This is the most pennywise, pound foolish thing ever. US GDP is normally about $59 billion a day. If the quarantine is costing us even a fraction of that you could make ventilators out of antique cars and face masks out of designer gowns and it would still be worth it. https://t.co/QAQYIAgs7r
— Rogue Works Progress Admínistration (@GabrielRossman) March 28, 2020
The average ventilator weighs about 15 pounds, or 240 ounces. The price of gold is currently at $1,675 per ounce.
Therefore, a ventilator made out of pure gold (not possible, but just a thought experiment) would weigh more like 80 pounds and would therefore cost $2.14 million each if it consisted of gold only. Even with that absurd stipulation, it’d now still be worth making thousands of them considering how much this virus is destroying the economy.
That’s right — it’s now cost-effective to manufacture ventilators out of pure gold. Shows you how we are a land full of dipshits ruled by the biggest dipshit.