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bowhunter1023 said:
GM needs to positive brand presence right now. I personally love seeing industry gear up to do things they don't normally do. It's highlighting American ingenuity and resilience. Political pundits can say what they will about the President ordering private enterprise to do certain things, but this is a "certain thing" that's necessary and GM is going to benefit from the retooling in the long run.
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The only thing that struck me was GM said they were going to donate them "at cost". Jesus Christ, why then would you pick a company with notoriously high operating and union costs that was driven to bankruptcy. 🤣. There wasn't a more capable cheaper option in the private industry. Thats like picking the post office over Amazon logistics. I guess as long as we get 50,000 miles out of them before they need repairs then that might be good enough. 🤣Hopefully the parts quality is better than their blower motor resistors they put in vehicles. 🤣🤣

Although, I'm not sure if he could order Toyota or Honda to do it considering they're not a US based company.
 
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I laughed out loud if they think GM can retool to clean room/medical manufacturing in a few weeks. If the compliance ratings are enforced, good luck in the next 3 months.

Give them end product functionality goals and let them figure out how to build it with the tools already in place.....hope the components supply chain is ready to respond. Lots of technical parts/pieces in the models they keep showing.
 
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Jackalope said:
The only thing that struck me was GM said they were going to donate them "at cost". Jesus Christ, why then would you pick a company with notoriously high operating and union costs that was driven to bankruptcy. 🤣. There wasn't a more capable cheaper option in the private industry. Thats like picking the post office over Amazon logistics. I guess as long as we get 50,000 miles out of them before they need repairs then that might be good enough. 🤣Hopefully the parts quality is better than their blower motor resistors they put in vehicles. 🤣🤣

Although, I'm not sure if he could order Toyota or Honda to do it considering they're not a US based company.
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Trump thinks GM still owns the Lordstown plant hope that don't mess the deal up
 
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Jackalope said:
The problem wasn't access to the population. The problem was our CDC setting arbitrary requirements for testing which missed community spread indicators. Then trying to create their own test that turned out to be unreliable. Wasted time. By the time that they allowed testing of the general population it was too late and had spread throughout the country. They never even had a smidgen of a chance at containment due to those blunders. What we're seeing now showing up to hospitals are people who became infected two weeks ago. We are constantly behind the curve. SK on the other hand caught it early, cast a very big net for testing and through contact tracing and testing managed to mostly contain it early.

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They also received the same defective shipments of tests that Spain and France did, FROM CHINA. The US has the most accurate positive tests at this time and that will remain true which will of course result in the highest number. Not only has China shipped faulty tests, they’ve stop testing their people and they’ve shut down journalism to the extent that journalists are trying to use emojis to get around the censors.
 
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I wish he asked Honda or Toyota to make them. Things would last forever. GM couldn't say no given the bailout.

@Jackalope you have any stats from the Princess cruise ship? Percentage of guests over 60 was very high. Very few under 50. Lived in close quarters with lots of interaction for a month before realizing they were infecting themselves. Stats I read said only very small % contracted the virus. Or maybe it was something like large percentage were asymptomatic. That was a floating petri dish. It was stats which offered reasons to be optimistic. I couldn't find them but wanted to fact check.
 
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After this crisis is over we can all look back and view this as the FLEECING OF AMERICA as there will be a lot of monetary fraud from people and businesses taking advantage of the government!!!!!
 
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Buckmaster said:
Invoked today...however the State Governors began requesting 3 weeks ago. That’s 3 weeks lead time lost by now. WTF!
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3 weeks ago this was still a “media overhype”. I’d say the president would’ve been hung by most to pull some shit that fast. Therefore, I believe he had to wait for this to take its path correctly. I don’t blame him here. Don’t be pissed at him or the 3 weeks, this is how America works. You can’t just do anything here, everything is a process of checks and balance.

Either way, I think we need to focus on the days ahead still. Looking back and pointing fingers ain’t going to help us. Looking back at history, yes. But to point fingers at this point is pointless. No need to add anger in these tough times coming.
 
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