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I said nothing even approximately like "all those people are probably going to die anyway" and that is not, in fact, what I think! It is offensive that you woul

I said nothing even approximately like "all those people are probably going to die anyway" and that is not, in fact, what I think! It is offensive that you would make up something like that and claim that is what I said. What a growing number of doctors are saying is that ventilators often turn out to do more harm than good in treating COVID, ventilators have been used too soon and too often in treating COVID, and ventilators have probably resulted in excess deaths over alternative treatments.

newacct583 6y ago
I apologize if I offended you. That certainly seemed like what you were saying. The take is not new, and has been circulating among the "open up" community for a while. As far as whether ventilators have "probably resulted in excess deaths"... that's just not justified by any science yet. We don't know. There's some suspicion in that direction, based mostly on New York ICU fatality rates (which are quite high despite otherwise good numbers through the rest of the process). But there's equally good evidence from e.g. Milan, which experienced very high death rates due presumptively to lack of treatment hardware.