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Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators by ahelwer on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:24PM (#22723336)
lol this whole thread reminds me of the first time I dated a medical resident, carrying myself with similar confidence seen here, and quickly realized (after pissing them off with intensely ignorant statements a few times) I knew absolutely goddam nothing about medicine and how the human body works.
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Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators by ALittleLight on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:28PM (#22724084)
Overconfidence is one class of error. Imagining that a ventilator is a magic machine you can only operate with the sorcerous reagent of a medical degree is another.

Do you know how to operate a ventilator? Why do you think that volunteers couldn't learn to do it?

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