Hi Alex,
great idea, thanks for that! Can we think of a solution that would be a
little more scalable? Can we (e.g. via a mobile app) help connect people
who need help with people who might offer help? Can we do this in
reasonable time?
On 3/18/20 11:42 PM, Alex Amato wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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
