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UTEP students were notified to GTFO of the dorms on Monday, with the last day to go being next Thursday. They were notified before NYU students FWIW.

What they are doing, however, is prepping the battlefield. UTEP's campus is small, has a very large stadium in the Sun Bowl, and has multiple hospitals in the immediate vicinity to include an Army hospital. Patients who test positive will likely go to the UTEP dorms to prevent spread in hospitals
 
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Made a run to my local gun store earlier today to grab extra ammo just in case, turns out they put a moratorium on ammo sales due to 'supply shortages'. They looked pretty cleaned out from what I could see. Luckily I bought some boxes earlier last month thanks to the thread. Interestingly they were still selling guns but they looked pretty cleaned out of that as well, a lot of empty AR racks and such. Did any of you have similar experience on your last minute gun runs?
 
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AmpleApricots said:
I have no idea what goes into creating a ventilator and I won't pretend to be a doctor on the internet. (not again) The thing is though that I do know that they were never expected to be built in big amounts or quickly. Every device containing electronics that is expected to work in a medical setting goes through an insane amount of testing and parts-vetting. I do know that the electronic components in these devices themselves have to be certified to be used for medical devices and the testings and certifications are insane. It's really hard to be allowed to engineer and build a medical device, and I think most people would agree for good reason. I'm pretty sure in an emegency situation like this there are a lot of corners you can cut and a lot of red tape you can ignore to get some up to snuff quickly and the kinds of engineers working on such things (very smart people with often very nice salaries) are probably pulling all-nighters right now to optimize for quick production while still building something that's safe. I'm pretty sure there's lots of room for speeding up and what we'll know in a few weeks about building ventilators will dwarf what we know now.
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Well ventilators have been around since the 1930s. Something as advanced as a 1970's one or at least the 1980's computer controlled one would likely be good enough to save lots of lives. They DID save lots of lives in their time.

Someone has to make the decision. Do they spend years tooling up to make a perfect clone of a 2020 top of the line machine? Or do they just go for something simpler to get it out the door quicker.
A machine that is 90% as capable as a modern unit is better then no machine at all.
 

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Made a run to my local gun store earlier today to grab extra ammo just in case, turns out they put a moratorium on ammo sales due to 'supply shortages'. They looked pretty cleaned out from what I could see. Luckily I bought some boxes earlier last month thanks to the thread. Interestingly they were still selling guns but they looked pretty cleaned out of that as well, a lot of empty AR racks and such. Did any of you have similar experience on your last minute gun runs?
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I'm always adequately prepared in that sense, but a friend of mine went to the range/gun shop last week, and the owner mentioned there were a lot of new buyers/first time gun owners. We have constitutional carry here, so the process is easier than in most places.
 
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1000 page predictions:
Hillary will get Bat Flu but will bathe in the blood of Haitian kids and be cured
One of the Kardashians will blow a niggo who coofs on her and the whole clan will die
John Brianna Flynt Wu will change it;s name when Franks coofs to death after a chink relative emails him Bat Flu
Meghan Markle will claim she survived but divorces Harry when no one cares
Kiwi Farmers shall survive
 
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Non-Expert! said:
Didn't think of it that way but you have a point.
..... waiting for something to happen. Weathering out the calm, before the storm.

People are gonna act like people.
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Worrying does no good. People need something concrete to focus on. Shopping and the associated hassles are something to focus on and serve as a common base of reference with others.
 
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