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Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore spoke to the New York Times about what it would take to reopen the economy during a pandemic.
Said Moore: We can use really good public safety measures, social distancing the work force, disinfectants everywhere, masks. I was thinking this morning, and this is just kind of a thought experiment because I was thinking about this why dont we just put everybody in a space outfit or something like that? No. Seriously.
He added: You have to make 200 million of these, but it wouldnt have cost $3 trillion to do that. And you can have for months people just walking around in these kind of I mean, I was looking online, and there are all these kinds of suits that theyre building now that youre not exposed and youre breath kind of ventilator.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/23/trump-adviser-suggests-putting-workers-in-spacesuits/
Chainfire
(17,605 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,856 posts)Thanks for that.
rzemanfl
(29,567 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,434 posts)into the sun
rzemanfl
(29,567 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,470 posts)The cost of a spacesuit originally was about $22 million. Building one from scratch right now can be as much as 250 million.
Lulu KC
(2,572 posts)That would have been really funny back before people started dying.
Damn it. They've taken away funny.
Bastards.
grumpyduck
(6,246 posts)or open it and remove all doubt."
Or words to that effect.
LakeArenal
(28,836 posts)He should start by wearing one for 4-8 hours a day. On his feet all day. Working at something service oriented.
Journeyman
(15,037 posts)and they'd be a lot more fun . . .
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)"Yar, I don't know what I'm doing"
brewens
(13,616 posts)would be to do most jobs wearing one. He may never have had a job where you didn't go to work in a suit. Anyway, just the hazmat suits would be a fortune and take way too long to get to everybody.
pwb
(11,287 posts)This idiot advises trump? no wonder