Posted on 05/17/2021 2:07:08 PM PDT by TBP
At its most severe, the coronavirus attacks the lungs, making it impossible to breathe without a ventilator. Landing in the hospital on a ventilator is bad. But worse is being told you can’t have one.
Hospitals in New York are running short.
Several years ago, after learning that the Empire State’s stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than the 18,000 New Yorkers would need in a severe pandemic, state public-health leaders came to a fork in the road.
They could have chosen to buy more ventilators to back up the supplies hospitals maintain. Instead, the health commissioner, Howard Zucker, assembled a task force for rationing the ventilators they already had.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Biden just moved billions Congress voted for increasing the PPE stockpile to funding illegals.
There are a few parts of the problem with government. People of the US have been conditioned to the aspect of denial. No one will attack us or threaten us. We are a country of superheroes that can’t be harmed. Generations of citizens have been surprised so often and they just don’t learn about seeing the obvious, or get taught to look.
The government always seems to have the answer to their problem right after it surfaces. Sometimes after many years of it until it is advertised to be the most horrific thing on this little dirt clod, or an actual thing they admit to knowing was coming, but had to wait for it to arrive like tornadoes. They even developed organizations to offset these types of problems in advance: FEMA, the Red Cross, and in the old days, civil defense.
They glorified groups until they became a nuisance: the military, the spies, nuclear power, and the latest, the police. Lawyers will never end up like that as most of our politicians are lawyers. Can’t cut off your own nose.
They have taught (forced) us to buy certain things they wish to provide, travel the way they want, pay for our own property just to keep it in the family every year, and do it by lying and setting prices no one can afford (except them). The stopped taxing items and are now using use taxes: gasoline, tolls, certain vehicles that cause price increases like trucks, higher sales taxes on certain items like candy and soda to make you not use them.
You can “Baaa” all you want, but they are closing the gate on the corral and many inside are not seeing it because they trust the shepherds and are not looking. And the shepherds are saying the grass inside the corral is better than the meadow. Is it?
wy69
New limos & office furniture vs. more ventilators. No contest.
Article on vents in landfill:
"However, the Beijing Aerospace ChangFeng Ltd ACM812A was not on a list of 86 ventilator models approved for emergency authorized use by the FDA."
Somebody was trying to make some bucks selling Chinesium during the panic over ventilators.
The hospital ships weren’t a waste, except Governors Cuomo and Newsome refused to use them. Better people die than Trump gets credit.
That’s liberal compassion in action.
Actually, what we had to do was look for treatments so people didn’t get to the point where they needed a ventilator. But of course Fauci et al shot those down immediately.
Remember, “Trump wants people to drink fish tank cleaner”? Many lives could have been saved with available treatments and the ventilators, which turned out to do more harm than good, would never have been used.
Saw those too. Too expensive to ship overseas (Africa?) or too expensive for storage? Faulty product?
FYI there was about 60 ventilators at the dump.
There never was a vent shortage. To think that means you believed the liberal media.
The survival rate of anyone with COVID-19 went on a vent is about 5%. That is it, a vent was a death sentence and yet they were needed.
95%
There never was a shortage.
There was in New York.
This article is simply too old for me to share with my genius friends who are Ventilator Masters.
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