“ARDS needs ventilators. That is not what most of the ICU cases benefit from.”
If I remember correctly you said only 30% of ARDS patients need ventilators.
You remember wrongly.
I have always maintained in this conversation that only 30% of patients actually have ARDS when they present with serious symptoms that normally lead to ventilator use. These remaining people will not be helped, or worse, be hurt, by ventilators.