Milland
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 6, 2006
- Location
- Hillsboro, New Hampshire
Hi all,
Just about everyone here is a shop owner, machinist, or engineer. Many of us have already been affected by the restrictions urged or mandated by government to help slow the spread of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 disease.
We don't want to sit back and wait, do we? So let's think about how we can use our talents and shop capabilities to help in the treatment and ongoing research to combat this virus (and those to follow).
I've been in touch with a researcher in the Biotech field I worked with in the early 2010's, and hope he'll be getting back to me with some suggestions. I've also reached out to the medical Professor who's posted on PM, he's already talking to some of his contacts about whether equipment mods might help stretch existing medical capacities. He'll chime in if/when he has more to talk about.
We're in a very uncertain time, but perhaps a look back to the 1940's could be instructive. While we don't have the massive manufacturing infrastructure we had back then (which arguably won WW2), we have much more flexible and fast response capabilities, Corvettes rather than Battleships. Properly directed, there's a lot we can do.
So this is a thread for ideas, leads, suggestions on outreach to labs and hospitals, etc. No, the vast majority of us aren't doctors, but we have skills and the ability to make stuff. Surely there's some way we can serve in this new (microbe) war.
Just about everyone here is a shop owner, machinist, or engineer. Many of us have already been affected by the restrictions urged or mandated by government to help slow the spread of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 disease.
We don't want to sit back and wait, do we? So let's think about how we can use our talents and shop capabilities to help in the treatment and ongoing research to combat this virus (and those to follow).
I've been in touch with a researcher in the Biotech field I worked with in the early 2010's, and hope he'll be getting back to me with some suggestions. I've also reached out to the medical Professor who's posted on PM, he's already talking to some of his contacts about whether equipment mods might help stretch existing medical capacities. He'll chime in if/when he has more to talk about.
We're in a very uncertain time, but perhaps a look back to the 1940's could be instructive. While we don't have the massive manufacturing infrastructure we had back then (which arguably won WW2), we have much more flexible and fast response capabilities, Corvettes rather than Battleships. Properly directed, there's a lot we can do.
So this is a thread for ideas, leads, suggestions on outreach to labs and hospitals, etc. No, the vast majority of us aren't doctors, but we have skills and the ability to make stuff. Surely there's some way we can serve in this new (microbe) war.