[Mahler9th]

Cold water is cold by definition.

I did not know the intention was to, for example, create a design for one to use on one's loved one(s). In that case anything goes.

If we get desperate enough, folks with "health care basic knowledge" may start providing intensive care to folks close to dying with crude tools and methods that may not be safe or may not be effective or in between.

Regulations and laws and litigation will not matter anymore...

I wonder if that is going on in Italy? Aren't they desperate? Don't they have engineers and 3d printing machines?

It has not been my intention to pour cold water on Wayne's idea. I would hypothesize that many others are discussing things like this all over the world using social media tools like these Forums.

We know experts are working to increase production... lots of articles on this and I posted a few links.

I hope that folks can see the bigger picture, that there are myriad resources which must be considered, for example trained folks to provide care.

I hope that folks can focus energies and enthusiasm toward efforts that science suggests are potentially much more impactful in the near term.. In my opinion, by the time we get to cobbling and monkeying around in "an emergency situation," other factors will likely be be in play.

Likely enormously powerful and very, very unpleasant.

Like who gets professional care and who does not... challenging.

How will Sutter Health decide?

How will the Mayo Clinic decide?

Based on insurance coverage? Socioeconomic class?

How?

All that being said (and asked), I fully recognize that part of what goes on here is that some folks are "working through" the hard realities of our situation. Our global situation.