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So essentially a CPAP machine.
CPAPs i believe have been ruled out as they vent exhalations indiscriminately, spreading the virus throughout the space.
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Yes. This. Incredibly desperate times here.
If it's that desperate force companies to make them. Don't pin your hopes and dreams on a fantasy that you can build a large-scale medical device in two weeks .
How can you expect that if they're at max capacity? I guess the government could throw major bucks at it.
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CPAPs i believe have been ruled out as they vent exhalations indiscriminately, spreading the virus throughout the space.
that doesn't sound like a terribly hard problem to solve.
Or at least useful in limited situations, e.g. at-home care where the carer has already been infected. Situations like that might not be common now, but give it a few months.
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No, they shouldn't because an 80% effective ventilator might kill someone when a company that knows how to make ventilators could just produce a 100% effective one.
And if they can't make enough, waiting for a ventilator that never comes will 100% kill someone
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I've had a refurb V7 for a couple of years now, and never had any of your problems. Maybe the DC59 suffers from V1 types of problems? I chose the V7 because it was the cheapest / oldest model with the new ejection mechanism.
It could be, or maybe we just had bad luck too. I don't think the design of the motorised head was good at all, since as I said I found hair and dust got through the cracks into the housing and I needed star shaped screwdrivers to get in there and clean it. And the main body has a flimsy flap that opens/closes with airflow, but it gets stuck very easily with our dust situation. So I have to pick at it down the tube (…
Interesting. I have had my V10 for about 16 months and, short-battery life aside, it has been flawless. I also have a bagged Miele and the Dyson vacuums circles around it, extracting far more dirt from carpeting. Night and day difference. I will say the general build quality of the Miele seems superior in the classic sense but I think I'd have to use it 5X as much as the Dyson for the same results.
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#76Anyone seen any info on the Dyson AirBlades used for hand-drying in public restrooms? They are very effective at drying , but flick a lot of water up and onto the unit. I guess if everyone has properly washed their hands the WHO way, the rinse water should be safe, but I'm still wondering whether you are risking getting virus from the previous possibly infected person who also doesn't know the words to Happy Birthday…
I hate those god-awful AirBlade dryers. I have long fingers and it is almost impossible to dry my hands without that disgusting pool of water flicking up onto the tips of my fingers. Curl your fingers you say? Not possible due to how narrow the gap is without almost always making contact with the sides of the unit. Terrible machines.
Terrible machines before the pandemic; an order of magnitude more terrible during it.
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#77Lol... just copycat the fastest and cheapest approved model for the high numbers you need? Dyson doing a Dyson is soooo smug or exceptionalist again. Sigh
To be fair, a lot of these companies trying to switch manufacturing to help with the COVID-19 epidemic are hamstrung by the same intellectual and copyright laws they normally would.
The only two sane approaches would be that copyright owners provide temporary, free licenses to other manufacturers (heck, even make the government pay a royalty for each unit) or the government to force the companies to provide the designs.
Neither option would be favored by either UK or US right now, because the cult of free enterprise is more important than human loss.
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I hate those god-awful AirBlade dryers. I have long fingers and it is almost impossible to dry my hands without that disgusting pool of water flicking up onto the tips of my fingers. Curl your fingers you say? Not possible due to how narrow the gap is without almost always making contact with the sides of the unit. Terrible machines.
They have an alternative version that solves this issue. I'm not sure if this is a successor or alt product though. https://www.dyson.com.au/hand-dryers/airblade-v.aspx
Still looks like a great way to aerosolize the content of people's insufficiently washed hands. Yeesh.
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Was not a fan until I bought their V10 vac. It is quite amazing at cleaning, performing much (much) better than any other vac I have ever owned although with the downside of an insufficient battery.
Their products are also built like a tank. I've gotten 20 years of use out of their original upright vacuum model so far.
idk about the newer designs. I'm using a roughly 8 year old DC39 and it has been to the repair center multiple times for replacement motors and other parts. The plastic attachments are failing now so I'm not sure how much longer this vac will last.
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No, they shouldn't because an 80% effective ventilator might kill someone when a company that knows how to make ventilators could just produce a 100% effective one.
And if they can't make enough, waiting for a ventilator that never comes will 100% kill someone
That doesn't necessarily follow.
I assume the term "need a ventilator" does not mean they have 100% chance of dying without a ventilator. Very few things in life are 100% certain. I imagine its more like, you have a 90% chance of dying without this, and a 10% chance of living (Numbers totally made up).
Its also not the case that a faulty ventilator might be worth 80% of a real ventilator. It may very well be 0%, it might be -20%. If the ventilator is worthless, well there are some strong ethical conundrums of selling worthless cures to desperate people who will pay anything for the slightest hope of surviving. But that's if its worthless, its entirely imaginable that a faulty one reduces patients chances relative to no ventilator. Doing nothing and letting the body do its best, might have better outcomes then doing some sort of medical intervention incorrectly.