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>It's irresponsible for non-medical researchers to not only pursue, but also disseminate, these jailbreaks.

The reason for the underbelly trend of certain types of people to not trust doctors and scientists is a lack of trust in the system (medical system, science system, etc). The root of this for some people can be tied to this exact condescending attitude towards people.

Nobody responds to being told something is a bad idea, they only respond to understanding why it could be a bad idea and being allowed to decide for themselves, and your attempt at preventing them from deciding in a way you don't like how they treat their own body only furthers the rift that powers essential oil huns.

Me personally, If my local hospitals are out of ventilators and i'm showing signs of URD i'm gonna hack my autoset with this firmware to get the higher pressures needed for peep therapy and not bother going in. There isn't anything you can do to stop me. I might even do it even if they aren't out, as i would be able to start therapy sooner and potentially heed off snowball effects from a lower blood oxygen level on my immune system.

Attitudes like yours create, feed, and recruit anti-vaxxers and essential oil huns, and harm that does, is far greater than somebody hacking their own cpap machine for whatever ends.




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