And it turns out that the worst thing you can do for someone with covid is put them on a ventilator. Around 80% of those who have been ventilated have died.
Keeping them conscious with an oxygen mask provides the best treatment.
Is that not an example of a) Stupid use of statisitics, b) a "self fulfilling" prophesy ??
If you are that ill that you cannot breathe for yourself, which is why someone is put on a ventilator, the chances of survival are slim in any case, as without the ventilator you will not breathe and you will die. The fact that 20% of those who cannot breathe recover when ventilated is a SUCCESS .. not some failure.
If you cannot breathe for yourself an oxygen mask will achieve the square root of opps-all.... you will die
Very similar misguided use of "data" is presently being forced down our throats regarding nursing homes ...
Known facts -
1) This virus attacks the old and the vulnerable in great numbers .. 91% of the fatalities are aged over 60
2) The population of nursing/care homes is mainly the old and infirm .. thats why they need nursing and care !
3) Many nursing home residents with underlying conditions have signed "Do Not Resuscitate" orders ... so if they get taken ill they are not taken to hospital but are allowed to pass with dignity.
Taking those simple facts, it is not at all surprising that elderly, infirm folk in nursing/care homes are passing ... but for some reason it is now "The Governments' Fault"
All this "data" seems to have robbed the world of the ability to think and use any form of logic whatsoever.