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Ok it’s all over the news that they’re trying to build as many ventilators as they can to save lives. In fact if you look at the top of this page a link has been posted. It says the NHS has 8000 ventilators but needs 30,000.

In Holland they created a plug with 3D printers to share a ventilator with 2 patients.
Those machines have a large overcapacity.

Suicide rates will be up , some people are already in a fragile state being isolated and financial hardships are rife , everyone needs to look out for each other and keep in touch maybe a bit more than normal .not knowing the future and some people just getting by on monthly wages now potentially reduced to 80%

An American statesmen quoted yesterday elderly should be let to die to save costs and burden on medical system.

Testing is the key which I thought since Chinese outbreak to get on top of things which now the professions are agreeing , the uk if not prepared to shut down earlier they had months to anticipate an outbreak and stock testing kits which would of been cheaper than a lock down now .2020 is wiped out

It is not a miraculous cure once your hooked up your cured , its a helping hand , depends on your physically condition and immune strength .
the world is set for a re set  if a vaccine is only found a year later 

All the slum areas in 3rd world countries , countries in conflict , developing countries that live in tight compacted areas will wipe out millions if not contained

If this was a weapon of war has more of a deterrent than a nuclear bomb

These countries will struggle to contain, refugees ,migrants still travelling spreading infections
India.
Pakistan
Syria
Brazil
Africa
South americas
Carribean islands

I'm not sure most people are aware quite how serious being put onto a ventilator is and the many complications it involves.  I'm not a medic and my experience is based purely on being in recovery from a punctured lung the end of last year.  Firstly, you can't just jump on and off of a ventilator, you have to be induced into a coma which in itself is not only traumatic for the patient it requires constant monitoring by very highly qualified doctors and nurses specifically trained in Intensive care treatment and is very high risk.  One of the main risks of being on a ventilator is developing pneumonia (I did) and since this virus effects the lungs it reduces the chances of survival massively.  If you are lucky and survive being paralysed from the neck down while in a coma the recovery is long, I've been advised it will take a year to even get anywhere near pre accident health and that my lungs are now permanently damaged.  I was unable to walk, due to muscle wastage, speak and suffered delirium (hallucinations).  I was very lucky that I didn't develop permanent brain damage and my doctors were amazed how fast I regained my full mental capacity. (I'm 100% NOT an imbecile which by the way is a highly offensive term used on this site far too regularly by vile people).  Then comes the almost bi weekly lung x-rays, blood tests and rehabilitation exercises to relearn how to walk & speak.  Then comes having to inject blood thinners into your stomach everyday, this doesn't effect everybody however after you've been 'hooked up' to a ventilator you are high risk of blood clots.  

I'm NOT writing this for pity or likes, far from it, Im a survivor (so far).  I just want to share my experience to alert people of the reality of being put on a ventilator and the long term recovery required.  I used to swim 3 times a week and considered myself reasonably fit for middle age. 

So PLEASE do as required and stay home.  If you don't you are putting the NHS under even more stress that they obviously don't need as well as putting your self your family and others at risk of being put onto a ventilator providing there even is a ventilator available.  Stay safe one & all.
*just to reliterate I am not a medic and this is just my own experience.

xx To You


To be honest I had no idea what being hooked up to a Ventilator was. Never thought about it before.

Sounds bloody awful,


Very glad to hear you're on the mend

xx

Suppose trump has to give some hope to his people , as constant negatives and no cure as yet would cause civil disturbance .

Unfortunately, I think the world has already come to terms with the fact that 60%-80% will most likely catch this thing over the next year. We're simply trying to just curve the peak to ensure moving forward we slow spread, continue to practice social distancing, and reduce the overloading of hospitals and urgent cares. 

If 80% of people are A-Symptomatic there is nothing we can do to stop this thing. It's the sad truth, but isolating for a full year until a vaccine is not possible. Unless by some miracle an existing drug is proven effective, but that is questionable. With the help of anti viral and testing, it will help continue to curve the virus to get us to the point of vaccination. On the downside, most of us will have statistically already contracted it by then, knowingly or unknowingly. Those at highest risk will have tough decisions to make as to how they want to go about their day to day lives and will remain highest priority. 

I give it 4 weeks until US at a breaking point and the economy opens back up with mass testing being front and center until something better comes along. With more testing, the rates of dying will continue to be driven downwards, and we will have better data on how to navigate through it. 

Seriously, no need for this chidish shit

No need for tough guys either all adults present 

Always will be underlying issues, but again testing is key. With 15 minute portable testing, we will be able to reopen borders/travel ect once we have the capacity and production to facilitate. 

You need to be posting up links to support and data for claims like these. I appreciate we’re all in the dark here but this is all wild conjecture.

I have posted a few previously , there is too much data to clog up the forum along with light hearted links from time to time . I am on overdrive to read all research papers I can find and track all foreign news as my 98 year old grandfather had pneumonia in December and has a weaken heart and is still under medical care also have a toddler so have a heightened awareness , so had chosen with family to limit all social activity weeks before government advice as of foreign countries procedures at the time 
most of the previous points I raise are discussed days later in the media