UK has about 5K ventilators for 63M people Canada has about 5K for about 37M France has about 5K ventilators for 67M Germany has about 25K for 83M US has about 170K ventilators for about 330M people Still may not be enough. But we have a lot of ventilators in the US.
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Socialized healthcare doesn’t allow for margins.
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Strangely toilet paper runs out despite that industry being totally non-socialized. Anyway socialism causes both surpluses and shortages. Actual capitalism in healthcare should result in shortages when a Black Swan event happens.
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Do you think parents and IP prevent us from being able to spin up things like ventilators on demand?
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Yes. Although, ventilator IP has got to be past patent by now. Mass produce that shit, 3D print it dammit!
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As you well know, the eternal question is what mechanism is used to allocate those scarce resources.
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And another question: whether people can create open-source ventilators without being harassed by patent trolls.
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Now compare the tests South Korea has versus the US? We didn’t beat that to death enough last week
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Source(s)?
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I guess if China or Italy have free ones in due course, they should send it to countries that need it. Will need WHO to do global coordination
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