New York City Weighs Turning Hotels into Hospitals

Post by Digory » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 10:41 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #64

There was a guy on here a few days ago who owns some hotels. He said he would be fine with this as long as they: paid to move his current customers to his other hotels, cleaned the rooms and returned them to their original condition when they were done, provided safety gear to his employees that would need to keep working, and provide paychecks for his employees that are furloughed. I think. I can't find the comment…

Post by i_am_proteus » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 10:48 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #45

i_am_proteus wrote: post #43

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Because the nature of response varies so much in between different locations and local expertise is often best poised to deal with local problems. Federal resources are better for things like logistics (ship 500,000 masks to where they're needed), but New York probably knows how to get aid to New York best. Ignoring local expertise to blindly chase efficiency of large-scale enterprise is perilous.

> Because the nature of response varies so much in between different locations and local expertise is often best poised to deal with local problems. Is that really true here? I can certainly see an urban vs rural divide, but beyond that I can’t see what makes individual states all that different.

Post by stevenwoo » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 11:48 PM UTC

petertodd wrote: post #55

schoen wrote: post #23

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I wonder why the air aboard cruise ships has to recirculate so much—it seems like cruise ships are usually about 1/2 surrounded by breathable air at normal atmospheric pressure. Is it about heating and cooling, like, passengers would feel very uncomfortable if the air in their cabins had a lot of fresh sea air mixed into it? Do they do something to filter out the salt from the air intake?

Because fresh air needs to be heated or cooled, and that's expensive when you're running everything off diesel. Heat exchangers do help, but they're not perfect, so every bit of outside ventilation costs money. This is why fume hoods which exhaust to the outside can be surprisingly expensive to run in cold/hot climates.

Post by greedo » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 12:38 AM UTC

robotnikman wrote: post #99

thephyber wrote: post #93

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I read that the president ordered US hospital ships to be ready near the east and west coasts. I would argue that getting the military exposed to the virus early during peacetime in a staggered way is exactly what we should do. There can’t be many elderly or immunocompromised stationed on those ships and if the entire ship is exposed once, the ship is more resilient in the future. In a few months, the sailors are the…

There's also the fact that Naval ships are built with countermeasures against Nuclear/Biological/Chemical threats in mind, they probably are designed better against a viral threat than a civilian ship, including better air filtration capabilities

Post by beamatronic » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 1:26 AM UTC

asah wrote: post #22

public school gymnasiums?