Of course not if limited to strict, inflexible ideological dogma, but the net effect serves the "higher" goal via realpolitik: Make government the "enemy" to be destroyed like how Reagan believed or like how libertarians wish
That's the intended point.. mismanagement to form a self-fulfilling prophecy to justify and destroy government to allow more corruption and theft by the 1%; the libertarian wet dream.
Assuming, on the off chance, that this isn't some sort of quack treatment ploy, anything that works significantly would be a plus.
I'm on my 13th antidepressant now that is yet-again not working well and I'm starting to wonder if my condition is inflammation-mediated rather than receptor- or neurotransmitter-caused as only mirtazapine (also a powerful antihistamine) ever helped me significantly, but only for a limited time.
To manipulate people against their own interests to supposedly "save" PPE for HCWs, even though HCWs often get PPE from different manufacturers and distribution channels. Dishonesty and bad advice defeats the whole mission and purpose of public health organizations.
So the financial equivalent of being beaten and dragged off a plane. Airlines couldn't be anymore customer-hostile unless they needle behind the ear, shrink-wrapped people and threw them into piles like rolls of carpet.
I just learned cooking white and brown rice together doesn't work because the white rice will keep absorbing liquid until it's saturated, leaving hard/uncooked brown rice. Whoops. Haha.
Biggest "duh" ever. Daddy issues and mommy issues are nuanced but create similar patterns of damaged/altered behaviors in later life. Anyone who's done dating seriously becomes effectively an investigative psychologist to screen-out unhealthy candidates that would end up creating drama through their recurrent maladaptive/negative-attention-seeking relationship patterns.
Firstname lastname is too fragile and oversimplified. Suffix, prefix and a variable number of middle names/initials can also be necessary. Occasionally, legal name vs. nickname is also needed. But if there's no pressing need for grouping or sorting by surname, why piecemeal any of it out?
I would bet scraping from Amazon, reducing prices randomly from 20-50%, and being sure search engines and aggregators see it, i.e., Google/Google Shopping.
Yes. Defense-in-depth. In China, most hospital red zones required 3 layers of PPE, whether that's two masks and a face shield or such. One layer alone is not very good, and a face shield alone is no good. A mask and a face shield are very good, especially for confined spaces like subways and busses where there are jerks coughing and sneezing all over without hygiene or manners.
This is an inconvenient fact because most HNers tend to be wealthy or upper-middle class, first-world and myopic to their limited filter bubbles... and so utopian anarcho-capitalism and Austrian school economics seems meritocratic, functional, justified and superior to everything else.
An exercise in false hope, futility, ostensible charity, and virtue-signaling. Ventilator manufacturers have solved numerous issues including reliability, durability, noise levels and loop hygiene (as well as possible). Automotive engineers don't know what they're doing compared to ventilator engineers. Maybe they should stay in their lane rather than squander attention, time and money on something that is inherently dangerous to public health.
- I would not rely on data from the US because only serious and critical patients who were tested by public health departments are counted. Private lab results and "mild" cases go uncounted. Furthermore, not every COVID/ILI death is being tested or counted either.
Ignore the rtPCR test result data because SARS-CoV-2 still isn't a mandatory report condition (which is ridiculous) and so private labs don't report positive (or negative) results to any government regulators. The majority of tests are currently being conducted by private labs for people with insurance and only mostly critical cases are being tested, so basically no one infected is included in the statistics. The only ones being tested by the county are typically homeless, undocumented or other people who show up critically-ill to county hospitals.
Santa Clara county is about 2-3 weeks behind NY, which means the peak there will be roughly in 4-6 weeks. It's going to be a major disaster and emergency healthcare will be essentially unusable until mid June.
Also, the US unemployment numbers are highly-politicized and manipulated. For one, they fail to account for the labor force participation rate, livable wages, employment hours desired vs. actual, having to work multiple jobs while being unable to save, or not/having healthcare.
Worthless. BiPAPs are for sleep apnea, COPD and other minor NIV airway needs, not keeping patients who have narrow, high-pressure therapeutic windows alive between drowning and barotrauma while dodging ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia or spreading virions all over an ICU. There are needs for mostly adult NIV ICU ventilators, with additional needs for adult/child NIV/TI ICU/hospital room ventilators as well. There are roughly a dozen manufacturers globally, with about 3 in the US: GE, ResMed, and Vyaire (spun-off from BD), while Medtronic dodged US taxes with a corporate inversion to Ireland. IIRC, the second DPA order covers the US ones above, Medtronic, Phillips (Netherlands), and Hill-Rom (also US). I wonder how it works to compel a Dutch company to make things for the US market? Perhaps there are potential trade, sanctions, and/or property seizure ban-hammers involved.