesn't listen to his scientific/medical advisors and fired the pandemic response team which might have come in handy during a, well pandemic. So no I don't think he's done a good job at this and if we got info from the medical community instead of "ahhh don't worry it'll go away" we would have been better prepared and farther along with dealing with this.

 

[G8orFord]

The medical community is making bank right now. They might have a bit of a bias.

So, we shut down the country, blow our debt and deficit to even higher astronomical proportions for a virus that has a survival rate approaching 99% outside of 3rd World areas.

This isn't the tailgate so I'm done, but there's a lot more going on here than some of you seem to think.

 

[Dirtman]

The spanish flu had the same 98% survival rate.. that did not end well...

2% of the population is 150,000,000+ people.