China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
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Re: China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
#2Setting aside quality assurance and risk assessment/mitigation, I'm seriously impressed with the speed in which they construct complex infrastructure.
The are some good reasons we don't quite go at this pace, but there are lots of good lessons about expediency to be gleaned as well.
Re: China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
#3They are using pre-fab (not sure if this article mentioned that). Makes things so much easier where buildings can be built in factories with similar standards. Lots of new builds nowadays have so many little issues due to bad quality control.
Re: China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
#4They are using pre-fab (not sure if this article mentioned that). Makes things so much easier where buildings can be built in factories with similar standards. Lots of new builds nowadays have so many little issues due to bad quality control.
yes, it mentions it clearly.
Re: China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
#5They are using pre-fab (not sure if this article mentioned that). Makes things so much easier where buildings can be built in factories with similar standards. Lots of new builds nowadays have so many little issues due to bad quality control.
Even with prefab components this is an amazing achievement. I suspect that here in Germany we would still be waiting for the hospital to treat the Marburg virus patients to be completed.
Re: China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
#6Setting aside quality assurance and risk assessment/mitigation, I'm seriously impressed with the speed in which they construct complex infrastructure. The are some good reasons we don't quite go at this pace, but there are lots of good lessons about expediency to be gleaned as well.
Viruses seem to start and spread faster using the complex infrastructure.
This is yet another reason to prefer independent cars to herd-like public transport.
Re: China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
#7They are using pre-fab (not sure if this article mentioned that). Makes things so much easier where buildings can be built in factories with similar standards. Lots of new builds nowadays have so many little issues due to bad quality control.
Even with prefab components this is an amazing achievement. I suspect that here in Germany we would still be waiting for the hospital to treat the Marburg virus patients to be completed.
>I suspect that here in Germany we would still be waiting for the hospital to treat the Marburg virus patients to be completed.
>from Fefe [0] "[...] it's done by 3rd of feb. I suppose we could do the same in Germany, but it'd be 3rd of feb 2030."
Re: China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
#8Setting aside quality assurance and risk assessment/mitigation, I'm seriously impressed with the speed in which they construct complex infrastructure. The are some good reasons we don't quite go at this pace, but there are lots of good lessons about expediency to be gleaned as well.
Has it occurred to you that in a free market economy these beds may already have been built? Are you impressed by reports of patients showing concerning symptoms being turned away from government-run hospitals?
There's really just one lesson and that is anything built by a government is on average inferior to the same thing built by private sector.
Maybe the China government is less wasteful than the US government. The solution to optimizing the both is to privatize everything. Why should one be impressed by a less bad choice?
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Re: China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
#10Setting aside quality assurance and risk assessment/mitigation, I'm seriously impressed with the speed in which they construct complex infrastructure. The are some good reasons we don't quite go at this pace, but there are lots of good lessons about expediency to be gleaned as well.
Viruses seem to start and spread faster using the complex infrastructure. This is yet another reason to prefer independent cars to herd-like public transport.
I had to laugh at this comment, since it’s quite true.
So would you prefer to spend a week driving from Los Angeles to New York, instead of spending 5 hours flying, in a herd-like tin can, crammed full of people, and re-breathing the same recycled air?