Federal Mask mandate
I've read several articles and cant find any out for folks boondocking. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-executive-order-mask-wearing-federal-land Again city folks think everyone lives in a...
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Walaby wrote:
He asked for ventilators, but had a bunch in stock. Maybe not enough for worse case at the time, but MY memory was he was "screaming" for them, yet had some in stock. Hmmmm....
At the time, the medical consensus was that ventilators were going to be key to keeping people alive, the time to ask for durable equipment like ventilators is *before* you need them, if they got the expected crush of patients that needed ventilators and they ran out of stock, then it's too late to ask for more. The same for the hospital ship that NYC was sure they needed - the fact that they didn't need those extra beds is a sign of success, not failure.
Even today, doctors are puzzled how COVID patients can have dangerously low pulse-ox levels without even knowing they have COVID and some COVID patients have survived unscathed after experiencing pulse-ox levels that were previously believed to be "incompatible with life".
There are always lots of mysteries with a novel new illness, and it will take years to understand COVID and how to best treat it, but "we need ventilators for a serious respiratory illness" wasn't a controversial first reaction.
