Here is one thing many people could do: - Contact your neighbors (leave a note on their door with your phone number) and find out if anyone is high risk and does not want to risk leaving their home. If you are lower risk and willing to go out. Insist that you can help them and obtain supplies for them. Or help them order online if they don't know how. - If there are neighbours who live along, also give them your phone number. Help keep track of them incase they get sick.
More technical and farfetched idea: - Building custom ventilators. In some locations they are already out of respirators, and they will need more. You could donate these to a hospital, though I am not sure if they would use them (but they might be willing to if there is no other option). There are a few blogs on how to build these from supplies available in a crisis. A little bit of DIY knowhow and it may be possible to build a few. Even a few low quality ventilators could save some lives. Though, it may be possible there are more skilled people or local shops already doing this. Helping them get supplies and funds is another option. https://www.instructables.com/id/The-Pandemic-Ventilator/ On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:27 PM Jan Lukavský <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm taking this opportunity to speak to this "streaming first" and > "datadriven" community to try to do a little brainstorming. I'm not > trying to create any panic, I'd like to start a serious discussion about > solving a problem. I'm well aware this is not the primary use-case for > this mailing list, but we are in a sort of special situation. I think we > might share a know-how that might help people and so we could take > advantage of that. Currently, the biggest concern (at least in Europe) > seems to be separating people as much as possible. My questions would be: > > - Can we try to think of ways to help people achieve better > separation? There are places people must go to (e.g. shopping food), can > we help planning this so that there are less peaks? > > - Can we find any other ways to help prevent the virus spread? Or any > other benefits we can do for people (e.g. missing medical supplies, > missing work force, ...) > > - Does anyone have any infrastructure or data that can be used for this? > > - Would people be interested in investing some of their (hacking) time > to implement any "global" precaution(s)? IMO there seems to be no > "local" solution to this, currently. > > These are only a few questions from the top of my head, please feel free > to add any thoughts. > > Cheers, > > Jan > >
