Covid Just Killed The Last Person Living In An Iron Lung : coronavirus

[+] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 57 points 10 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] snooggums@midwest.social 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Covid is natural, and to be honest so is stupidity.

It is a shame that he was exposed by someone who wasn't careful enough.

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

I was in the ER 2 weeks ago and all the staff there think masks are chin guards. When you call them out on it they get angry and put the mask halfway on for about 2 minutes, then resumed their normal stupidity and think they are paper chin guards again.

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Bear attacks are also natural, but you don't say "natural causes" when Erica gets her face eaten off by a bear.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Water is natural, but we still say they drowned, and not "natural causes".

[–] snooggums@midwest.social -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I would.

[–] Player2@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully you don't work in statistical analysis then

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago

I bearly understand statistics.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 0 points 10 months ago

If you consider wet markets natural. These animals viruses (bird flu, swine flu, COVID etc) all come from either trench warfare, or animals housed in essentially trench warfare (wet markets, factory farming).

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 51 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The last person so far. We might get to see polio rise again because of the antivaxers

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago

doomjak

[–] Izzgo@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think they would use a ventilator now, no?

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, only iron lungs

[–] Steak@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I want mine to be a golden lung please.

[–] FrostyTrichs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

If we don't die to drone wars first.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why was someone still living in an iron lung for that long? Was there really no way to build this person a portable assisted breathing contraption so he/she could have a life? Seems unnecessarily cruel in this day and age.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago

He was able to move about without it via “frog breathing,” but needed the iron lung to sleep.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Read in an article that he chose to keep using it as he was so used to it

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

How Iron ic.

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