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Musk isn't a healthcare professional and he doesn't know the language. He asks hospitals if they want ventilators, and they give him a list of machines to buy.

by DanBC 7y ago

Musk isn't a healthcare professional and he doesn't know the language. He asks hospitals if they want ventilators, and they give him a list of machines to buy. He buys those. He doesn't know the difference between a ventilator and BiPAP machine. He does know they're both used for ventilation, and he mistakenly calls them both ventilators.

nabla9 7y ago
Tesla factories are making real ventilators as we speak. He should at least have cursory knowledge of the terminology.
- DanBC 7y ago
  https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/bipap https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-t... > Some medical problems can make it hard for you to breathe. In these cases, you might benefit from bilevel positive airway pressure. It is commonly known as “BiPap” or “BPap.” It is a type of ventilator—a device that helps with breathing We talk about the problems of jargon and people think that's the unexpanded acronyms or the complex Latin. But these uses of jargon are obvious and clearly visible. If you use the word agranulocytosis I know that I don't know what you mean and I ask you and we have a conversation and I learn something. The wicked jargon is the normal English word to which we apply a very specific meaning. Here's a machine. We use it to provide mechanical ventilation. Those patients are receiving ventilation. The machine is a class of ventilator. Don't ever call it a ventilator though, because it's a BiPap machine. Maybe Musk should be a bit more humble. It'd help his corporate comms if he just came out and said "I don't know what a vent is, but I asked hospitals what they wanted and I bought the machines they asked for".
  - onetimemanytime 7y ago
    OK, so Musk the genius in all, knew that ventilators do harm so he sent these other machines in his own initiative? :) He should learn to shut the f up, he shouldn't feel the need to jump in everything and try to suck all the air out. He has saved people from caves, solved the traffic in LA, now help beat the CoronaVirus etc etc. 1000 ventilators cost, max $25-$50 Million. He should have bought them. And yeah I think he has enough connections to get them from China.
    - DanBC 7y ago
      I hate Musk, but this... > so Musk the genius in all, knew that ventilators do harm so he sent these other machines in his own initiative ...isn't the claim being made. He says that he asked hospitals a list of machines to buy, and then he went and bought them. He says he bought what they asked him to buy.

by DanBC 7y ago

nabla9 7y ago

Tesla factories are making real ventilators as we speak. He should at least have cursory knowledge of the terminology.

DanBC 7y ago
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/bipap https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-t... > Some medical problems can make it hard for you to breathe. In these cases, you might benefit from bilevel positive airway pressure. It is commonly known as “BiPap” or “BPap.” It is a type of ventilator—a device that helps with breathing We talk about the problems of jargon and people think that's the unexpanded acronyms or the complex Latin. But these uses of jargon are obvious and clearly visible. If you use the word agranulocytosis I know that I don't know what you mean and I ask you and we have a conversation and I learn something. The wicked jargon is the normal English word to which we apply a very specific meaning. Here's a machine. We use it to provide mechanical ventilation. Those patients are receiving ventilation. The machine is a class of ventilator. Don't ever call it a ventilator though, because it's a BiPap machine. Maybe Musk should be a bit more humble. It'd help his corporate comms if he just came out and said "I don't know what a vent is, but I asked hospitals what they wanted and I bought the machines they asked for".
- onetimemanytime 7y ago
  OK, so Musk the genius in all, knew that ventilators do harm so he sent these other machines in his own initiative? :) He should learn to shut the f up, he shouldn't feel the need to jump in everything and try to suck all the air out. He has saved people from caves, solved the traffic in LA, now help beat the CoronaVirus etc etc. 1000 ventilators cost, max $25-$50 Million. He should have bought them. And yeah I think he has enough connections to get them from China.
  - DanBC 7y ago
    I hate Musk, but this... > so Musk the genius in all, knew that ventilators do harm so he sent these other machines in his own initiative ...isn't the claim being made. He says that he asked hospitals a list of machines to buy, and then he went and bought them. He says he bought what they asked him to buy.