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 asked me, one person in particular who shall be temporarily not named but probably later, asked who in the government can make the decision to buy more masks, more gloves, more equipment. Because an individual has actually just spontaneously organized with others to look at some factories to convert them like a wartime footing to emergency produce masks and gloves and other, I don't know, sanitizers, other things that one might need.

So here we have American individuals who are starting to build factories without the government's help. Oh my God, the capability in this country is just incredible. But here's my question to you so you can join in if you know how to help. Who in our government can say yes to writing a check for more masks, more equipment, more anything? Is there anybody in the government who's the emergency budget person who gets to say, okay, that's in the budget, that's not in the budget, we got a million dollars, that's in, that's out? So somebody says Congress, but I need a name and phone number basically. So if you DM that to me, if somebody has some contacts, just send it my way. Most of you know how to contact me. I'm pretty easy to contact. Go to LinkedIn if all else fails.

All right, so in Italy, here's an inspirational story. Italy was running short on ventilators but they had three ventilators that were missing a part. I think it was the same part. It might not have been, but it was missing a part. It's pretty hard to get a part these days for a ventilator, I would guess. So they brought in a local company with a 3D printer, and the local company looked at the part, engineered it, and 3D printed it right there. Oh my God, humans. You know, it's like watching, I hate to say it because there's so much death and misery, but it's like watching a sporting event where individual players are making great plays. And you know, bringing the 3D printer people to make you an emergency part for your ventilator, that's like Curry passing behind the back under the legs of the opponent for the layup. These are serious people doing serious things and I'm amazed and impressed.

And of course Google has stepped up to do the coronavirus website. You know, we can complain about whether it is or is not on time or what the president said, but it's people doing the things they need to do. At least 35 companies and academic institutions are rushing to create a vaccine. At least four have tested it on animals already. This is amazing. We've never seen anything like this. And Moderna, Moderna biotech company in Massachusetts, has already shipped the first batches for testing, I guess.

And you know, here's my take. Human engineer ingenuity. I'll say this. I'll say this a thousand times until you all have this picture in your head. We all know the virus has this curve where it's gonna start slow and we're not worried and then oh my God it's a panic. And that's, you know, we're sort of in that dangerous part of the curve. But human ingenuity looks just like that. Just like that. And our curve will be faster than the virus because of the things we're doing.

And I heard somebody smarter say we're not self-quarantining and shutting everything down because it's a crisis. It is a crisis. It's not because of the virus. It's because we want to avoid the virus. It's sort of the positive way to look at it. The reason we're doing the shutdowns is because we're gonna avoid the problem, not because we have the problem. I know it's a small change but I like it better that way.

And you're seeing human ingenuity at the elbow, maybe I'd call it the elbow. You know, our curve is going like this. We're gathering and gathering information. We're A/B testing. We're testing. We're testing. We're building labs. We're building factories. We're testing, building factories. We're trying stuff. We're right in the elbow. We're right in that little U-shaped part where we've been flat for three months because we've known about the virus three months, four months, however long we've known about it, but so little information and it's wrong information and you're not sure an