Couple things about that analogy, first Tesla spends next to nothing in advertising. They put information to the market and internet and the champions become free advertising. Also, cars are meant to be intuitive and do not need a high learning curve like Cisco systems where you need to have certifications to run any…

I think supercapacitors would be a great range-extending and battery saving addition to the electrical circuit, but I don’t think the added cost and weight would ever make faster charging worth it - battery tech is getting to the point that wouldn’t matter.  Even with a buck transformer the voltage on caps are linear…

Recommendations are all solid, but a last ditch attempt that divers use on goggles is to spit in them and coat, seriously!

All points confirmed. My brother lives in downtown Taos a few blocks from the plaza. It is definitely island mentality where you are on your own. God help you if the one road out of town goes down for some reason.

It’s so variable, there is no rhyme or reason. We have dealt with entire families, father and adult son both in critical condition and at least one passing. Others barely a cough. The Type O thing doesn’t have much science behind it, I am thinking it’s mostly a myth. Around 40% of the population has Type O, and the…

I don’t honestly know the more recent statistics, but they have been improving greatly since the early days. We have been learning a lot in practice, including doing more interventions before intubation to prevent it in the first place and only resorting to a ventilator if at a definitely last resort. The use of…

I again say you have no idea what it takes to care for patients, how the disciplines are designed, or how any of this works besides some armchair logic. For one, nurses vary widely in skillset, ICU nurses specifically amount to just under 10% of all trained nurses and are the only ones trained in such care for…

I feel you have no concept of the medical field and what actually goes on in the hospital with your “efficiency” claims. Yes, triage was instituted in some locations and you are using that term correctly. It’s basically a number system of 1-4 of who lives and who dies, and exactly the last thing to ever do unless…

I agree with your plan, but I fear if the last decade has taught us anything is unintended consequences. This sort of plan not targeting ICE new car pricing and putting strain on the daily drive and maintenance is going to unfairly target the lower classes of society.

Math vs reaction times on any road in the US with freeways 70mph and even going 10 over and you pass people like they are standing still.

I know exactly where you mean. Heading from Lansing to Detroit the average speed increases about 1mph per town.

If you think doctors are the ones that ultimately care for you then you are sorely mistaken. Put 4 chiefs in a room with no workers and you are going to have a bad day fast. In the ICU it takes a team of dozens to care for a critically ill person, not to mention labs, x-rays, monitors, supplies (so many supplies), and…

I don’t know anything that would work long-term losing money. You can subsidize it somehow, like a government funded for the people universal system or have an endowment (would take billions at each institution to have an endowment), but you cannot lose money.

These bills are more routine than you realize. Look up average stay rate in ICU’s, and depending on level of care (Oxygen, ventilator, sedation, lines, ports, X-rays, 24-7 care 1-on-1 or 2 max nursing, medical team, respiratory therapist, environmental, maintenance crew, the list goes on) minimum is thousands per day.

Please, and I say this in all earnestness, never run for office.

I don’t think they could get anything passed in Congress, and any lame duck Executive orders can be easily overturned in the first 90 days of the new Presidents office as far as I know (I am not a political scholar).

Look deeper and you can see they already are. Elderly care facilities created entire wards for COVID-related illness and unwritten agreements were struck to not send these patients to the hospital ER as they should have due to occupancy issues. We let thousands die at the hands of COVID as they rushed through these…

There simply are no cures for viruses, please enlighten me if you know of any because it would be glorious. There is prevention (vaccines, social distancing measures, cleanliness) and adjuncts that may reduce some symptoms (Tamiflu for the flu), but there is no cure.

Knee-jerk reactions when hearing numbers and not realizing few of these dollars are being paid by anyone. Still waiting for the government to reimburse the hospitals around here, and I don’t think it’s coming.

Sadly very true. Work in the PICU and we hear of these bills all too often. You reach your maximum (if you have insurance) and insurance pays some, but never all. It is really an added stress you don’t need when you are fighting to keep your little nugget alive and thrive.