PeterGray wrote:giving the impression that they really want to help
Quite. Musk certainly has form on this.
The news media are lapping up Dyson, who is clearly good at self promotion, but there's something a little odd in the govt showing no interest when contacted by an existing, experienced, medical parts manufacturer, when they are supposed to be buying respirators like no tomorrow. There are a several people in the business, or or working with people on the medical side who have developed easy to make respirator designs, others who have apparently offered, yet everyone is wetting themselves about a vacuum manufacturer.
Don't get me wrong, we need respirators badly, and anyone coming up with a workable solution should be welcomed. But if media celebrity fixation leads to what may well not the be best option being picked than we all lose out.
Yes, this was the point I was trying to make.
In times of trouble like this it is the duty of the CEO of a company that thinks it can help, to lobby politicians and media and make sure that he or she is heard and to have a long shopping list of what he or she can do and what they need.
It is not, imho, the job of the the CEO to be as quiet and humble as a church mouse, filling in web pages etc and then coming on a media show as though the politicians should have come to his door and been over flowing with gifts and money.
The world does not work like that.
Regards,