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But to be clear even at the time people who understood both ventilators AND manufacturing were raising serious misgivings. /7
MakeUK boss @Makeuk_Sphipson told Today we'd be better making existing stuff under license.
@PenlonGlobal head of products says it is "unrealistic" to make from scratch/8
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The boss of GTech, a Worcester garden appliance thought it was 'hoax'. /9
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The 'intended purpose' is that these vents should work for a 'few hours' and 'in extremis' 24 /10
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Which begs a question. WHO was the customer?
Not the docs. Not the regulator. Not the patients.
The only answer that fits, is the Government. The politicians. EESH/15
What this speaks to is the deeply worrying tendency of this crop of politicians to think they know best.
The 'cut-the-crap' 'how-hard-can-it-be?' attitudes that leads to headless decision making. It's embarrassing. /19
Expert people TEARING their hair out at the willful numbskullery of the people at the top. /20
My inbox is full of people who daren't speak on record but are SEETHING at the way they were treated.
People who worked 20-hour days for weeks; gave freely of their time, energy and spirit for nothing. /21
It's parts mustn't catch fire in a high-oxygen environment.
It's software must anticipate a patients breathing. If it freezes, you may die. /23
The government said 'the clinical understanding of the disease changed' but that is a RED HERRING.
It did, but the science was NEVER in a place where it wanted 'bag-in-a-box' ventilators. /24
The government needs to show some HUMILITY. It needs to LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO KNOW STUFF. I think this is a clear example of where it did not. ENDS
Good weekend all.