Posted on 12/19/2020 9:46:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
NO OXYGENATION
NO PEACE
I own one of these racist devices. It cost around 20 bucks. Part of the reason for getting it was to test for the WuFlu. I suppose, now that it has been proven to be racist, it will become illegal for whites to use it.
It makes sense that it is sensitive to skin color. It uses a light beam shining through the skin! That will probably become illegal, too. Skin color can only be used affirmatively, to determine vaccine eligibility, not for diagnosis of illness.
Here we go with this “maybe” sh*t again!
Yyyeahhh. It seems like there would be an easy way to test this theory.
I do know this now about Covid-19 and our blood oxygen levels.
While it is true that one of the known routes of the Covid-19 bug can very early affect the blood oxygen levels.
However, that is not universal.
I have a cousin, age 84, who got the bug in November, around thanksgiving. Throughout what I will next describe his blood oxygen levels were not low (not below 95%).
He had a couple things going on. He had had some dental surgery done and he had diarrhea that Pepto Bismal did not resolve. He was getting weaker due to the continued diarrhea so his wife took him to a hospital emergency clinic. At first he and the emergency room doctors thought it might be a staph infection incurred with the recent oral surgery. Tests were done for that and those tests were negative. They did a Covid-19 test and it was positive.
He was having zero breathing difficulties, but his kidney function was registering only 25% of normal.
They gave him fluids by mouth and intravenously and they gave him some meds - hydroxychloroquine, zinc and azrithomycin.
He went home in three days, when the kidney function was showing 60% of normal and has kept up with a large intact of fluids.
I spoke to him last night and he said he is doing real good.
So, with my cousin, the bug seemed to have settled in his kidneys and he was having no loss of blood oxygen - just lots of diarrhea.
Bless him - 84 years old and Covid-19 does not take him down.
Skin is thicker???
Perhaps their skin is darker.
Pigments such as nail polish have been well known to give erroneous readings from pulse oximeters.
Completely ridiculous to have titled their study:
Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2029240
Just a bunch of race baiting “woke” idiots.
Maybe we should title another study on how unfair it is that sunscreens work much better in those individuals with darker skin?
No, it is a specialized test. It is not ordered routinely unless the patient is exhibiting symptoms, the lab tech notices sickled cells in a differential and contacts the ordering MD, or they are being screened for a job dealing with high altitude such as a pilot, flight crew, etc.
There are two ideas that are commonplace in the medical community.
The first one is that you treat the patient and not the machine. If a patient has a machine that has alarms going off signalling that the patient has no heartbeat, and you rush into the room to find them sitting up in bed asking, “What is for dinner?” then that is obviously a false alarm.
When my mother’s pacemaker failed 3 times in a few days, which resulted in her blacking out, which then led to 911 calls. I explained this to her cardiologist who refused to believe me. The Holter monitor test did not show any issues. He was treating the Holter instead of the patient?? Something managed to grab the cardiologist’s attention perhaps ED reports with ambulance documents? (My theory -Prayer opened his eyes). He called on a Sunday night profusely apologizing and wanting to see her the next morning. He did up the heart rate on the pacemaker, but still did not believe me that the pacemaker was failing. She did it again a few days later, which resulted in her getting a brand new pacemaker. That cardiologist got a really good lesson on “listening to the patient and family” and is still on an apology tour.
So yeah it is kinda important to treat the patient and not the machines.
The next concept is evidence based practices. This means that you have to prove that it works before you can use it or teach it. In this case they had evidence that the pulse ox was not properly reading the O2 saturation levels in those that have higher levels of pigmentation in their skin. If this has been shown to have some merit, it should have been researched immediately to ensure that the medical community was doing it best of all patients since oxygen is kinda important to sustaining life.
So this isn’t about race or anyone playing the race card, this is about people from all over the world obtaining quality medical care that they need to survive.
A process known as "calibration."
TY that is a better choice of a word to describe that process.
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