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elieve anything on its face value that looks like it's coming from some unknown source about somebody who talked to somebody. So that's a caution, which is really important. I saw some photos that Disneyland was packed this weekend. Is that real? Because again, fake news is going to be so prevalent now that you just have to distrust every photograph, every tweet. I'm also seeing tweets from what…

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it's an incomplete answer, is that as Dr. Drew explained yesterday on his show, the hospitals actually in the United States, we can flex better than other places. And in particular, apparently every operating room has a ventilator that they use for the operations. And given that we'll probably be postponing a lot of elective surgery, we can repurpose them. So first of all, there's a bunch of unused ones that will just be sitting there that we can put into production pretty quickly. Secondly, apparently the military has a lot of them and they could temporarily be used for this purpose because we're not at a major war except against the virus. So that would give us a little flexibility that other countries clearly don't have. I mean, there's no other country I would imagine who has any kind of military healthcare gear that's anything close to what the United States would have.

But I also hear, and I don't have confirmation on that, that the United States might be looking to put some orders in for ventilators now. I don't know who does the math on this stuff and says, well, how much is enough and how much is not enough ventilators? But I think we're in a "do everything and do it hard" situation. I don't think we're in a situation where we should be saying, you know, we might have enough ventilators or we probably have enough or we're almost certain we have enough ventilators. That's not the place we're in. We're in the place, if ther

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e's any chance we need ventilators at all, get some ventilators. So I hope the government is looking to do that. I have a question I'm going to put out here publicly. I think I can find the right person in the government, but I've been asked, and it's weird how this world works. You know, every citizen is sort of entering the fight if they can. So I'm in the fight with all of you. And people have…

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