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originally posted by: Serdgiam
a reply to: Boadicea
But I keep saying I dislike Hanlons Razor. The reason is that malicious actors tend to fall back on incompetence as a defense.
The numbers from ventilators, specifically (at least when I looked), suggest they have little chance of working.. And frequently a very high chance of killing the patient used with typical protocol.
Coupled with the attitude towards treatments that are showing success.. And an unwitting population as an accomplice, and.. I dont know.
Makes me oddly hope that whatever was hoped to be gained, has been achieved.
Most, if not all, probably wonder why I talk so much about technology (including my own) that seems nearly completely unrelated to the situation at hand.
Perhaps China wasn't lying about their death toll...perhaps they were treating patients with CPAPs to mitigate the need for last-resort ventilators?
a reply to: Boadicea
Even before they knew about these problems ventilators are causing, they also knew about contaminated machines. They knew a percentage of patients would then contract those various antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections -- on top of the Covid.
They also know that denying treatment with CPAP machines would mean countless patients getting much worse -- crashing -- before even being put on ventilators.
Many (not all) doctors and emergency services are literally telling patients not to come in unless they're turning blue, or until their lips are blue.
There is no doubt that current treatment protocols are taking people to the brink of death before they can get any treatment.
In a truly beneficent medical industry -- one that put the patients' best interests at heart -- we would not have to even think along these lines. This is what I mean by "at some point..." Evil gives itself away eventually, when all good options are discarded and eliminated...
I don't understand why!
If your technology could prove helpful and beneficial, it would be discarded and eliminated from the available options as well by those in charge now.
- A frontline nurse working in New York on coronavirus patients claims the city is killing sufferers by putting them on ventilators, advocating against them
- The nurse persuaded a friend, a nurse practitioner who is not working on coronavirus patients, to make the video to get the word out
- 'It's a horror movie. Not because of the disease, but the way it is being handled,' the frontline nurse said through the friend, who only was identified as Sara NP
- Sara said COVID-19 patients are placed on ventilators rather than less invasive CPAP or BiPAP machines due to fears about the virus spreading
- She explained: 'The ventilators have high pressure, which then causes barotrauma, it causes trauma to the lungs'
- New York emergency room doctor Cameron Kyle-Sidell stepped down this month because he didn't want to follow the hospital's ventilator protocol
- Republican Minnesota Senator Scott Jensen told Fox News' Laura Ingraham that Medicare pays hospitals three times as much if patients are placed on ventilators
'She has never seen so much neglect. No one cares. They are cold and they don't care anymore. It's the blind leading the blind...
People are sick, but they don't have to stay sick. They are killing them, they are not helping them...
Patients are left to rot and die — her words. People are being murdered and no one cares...
In a YouTube video posted earlier this month New York emergency room doctor Cameron Kyle-Sidell said: 'I've talked to doctors all around the country and it is becoming increasingly clear that the pressure we're providing may be hurting their lungs.
'It is highly likely that the high pressures we're using are damaging the lungs of the patients we are putting the breathing tubes in. 'It's not our fault. We didn't know...
'We are running the ventilators the wrong way,' he said, calling for the protocols to be changed.
'COVID positive patients need oxygen, they do not need pressure. They will need ventilators, but they must be programmed differently.'
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: MotherMayEye
Perhaps China wasn't lying about their death toll...perhaps they were treating patients with CPAPs to mitigate the need for last-resort ventilators?
I'm wondering the same. Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing. And not by accident.
“We need to ask, are we using ventilators in a way that makes sense for other diseases but not for this one?” Gillick said. “Instead of asking how do we ration a scarce resource, we should be asking how do we best treat this disease?”
Researchers and clinicians on the front lines are trying. In a small study last week in Annals of Intensive Care, physicians who treated Covid-19 patients at two hospitals in China found that the majority of patients needed no more than a nasal cannula. Among the 41% who needed more intense breathing support, none was put on a ventilator right away. Instead, they were given noninvasive devices such as BiPAP; their blood oxygen levels “significantly improved” after an hour or two. (Eventually two of seven needed to be intubated.) The researchers concluded that the more comfortable nasal cannula is just as good as BiPAP and that a middle ground is as safe for Covid-19 patients as quicker use of a ventilator.
“Anecdotal experience from Italy [also suggests] that they were able to support a number of folks using these [non-invasive] methods,” Japa said.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: MotherMayEye
Perhaps China wasn't lying about their death toll...perhaps they were treating patients with CPAPs to mitigate the need for last-resort ventilators?
I'm wondering the same. Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing. And not by accident.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: MotherMayEye
I will read it... as soon as I'm done watching the nurse video.
Please PLEASE watch it.
It's horrifying.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: MotherMayEye
I will read it... as soon as I'm done watching the nurse video.
Please PLEASE watch it.
It's horrifying.
Did you hear advice about how to get them to treat with a medication you would prefer? Tell them it's an at-home medication and you'd like it to be continued. It sounds like they may know you are full of sh** but that's what they need to hear to be able to provide it.
Oh and demand non-invasive respiratory treatments...demand the CPAP and refuse to authorize intubation.
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
I think you might be interested in the entire article:
With ventilators running out, doctors say the machines are overused for Covid-19
The question is whether ICU physicians are moving patients to mechanical ventilators too quickly. “Almost the entire decision tree is driven by oxygen saturation levels,” said the emergency medicine physician, who asked not to be named so as not to appear to be criticizing colleagues.
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: Boadicea
They took oaths to do no harm...this has to be causing them so much distress.
originally posted by: DarkestConspiracyMoon
Nurse Admits Virus Is A Lie
I checked the forums to see if this has been brought up on here already but nothing came up, so if it's a double post my apologies.
So what I gathered from this nurse here is that apparently the shortage of ventilators isn't a thing, a least in that hospital, and that they're being told NOT to use the procedures and machines they would use before a ventilator. What is the percentage of deaths that occur while on a ventilator, wasn't it somewhere around 80%? He also mentions something that's been brought up a lot recently and that is the act of correlating deaths to covid-19 no matter how the patient actually died or what they died from. And according to a comment on that video, there has been more of these videos but they keep getting deleted. Weird uncertain times.