not the real problem for China. You know it's bad to have a bad reputation but isn't this going to cause all of the major countries that were victims of this to decouple? You know the United States I'm sure is going to decouple. I don't know how quickly, you know who's gonna pay for it, what it looks like, but it's the beginning of the end. There's not any question that the United States is going to have less business there, not more. I think the same probably with Japan and I would expect some of the European countries to follow.

So it seems to me that the only path that China has is economic catastrophe. I think the United States will climb on to this pretty readily. You know if you want to feel good about the United States here's a little fact that I heard from Peter Navarro who by the way was excellent on television today. I listened to Peter Navarro just talk on a news show. I don't know if he's always this good because I haven't really paid attention to him but he gave just one of the best TV interviews you'll ever see. You know it wasn't flashy so maybe nobody's gonna notice but the clarity of his thought and the precision in which he just presented things in a simple way for the public was really good. A plus, Peter Navarro.

Anyway so it seems — I don't know, I was even talking about Peter Navarro. There was some point there but oh yeah I was gonna make you feel good. Here's something Peter Navarro said. He was talking about the ventilators and how the American companies were gearing up to rapidly create ventilators. And I think which company it was but one of the car companies I believe built a ventilator factory that was using their own factory as a retrofit and they started producing ventilators in 11 days. In 11 days we spun up a ventilator factory and we're well on the way to producing, I think he said, 150,000 ventilators. A hundred and fifty thousand ventilators. It looks like we'll need about a third of them. We'll probably take two-thirds of them and distribute them to states for storehouses and stuff for storage and then we'll probably help other countries.

But how proud are you to live in the country that can make a ventilator factory in 11 days? You know remember when we were watching China put up their little instant hospitals and everybody was saying my god we can't do that, we'll never build a hospital in 11 days like China. Then we build a ventilator factory in 11 days. Now I assume it was probably more about assembling parts from other places so it was probably had a lot more to do with assembling than anything else but still, 11 days, pretty impressive.

Here's what I proposed. I just tweeted this before I got out here. I propose when the coronavirus is behind us, and someday will be, that we forgive each other. Be you Democrats or Republicans, be you professionals and experts and doctors, be you businesspeople, be you citizens. I propose that we just fo