Forgive me if this is a cold question; I genuinely want to understand the answer. Isn't a 90% death rate of coronavirus patients on ventilators somewhat in tension with the message that we have to do everything in our power to flatten the curve so we don't run out of ventilators?
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If you don't accept the ventilator reducing suffering as people die as an end of itself, there's also that if there are enough ventilators, there's no need to triage who gets a ventilator which maximises the ventilator recovery rate.
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Does it reduce suffering over palliative measures? The procedure seems quite horrible.
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If I may butt in: isn’t being not well after coming off a ventilator better than not having a ventilator to come off and being dead for want thereof? Having been categorised as “vulnerable” by the NHS, I don’t want them to be in the position of having to choose. Unwell’s better.
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I think any sane person would choose the world where there's a billion ventilators and everyone gets one if they need it. The problem is that these are trade-offs, not absolutes. I'm asking if the trade-off is not being misrepresented.
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