Yep, I remember in the beginning, part of the argument was that intubation allowed them to not have the 'germ infested' air exhaled through the room so it was deemed safer for staff and other patients and that was part of the argument for skipping the usual intermediate steps of supplemental oxygen. Probably staff in fear of getting killed themselves were reluctant to argue at first. If covid were really the deadly ebola type death sentence it was marketed as, then such decisions might have made a tad more sense but that should have been quickly found to be wrong very soon. Doctors should have known this was the wrong thing to do as well. I am not sure all hospitals went this route though, but it's scary to think of how many doctors killed people using the vents when they should have known better.

And now are still doing it with remdesivir. Docs were eventually able to spread the word around about the danger of the vents though, probably exactly because some docs knew how to properly treat clogged lungs. However few docs have experience with remdesivir and the way it kills can be mistaken for the way covid kills so it's going to be less easy to expose. Remdesivir is pure evil genius for killing more people, push a treatment that no one knows about that kills people in ways that can be blamed on the illness it is supposedly treating.