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Stray Electron:

--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on March 26, 2020, 07:42:47 am ---Case in point: the Swedish Work Environment Authority threatens to sue a 3D printing company for donating face shields:

https://twitter.com/erikcederb/status/1242467321555202048

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  Read the rest of the article. They have since backed off of that threat.  Also a doctor in Spain has been using 3D printed face shields for weeks and he's very thankful that people are making them and donating them to the hospitals.

Stray Electron:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 26, 2020, 02:49:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: Stray Electron on March 26, 2020, 03:08:47 am ---
--- Quote from: langwadt on March 26, 2020, 01:35:18 am ---[

you don't just make medical things, there is tons of red tape involved, for good reasons

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   Really? My step father was an orthapedic surgeon and he had many instruments the he designed and that were custom built for him. A good number of them are now standard instruments in that field including the bone drill that is used to drill holes in bones so that pins can be installed. A friend of mine is a dammed good mechanical engineer and owns his own small machine shop and he's built dozens of specialty devices for various doctors and hospitals.

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Please don't share any more info about him, as he might get in trouble and the doctors implied as well.
 ::)

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   Stop throwing out bull shit to defend your position.  He was one of the top surgeons in the US and has an outstanding reputation. He's also one of the people that hospitals, other doctors and medical associations come to for expert advice.  He is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and had his medical training at Georgetown University, one of the top medical schools in this county and he was in the top 1% of all of the gradates in the US. He interned at Bethesda Naval Hospital near the end of WW-II treating soldiers and sailors that had been wounded during the war and has treated everything kind of injury and wound imaginable. He was one of the first to use steel pins for splinting bones and that's where he came up with the idea of a bone drill.  Maybe not in the EU, but here in the US doctors routinely choose their own instruments just as a fine woodworker or you electronic geeks would.  They also have instruments modified to suit their taste. As long as the doctors are successful in their pursuits, no one asks who made their tools.

   BTW during my brief hospital career I repaired all kinds of medical equipment and even modified some of it and no one other than my immediate boss was looking over my shoulder and no approvals were necessary.  The hospital that I was in made a small but significant improvement in neonatal respirators after they noticed that infants that used one particular respirator had better results than infants on any of the other respirators.  They tore it down and found that one valve wasn't opening fully and it maintained a slight amount of positive air pressure. They modified the other respirators to do the same and found that all of them gave a better survival rate. Since then that modification has become standard in all neonatal respirators.  That's how progress is made, not by waiting for a bunch of EU type regulators to approve things that they know nothing about.

TheNewLab:
interesting using a 3D printer. Only I don't get how something made of hard plastic will work. A frame for the cloth or N95 material?

I DO like the creativity!

For my part, I have started going around my building wiping down door handles, rails, and other surface our tenants would typically touch. I am using a dilute Bleach mixture. It is mostly to reassure everyone in the building. It may be lame, however, tenants do feel reassured and that what counts...uh, beside all the recommended steps and hygiene.

I am seriously curious how the masks are being created.I my mind, I imagine some huge space helmet.  :P ;D

Kasper:
I've worked from home for a while and avoided crowds most my life so this makes very little impact to my schedule, aside from making more efficient grocery store trips and wasting less money at restaurants.

My wife just started working from home and it is quite entertaining listening to her interrogate people over the phone.

My neighbor is also off work (again) and has been working on his truck outside all week.  His favorite tool is the angle grinder and he somehow manages to find hours upon hours of work to do with it.

Red Squirrel:
They are still beating around the bush at my company, but from what I'm gathering what will happen is whoever is on 8h shift will get to work from home, and whoever is on 12h shift will still need to go to the office.  They insist that the office needs 24/7 coverage, which is BS really.  It is true that this would be the first time in history that this building has had nobody in it, but really, it's not that critical that someone is there.  We monitor over 1000 buildings and most of them are unmanned.

So really we'll still be getting exposed as due to scheduling it can't just be only 2 people that do the day/night rotation as it just does not logically work out, so it will be all of us on rotation basically, as normal scheduling goes.  To make matters worse our schedule can be sporadic, you can work 1 8h, 2 12h's, 1 8h, be off for a day, go back on 12hs etc... that will mean dragging equipment back and forth a lot.

But at the end of the day, I'm just happy I work in something considered essential so at least I still HAVE a job, and I'm getting paid.  Sad to see so many companies using this as an opportunity to do mass layoffs.   Lot of people are going to be jobless after all this is done.

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