Hi troll. I used to buy these little pencil tops as a kid that had little wizened faces on them and really long hair. You spun the pencil between your hands and then the troll's hair would get all wild.
It's funny how people have to paid to say the thing that was the elephant in the room during the early part of the pandemic.
Why would it be?
Maybe because teachers across America have no idea how to teach kids about proper communication with one's doctors.
Why? Because Johnny's aunt so and so had to be put out to pasture, because no one could figure out how to do the next ten years of her budget. So, it's a sensitive point for the family.
The BBC's Torchwood "Miracle Day" television series posits what might happen to all of us, if families couldn't do this. Dark thought, isn't it?
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Yes, ventilators kill people. But doctors (except in rare cases) do use them, because they are scared that the patient is going to die tout de suite.
Sometimes public policy makers in a place called New York City can arrange bounties for every coronavirus patient which is treated with all the trimmings.
Then, we have a lot of people dying unnecessarily. That's called "corruption."
Erin Olszewski wrote a book about it.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1357963/new-york-nurse-coronavirus-book-investigation-elmhurst-hospital
But, as said, usually they act in good conscience.
Unfortunately, as you rightly point out the results can be mixed, as these two items from early in the pandemic discuss.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3079526/coronavirus-are-ventilators-doing-more-harm-good-covid-19-patients (oops! that has a paywall now).
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