From a young age, people in China are not conditioned to help others. Apathy is now a deeply ingrained aspect of Chinese culture. https://t.co/0t5qV5rggm
#China's nursing homes: where elderly are treated like trash. A staff member is brutally beating an elderly man, and the screams of the victim are ignored. This is what happens when the Chinese population views the elderly as a burden.1/2 @zhangtruth1@yuceltanay53@SolomonYuepic.twitter.com/W60kZSZrF4
#China, where chaos reigns supreme! As we watch men brawl outside a restaurant, the owner calmly adjusts her seats, unfazed by the commotion. In classic China, societal norms seem more like suggestions than rules.@HKokbore@Ghost0hnsn@zhangtruth1pic.twitter.com/g9QvGdk5Ba
— Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferzeng97) June 17, 2024
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#China, where the streets are paved with shame. A woman's fighting off a pants-less 'man' on the road, and the nearby policeman & 9 other guys just stood there, watching like it's a show.
China’s worst societal problem is that no one will help anyone in need, this is a direct result of bad governance by the CCP as people in Taiwan who come from the same culture and language readily help those in need and are incredibly compassionate. CCP hollowed out compassion https://t.co/iSgYHXgKhw
Tell me you have no idea what you’re talking about without telling me you have no idea what you’re talking about. (This ignoramus seems to think that ICU doctors don’t consider potential harms from high O2 and PEEP in ventilated patients, and only geniuses like himself do.🤦🏻♂️) https://t.co/HheKGZOif2
The Elon fanbois are missing the point: Elon has never treated a patient with C19. He has never used a ventilator. He understands nothing about respiratory physiology.
So for him to pontificate (wrongly) about ventilation during a pandemic is arrogant and stupid.
— Alastair McAlpine, MD (@AlastairMcA30) June 17, 2024
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The title of Elon’s latest book, “It’s CPR that kills people, not the respiratory and/or cardiac arrest that precedes CPR”.
What’s the mortality rate of individuals who require CPR, but don’t receive CPR? pic.twitter.com/ctgxWLPlBI
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC 🐈🐱🐈⬛ (@dr_jon_l) June 17, 2024
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I tried telling people this!
When I talked to doctors in Wuhan after the first wave hit China, their top recommendation was to avoid using intubated ventilators for extended periods at 100% O2, as it damages the lungs. https://t.co/ZA1NrOHcU9.
The notion that doctors intubated a bunch of patients who didn’t need it, and caused catastrophic death is: (a) Insulting (we don’t do this gig to kill people) (b) Silly (We don’t intubate people who don’t need it) (c) Ignorant (if someone doesn’t need a vent- we take them off!)
— Alastair McAlpine, MD (@AlastairMcA30) June 17, 2024
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Hi @elonmusk, ventilators did not kill the patients. Your anecdotes from doctors do not inform this question – actual evidence like this meta-analysis that showed a trend to benefit form early intubation is much more helpful:https://t.co/1SDHGMt5Yxhttps://t.co/SkyWSy5adV
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC 🐈🐱🐈⬛ (@dr_jon_l) June 17, 2024
I would also like to note that "intubated ventilators" is nonsensical – you intubate the patient (i.e. stick the endotracheal tube down the airways) and then you connect the ventilator to the endotracheal tube. You do not stick the endotracheal tube into the ventilator
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC 🐈🐱🐈⬛ (@dr_jon_l) June 17, 2024
Once we are considering intubating a patient – they are already dying. There is close to a 100% chance they will die with ventilator support. Ventilators give us time to treat the underlying condition.
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC 🐈🐱🐈⬛ (@dr_jon_l) June 17, 2024