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by brodie 7y ago
If you got something directed at your eyes, you’ll be inhaling something anyway. Wear glasses or shades and stop depriving hospitals of limited supplies they actually need. You don’t need it. Buying one is tantamount to endangering lives of
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by brodie 7y ago
Plenty of essential public areas are building plastic drapes. That’s effectively the same thing but likely cheaper and not depriving medical professionals of anything.
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by brodie 7y ago
Face shields aren’t protective in this context for the general public. No one is intubating coughing patients or working in messy medical situations unless they’re medical professionals. It isn’t sad that hypochondriacs might not have acces
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by brodie 7y ago
That this article was written shows clearly that we don’t have enough of them and that any non-medical professional buying them is only contributing to the population of ill and the dead.
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by brodie 7y ago
Speculation doesn’t make you right. “Likely to” counts for not much. It’s sad you made that purchase. I wonder if that deprived a doctor or nurse of one. If they died, you’ve essentially condemned them to that. Is your own selfish neurosis
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by brodie 7y ago
I know you’re being facetious, but I certainly hope he does no such purchasing.
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by brodie 7y ago
There’s no mental gymnastics happening. You’re just ignoring what medical workers are saying and assuming your intuition is infallible. It’s easy to understand why it’s dangerous to deprive those workers of shields to benefit to yourself. A
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by brodie 7y ago
Face shields aren’t seatbelts. Someone put it well when they said they’re ejector seats. I assume you aren’t flying jets or intubating patients.
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by brodie 7y ago
Because they’re dying doesn’t mean shields will help. I think the medically inclined people in this discussion are making reasoned arguments. You however are just appealing to hysteria. I can imagine so many other more likely reasons for th
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by brodie 7y ago
Face shields aren’t protective wear in public. Taking them away from doctors and nurses however does increase mortality for them and patients in general.
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by brodie 7y ago
Plenty of states have stay at home orders. Mine does. It isn’t clear to me the federal government has the authority to issue that kind of order, short of martial law. The US government isn’t identical to many other countries. States are lik
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by brodie 7y ago
You’re not listening to what he said. He argued no such thing. You however seem content to deprive doctors and nurses of important tools and compromise their safety and patient safety so you can selfishly take something that provides zero p
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by brodie 7y ago
They don’t provide the general public any significant protection. It’s basically the same as not wearing one, except you’re condemning health professionals to increased risk, exposure, and possible death.
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by brodie 7y ago
They don’t reduce risk of infection in day to day situations. They’re specialized medical tools used in appropriate situations. Also, please put on a mask and leave your house. You aren’t on permanent curfew. Do some essential activities ea
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by brodie 7y ago
I had to go to the hospital today for a follow up X-ray after a month long life threatening illness. Every single desk and checkpoint inside either had the glass windows slightly cracked open but essentially closed, or they were draped in p
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by brodie 7y ago
These aren’t masks. Shields aren’t going to be as helpful as masks and medical workers need them much more and we need medical workers to stay alive.
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by brodie 7y ago
You’re allowed to leave your house. Exercise, pet walking, and essential shopping and other essential activities aren’t banned. Put on a mask and go for a walk in your neighborhood and keep social distancing.
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by brodie 7y ago
The majority of the replies from non-medical professionals here on this supposedly intelligent forum perfectly illustrates why that happens. People think they can tackle any problem and come to the correct conclusion with a minute of thinki
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by brodie 7y ago
If anything his comment reinforces negative stereotypes about the two regions. So many people in the Bay Area look down on Oakland like it’s a blighted disease-ridden wasteland and think the peninsula is some kind of haven for the rich and
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by brodie 7y ago
Does esophageal intubation happen much? I was intubated a month ago due to non-COVID respiratory failure. I also ended up getting pneumonia but no one knows when I got it. If that happened to me would my medical team have told me? Speaking
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by brodie 7y ago
I hope a doctor or nurse or respiratory therapist can correct me, but my layman’s impression is that intubation itself isn’t causing deaths as much as having to be intubated means you’re already in dire straits. I was recently intubated 3 t
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by brodie 7y ago
It’s okay to admit you’re wrong. It’s okay to not understand everything. It’s okay to defer to experts. So many people on HN and in tech have the same attitude that if they just spend 5 minutes thinking about something then they can intuit
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by brodie 7y ago
Are they intubating COVID-19 patients without general anesthesia? I've been in the hospital a month due to pneumonia and have been intubated 3 times. The second and third times they did intubation and extubation all under general. The
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by brodie 7y ago
I've noticed the same thing. In my twenties waking up before ten was extremely difficult and made getting into work stressful every morning. But now in my thirties I find myself awake when the sun rises without issue.
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by brodie 7y ago
I’ve experienced a number of them and never felt anything leading up to them. The last decent one I can remember was a few years ago around maybe 2 or 3 AM and made my apartment roll back and forth. The rolling woke me up but my partner sle
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by brodie 7y ago
Trains, planes, and automobiles would surely still function? Is there something inherently better about seafaring ships? Wouldn't the ports just move?
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by brodie 7y ago
Marshland and lagoons sounds a bit different than ocean, though. Would they not be easier to drain and contain? Or are you saying this past makes it more susceptible to bay/ocean encroachment in the future? I'm no civil engineer s
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by brodie 7y ago
Why would SF go away without a bay? Do you mean because of tourism? If anything it seems like SF would grow its boundaries if this happened.
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by brodie 7y ago
It's hard to imagine SF being affected by this that much anytime soon. I can imagine the Marina and places like that having issues, but SF itself is so tall and there's so much hard rock everywhere. But I don't know much abou
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by brodie 8y ago
Based on my own personal experience of putting myself in a position of dying now probably more times than I can count (unfortunately), I've been seriously wondering if the universe does contain all of my deaths as well, but my consciou

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