48 points ·
43 minutes ago
Honestly, I wish Elon would STFU about things he's not actually knowledgeable about. Especially when supporting stupid *sugar* like this is going to get thousands of people killed.
The other day he posted a tweet that
insinuated that doctors were intubating people who didn't need to be intubated for money. As a doctor taking care of COVID19 patients that was honestly the most insulting bullshit conspiracy trash I've ever read. As if I would really doom my patients to an 80%+ mortality rate just so the hospital's balance sheet looks nicer. The reason the mortality rate is so high for intubated patients is because they're SICK AS *sugar* AND CAN'T BREATHE Elon, not because we're in some insane conspiracy to intubate everyone needlessly.
It's honestly so infuriating reading this *sugar* that I almost want to cancel my Cybertruck order because I don't want to support his COVID19 stupidity. No we shouldn't just open everything up, and no, we're not intubating people in some conspiracy to make our hospital money. Not mention that this conspiracy is stupid as **** when most hospitals are losing money on COVID19 because it's the elective surgeries that make money, not intubating people for weeks at a time in the ICU while paying tons of staff endless overtime to work as ICU nurses and physicians. This is literally the stupidest conspiracy theory I've ever heard, hospitals would make FAR more money when the economy is opened back up and they can do endless elective surgeries that bill the OR at thousands per hour.
I know a ton of doctors that drive Teslas and his stupid ass COVID19 tweets are not going to go over well with them when they're spending their days dealing with these super sick patients while he's tweeting stupid *sugar* that's going to get people killed.