One of my favorites is Adafruit, a small electronics company in Manhattan, normally serving the Maker/hobbyist market, who has sent most of their workforce home (with pay) and is using a small crew and their manufacturing equipment to make face shields and other equipment the local hospitals need. I've always liked LadyAda, but this is awesome.
FFS. You want apple to donate to the pharmaceutical companies?
You're aware of course that a significant amount of medical research takes place within academia and is independent of the pharma industry, at least in the preclinical and early clinical stages. It's only later in the insanely expensive development process that partnerships and sponsors are sought. With novel antiviral targets and vaccine trials being fast-tracked right now, no-strings funding is always welcome.
Another case of DIDNTREADIT-20. Please socially distance.
The obvious solution is to make ventilators out of that cheese.
I'm assuming you just read the headline.
Why is it up to the private sector? If you have a functioning government, you don’t need companies to disrupt their operations.
I want my pony to have a single horn on its head, please. And wings. And make it pink. With a rainbow mane and tail.
Well, let's see, masks are perhaps a nickel a piece in huge quantities... while the base model iPad is $329 - of course, Apple can get them for less, but some of that will be eaten up by distribution costs - google says there's about 50 million students in public schools in the US, and you have to get them to every one of those 50 million kids. At a round number of $300 each, that's $15 billion dollars (if you were to insist that $300 is too high: $200 each, delivered, would still be $10 billion dollars). Plus, the masks are saving lives. The iPads would "merely" improve lives. I think the answer here is, no.
