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How come the industrial capacity of the world is not sufficient to produce enough equipment?

Is it too specialized, too complex to be produced by commonplace manufacturing methods?

I don't really understand this question. The industrial capacity of the world is not a single thing. Factories have specific tooling in place to make specific things.

Even assuming the magic ability to re-tool instantly, raw materials occupy time and space and need to get to places.

Even ignoring that, shutting down transport and logistics pipelines due to not wanting many workers to be congregated also slows everything down.

In my software or electronics I've designed, a lot of work has gone into making design temper proof, reverse engineering proof. So it's needlessly complex. Specially where we need to protect IP, for example using client and server side software when all the work can be done on client side because you fear your competitor will steal your secret sauce by reverse engineering your binary. I wonder how many such anti tamper efforts is used in these medical machine.

It’s about ramping up the production. Given time we can produce ridiculous quantities per day if needed, but it takes time to set it up.

Right now I'd guess the bulk of the world's manufacturing capacity is under quarantine. Can't produce things without workers.

In Canada the constraint is going to be the number of doctors that we have, not the number of ventilators or the physical space to house patients.

As far as I understand (from random reading on the net) its more or less the same bunch of procedures for most patients. After a day or two everyone in the ICU probably knows what to do.

Not enough in time, but even if you have 30k ones, you need trained staff. (I guess--not being a doc--a nurse with a few hours of training can do 95% of the job but still.)

That's a valid question, why the downvotes ?

There's a marketing theater that says that anything is possible and that high tech is constantly mass produced.

stock management issues, it's more a matter of being caught pants down by a problem growing faster than the machine can accelerate

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