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Project "Iron Auntie" Success! Helping one of the last polio survivors in an iron lung.

Naomi Wu

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Naomi Wu documents her project to fabricate and deliver replacement collar parts for a polio survivor relying on an iron lung.

More about Martha "Iron Auntie" Lillard and her Iron lung: gizmodo.com/the-last-of-the-iron-lungs-1819079169 soundcloud.com/its-julia/final-juliascott-ironlung nbcnews.com/healthmain/60-years-iron-lung-us-polio-survivor-… thetimes.co.uk/article/woman-martha-lillard-in-failing-iron-… Animation courtesy Gizmodo.com, G/O Media Inc. © 2019 I can do projects like this thanks to your support. Sponsor me, get early access to my videos, exclusive access to my Vlogs, and support my work (but only if you can without hardship because I'm going to spend it all on beer and women)😘: ►SubscribeStar: subscribestar.com/naomi-wu ►Tipeee: en.tipeee.com/naomiwu ►YouTube: youtube.com/c/SexyCyborg/join More from me🤔: ►Instagram: instagram.com/ReallySexyCyborg/ ►Facebook: facebook.com/reallysexycyborg ►Twitter: twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg ►YouTube: youtube.com/c/SexyCyborg/ ►My FAQ: pastebin.com/V3474kYs ►Merch: teespring.com/stores/naomi-wus-store ►3D Model: bit.ly/2JUdUjZ ►Wish List: a.co/bMHtZWf NaomiWu on metafilter.com is me.

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What people say. Linked to show how a maker successfully fabricated critical replacement parts for one of the last remaining iron lung users.

zuppyin Hacker News • Recommends

On “I Am Deleting the Blog”

Wow, i’ve read all her 3 long blog posts about what happened and it angers me so much. I knew Vice was shit, but I had higher expectations from NY Times, Google or Twitter. Here are the other parts: - part 2: link - part 3: link There was a positive outcome too, though, check out this video where she helps save someone’s life (SFW): link to this video
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themaninthedarkin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung”

Twitter is a shifty way to present information and to talk.I looked around and found out that she sent some collars in 2019. She also made a YouTube video of what she was doing at the time link to this video the video shows up if you search 'Martha Iron Lung' so it's not like it is hidden... A 2017 Wired article link states that Naomi was spearheading the effort then.
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junonin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung”

And the Wired article is the first result on Google for "martha iron lung parts". Even more, Martha herself commented on her video: link to this video
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aeyesin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung”

> And the collars didn’t necessarily work either. They were shipped, not installed/tested. Are you sure about that? Look at the pinned comment on the original video from 2 years ago: link to this video
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SexyCyborgin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube”

…l never be the focus as a consequence. There's a line between "never be the focus" and "we will erase you". This sort of thing is constant- but I'll give you a recent example- NPR recently ran this story: link About an American lady who needed some parts for her iron lung and how no one would help her. Only the thing is, they knew I already had: link to this video I'd fabricated the collars in Shenzhen, mailed the first batch, revised them and needed someone on the US side to to the final fitting. Martha told them this, a quick search told them this, hundreds of people told them this- did NPR revise the story to correct the omission of "oh by the way this problem we were talking about was solved by t…
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