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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by masklinn on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:25PM (#29016261)
That makes absolutely no sense, Wu is in china so some back and forth in order to get the collars to fit correctly is to be expected. Following which you're done because the chinese shop can make the collars to order whenever that's needed.

> bringing a Twitter personality into a story that's not really about her?

Wu was already involved in this. Per her comments she'd already sent packages of collars to be tested and altered / fitted.

Hell, mentioning that there was a volunteer / grassroots effort to produce new collars would have been more honest than the article going "collars where?"

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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by morelisp on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:30PM (#29016340)
It's a light human interest story, not a comprehensive international assessment of iron lungs parts suppliers or formal inventory and provenance check of Martha's stock.
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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by junon on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:46PM (#29029855)
> It's a light human interest story

It's NPR. There's no excuse for poor sensationalist journalism even from them.

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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by morelisp on Thursday October 28, 2021 @03:47PM (#29030850)
A brief retrospective of iron lungs and the technical difficulties faced by people who still prefer them is among the least sensationalist pieces of writing I can imagine. Where you normally get news that's so sedate by this standard?
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