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6. I have spent my life in the midwest and the idea that auto makers can just switch from ....

Reply to Laelth (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 24, 2020, 07:17 PM

Mar 2020

... stamping out auto bodies, bumpers, hoods, doors, and so on and then start
making ventilators or a production line that put together engines can now start
making surgical grade face shields is just fucking nuts.

BTW if you had given the engineers, machinists, tool and die folk, line workers,
the job to make something you can be sure that they could have done it but the
pure horse shit from Trump about the auto plants making medical gear now is
just fuckin' nuts.

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The rough beast just claimed the US has tested more people in 8 days [View all] yonder Mar 2020 OP

I'd say a fair stat would percentage of population tested by day, starting from the first case brewens Mar 2020 #1

He also said that US Auto plants are now making medical gear too .... which is 100% false. Botany Mar 2020 #2

A person can be both. defacto7 Mar 2020 #3

Pathological liar. Laelth Mar 2020 #4

I have spent my life in the midwest and the idea that auto makers can just switch from .... Botany Mar 2020 #6

Magical Thinking Laelth Mar 2020 #9

It's accurate, but irrelevant DrToast Mar 2020 #5

Thanks yonder Mar 2020 #7

Weasel words because he doesn't compare % of population tested eleny Mar 2020 #8