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PPE isn't perfect or a magical panacea. Ask Craig Spencer, the NY ER doc who worked with Ebola in Africa, how he got it despite being careful.

• logicchains 6y ago
  >PPE isn't perfect or a magical panacea. Maybe if we invested a trillion dollars (which is an absurd amount of money) into developing and improving it, it would be.
  • jandrese 6y ago
    The lag time between that much money turning into a country-size amount of equipment that can be used by ordinary people without error might well be longer than the quarantine period. I've seen some manufacturing miracles, but that's a really tall order.
    • Balgair 6y ago
      > that can be used by ordinary people without error Social media has been great for airline oxygen mask designers as it has shown the failure rates of real world emergencies. I imagine that even with highly trained people like medical staff, the problems of proper PPE usage are just so much worse. People have a really hard time understanding things clearly. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/18/passengers-fail-to-wear-oxygen-masks-properly-aboard-southwest-flight.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/18/passengers-fail-to-wear-oxyg...