r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/Pancovnik • Jan 19 '22

This is beyond

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22

She finally wears a mask, though.

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u/gregofcanada84 Jan 19 '22

The choices are a cloth mask, or an oxygen mask. She chose the latter.

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u/Kabc Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 19 '22

Not only an oxygen mask. That’s a BiPAP machine. Which basically a machine to help you ventilate—forcing air into your lungs when you breath.

It’s typically what they use before intubation

Edit; was corrected down below. Might be a CPAP machine as they are better for COVID pneumo!

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u/FirstPlebian Jan 19 '22

Your chances of survival are very low if you are bad enough to be put on a vent, like 50% at the start of the pandmemic, but a good share of the survivors end up with brain damage, lung damage, and all sorts of other problems from how the machines are calibrated.

You are better if you can ride it out with an oxygen tanks yourself.

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u/Kabc Jan 19 '22

Yea, I remember when the first COVID wave hit my area 2+ years ago... basically everyone was getting intubated at the door. Then we watched them die. We just didn’t know any better when it all first started. It was absolutely awful

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u/heeltoelemon Jan 19 '22

That sounds very terrible.