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JRPGfan on 03 April 2020
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Soundwave said:


Countries don't decide shit for where products are made. Does Japan tell Nintendo or Sony (or US gov't to Microsoft) they can't make their game systems in China? No, they don't, and they won't be able to.

All that will happen after this is countries will ensure in an emergency situation they have contingency plans to rapidly speed up manufacture of a few select items ... hospital gowns/masks, ventilators, and testing equipment.

But that's a tiny fraction of things to manufacture in the grand scheme of things, how many ventilators can you manufacture a year from now when this has passed, it will be pointless and nationalized factories for that sort of thing will just be shut down. Everything else will just continue on being made where it was.

That sounds stupid.
You need to have a stockpile ready (a huge one), for another outbreak like this one, at all times just laying around.
Dont ever touch it, its there ONLY for virus outbreaks (which will be more common in future).

If you "wait" until its too late, to start "rapidly speed up manufactureing" its already too late.

You need to have a plan in place, and labs ready to be manned, and personal ready to be called on, when a outbreak hits.
So you can start testing on mass scale really early into it.  Makeing excuses about expenses, of keeping such around, is beyound silly at this point.
It would cost a peanuts compaired to what most probably spend on say military instead.

Also yes, in europe you could easily via laws, proclaim that X,Y,Z products, needed by health care, have to be made in europe (ei. dont buy them outsides of europe), and then contract someone to get producting in place for it.  I dont see why you couldnt do the same in the US.

Stuff like PPE, and certain life dependent medicin, just doesnt make sense to have it all made in china.
When sh*t hits the fan, you need to make sure you have the ability to protect yourselves.
All that production should be moved back out of china.

Why place national secury and the life/death of your citizens into the hands of the chinese? if you dont have too.
Naturally there should be laws preventing this.


"But that's a tiny fraction of things to manufacture in the grand scheme of things, how many ventilators can you manufacture a year from now when this has passed, it will be pointless and nationalized factories for that sort of thing will just be shut down. Everything else will just continue on being made where it was."

^ with how much most countries waste on so many other things, thats a very pessimistic view to take.
Also write into law, the health care system, need to use their own made PPE/Ventilators ect, and boom, suddenly the manufactureing plants, dont really cost much of anything to keep running. They also create jobs.

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 03 April 2020