OSE Principles of Collaborative Design for COVID

OSE aims to uncover and facilitate different avenues for larger numbers of people to get involved in producing solutions for COVID, by identifying tasks that many available people can do, while not requiring excessive training. There are many such activities under way, and as such OSE would like to facilitate execution on the highest priority items.

Priorities: halt of spread, with testing and selective isolation. This is reflected in this article - [1]

OSE believes that halt of spread must start with first caring for first responders: nurses, EMTs, firefighters, doctors, medical staff.

OSE Proposal

1. Widespread availability of PAPRs for first responsders, then general public
2. Widespread access to testing, leading to proper and voluntary/enforced isolation decisions (depending on the situation).
3. Widespread access to ventilators for when shit hits the fan

OSE Methods

1. Develop designs for and produce PAPRs via distributed manufacturing using common, off-the-shelf parts. Including import substitution by building components that are at risk of being disrupted.
2. Coordinate information flows regarding access to COVID testing, and encouraging individuals who are up for the challenge in every town everywhere to make that test available to the community. Coordinating with first response teams and leadership to assure access.
3. Coordinate creation of temporary hospitals or party sites for the infected, to halt spread to healthy people