The present nationwide emergency shouldn't be like these the nation has managed by earlier than.

The auto trade is rightfully happy with its position in World Struggle II and even within the wake of 9/11. However it is a totally different form of battle in opposition to a distinct form of enemy. The entrance traces are in hospitals and clinics, the place nurses and medical doctors and different staffers bravely are likely to those that are or could also be contaminated with this lethal, flu-like virus. And lots of face a scarcity of primary gear resembling masks and gloves.

Simply because it has in different calamities, the auto trade can and can assist. Normal Motors, Ford and others are already getting ready to assist within the manufacture of much-needed ventilators very important to retaining alive these struggling the harshest results from coronavirus an infection.

This "Arsenal of Well being" response, as some have taken to calling it, harks again to the very important position the American auto trade performed in serving to the Allies to victory in World Struggle II. Tooling up and spooling up manufacturing of...