Good eve, crypto warriors
I also heard some envy on the Spaniards' part that the Germans have boatloads of ventilators but won't lend them around their sister european nations. idk
I doubt that, because the germ government even asked car manufacturers if they could design and build ventilators, because of upcoming shortage.
The manufacturers replied that it's not possible in the short term, because production lines have to be set up or adapted and software as well as controllers would have to be developed first. Even worse, if they'd use their exisiting car tech as a starting point, the devices would not go through serious medical testing fast enough, which means if a device fails to work at some point, this would mean a dead patient.
Thinking about the trumpsters order to GM to build ventilators NOW
If @erre and @fillippone and whoever else of an Italian sensitivity could now close their ears
I just found an opened packet of wholewheat farfalle with a 2014 best before date at the back of the larder. It too k around 30 mins to soften up and then was perfectly delish with some shop pesto of the same era. /
A gourmet
Corn Wheat actually has a very long shelf life, as long as it's stored cool, dry and in the dark.
Not so sure about pesto because of the oil. Fat can get real ugly when
addled (is that the correct word?)
Yes it just illustrates Europeans' lack of trust between nations even in this crisis.
All the countries seem to have similar stories about ventilators and the race to make them and pass them.
The pesto oil hadn't gone
rancid.
Addled is eggs. And colloquially now, brains!
Damn,
rancid! I couldn't remember, but as i read it in your reply i was thinking of that 80s punk rock band, in case you know it.
Those golden days of leftist puberty... whatever, thanks for the english lesson
The EU never made it to the state of "union" (by definition), i think it's still only a trade agreement around a central currency.
Culture-wise the members did never unite, nor did they politically. It's all based on compromise, to keep up with the US (and the east) in the global monopoly game, imo.
If they/we don't make it to step up to a real "union", or something close to that at least, the EU
is prone would be very vulnerable to fall apart
, sooner or later. The Covid thing may turn out as a very good stress test in these matters.