New York City Weighs Turning Hotels into Hospitals

Well, they have a lot of the infrastucture. The beds are different.

Cruise ships aren't bad options either.

I hear they're a bit underutilized

Paywalled but judging by the headline, it's honestly an interesting and great idea. Pay the hotels so they can survive, create a conversion plan with certain standards (Changing all filters to MERV-13 or something), and start auditing the process.

All preparing us for the asteroid hit next month... Hotels are now hospitals, Walmart parking lots are make-shift triage centers, military and national guard in every corner, people at home, kids out of school, no flights, empty air fields, workplaces are fully distributed with no central offices... I would do exactly that if I knew an asteroid was coming. People can relate to a "flu", not a direct hit...

https://www.newsweek.com/image-biggest-asteroid-earth-year-p...

"Passing by"... hmm I wonder