To be fair, most countries were ill-prepared for the Corona pandemic. In
Britain, the situation has been exacerbated by a government formed from
insouciant, Brexit-fixated, exceptionalists who apparently felt that the dastardly
virus would think twice before daring to arrive in the land of Horatio Nelson
and Winston Churchill. And anyway, pouring vast amounts of money & effort into white
elephant vanity projects like HS2 gave much more instant gratification in
Downing Street than all that boring forward planning. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/17/hs2-white-elephant-coronavirus-recession-conservatives?
Against this woeful background,
something positive and important has just happened. Mercedes-AMGHPP have
collaborated with mechanical engineers and clinicians from University College,
London and, in less than 100 hours, developed an open-source, easily reproducible
breathing aid for Corona patients.
As an example of collective
and generous positive action this will be important to remember when the
pandemic has passed and we are re-focussing on the technical obstacles to
reducing GHG emissions as a matter of life-threatening urgency.
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