Why are hospitals and clinics still keeping up this sham?
I’m seeing a few people locally still wearing them at the grocery store, my asumption is a compromised immune system.
I’m just saying, if you’re immune system is weakened by nature or prescription medications, wear a mask, I dont blame you.
If you’re a paranoid germ freak F you.
The hospitals and clinics around here still require them. Its pure theater.
My stupid State still requires them for health services.
This comes under the heading of “Paranoid Germ Freak”.
I’m old enough to have survived the measles, the mups, chicken pox and who knows what else.
At some point you have to recognise, we all have different immune systems and unfortunatley not all of us are going to make it.
edit to add:
I had the measles when my Mom was pregnant with my Sister, this explains why She’s a Liberal.
My local clinic has not required them since May, about the same time the airlines did.
We still have people out in public who “wear” a mask, but its under the nose or a chin cover. The only way it makes sense to me is that they are talismans like wearing garlic to protect against vampires.
Yep, our hospitals/medical care places still require masks, but most provide them at the desk where they stop you if you are maskless.
Still need a mask in the Redstone Arsenal FAMC pharmacy. It just adds to the PITA there.
Andy
Its usually out of staters that I see wearing the stupid things.
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Where are you located? here in South Florida, no local area hospital/clinics/urgent care center/physician office/labs require them for the most part. You may find a rare center/office that may require but not really enforced.
Its required and enforced in the Hospital/Clinics I use here in Huntsville/Madison AL. Not my dentist though.
Andy
Not to defend it, but I recently asked one Dr office about why they still required them.
It’s staffing related. Yep, covid is not killing people near as much, but it is more communicable and results in a flu-like outage.
Due to its nature (no symptoms, yet spreading) it can take out most of an office.
So Dr’s, nurses, and patients had to wear them due to close contact in all rooms and dozens of different exposures each day.
Just sharing their answer
Recall seeing several in the last week doing this including at least 1 alone in her car.
There’s probably a lot of federal and/or state tax dollars tied to the requirement (either directly or through Medicare/Medicaid). Once that money has become part of the budget, good luck convincing the board to cut the budget just because you don’t want to wear a mask. That money that you didn’t have three years ago is now “essential.”
Got my flu shot about a month ago and I just walked in, went upstairs and was on my phone doing some emails when I hear “Sir. Sir, SIR. You have to wear a mask”. I ignored them and made them come over to me and repeat it. I just looked at them and shrugged my shoulders. They got me a mask.
They were out of the old people version, and the old biddies in front of me were wondering what to do??? The nurse was a dumb-ass. I offered that they could just give them two standard doses. The nurse thought I was serious, on other lady just starts laughing. If I weren’t wearing a mask, it would have been easier to see that I was pulling her leg.
Because in health care settings there are immunocompromised individuals that will literally die if they get COVID or the flu, and masks in these settings are things that places like Japan have been doing for decades. COVID is the most contagious virus we have seen since measles and ten times more lethal than the flu for high risk groups. Furthermore while COVID might not kill you, as a healthcare worker, it does mean you can’t see patients for between 5 and however many days it takes you to test clear on a rapid antigen test to return to work.
By the way I would recommend continuing to wear masks in highly crowded locations. There are growing studies that are indicating that the rapid rise in RSV and flu this year is being caused by T cell (a component of your immune system) depletion due to repeated COVID infections. This is in addition to studies showing that even mild COVID infections can cause damage to your brain, and issues involving blood coagulation that may lead to stroke or heart attack. We have actually had two strokes in my unit in 30 year olds that had COVID and within three months had a stroke (only one of whom was vaccinated).
EDIT: Just editing to add that we are only just now beginning to understand the link between viruses and other previously thought unconnected conditions. In the past three decades we identified the link between HPV and cancer, HIV and AIDS, HSV and several nervous system disorders, the common flu and Guillain-Barre syndrome. And there are a few more that I need to go grab my notes for. COVID as a novel virus is only just beginning to be fully understood.
How can you say any of that when the box the masks come in says they aren’t effective against viruses? Bacteria, yes, viruses hard no. Serious question.
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Please see the below study related to the capabilities of masks to reduce spread. There have been several repeated studies that have shown that masks reduce the spread by preventing droplets and reducing aerosols. Basically picture it like the comic below. While not completely accurate as that really only applies to properly fit N95s protecting you, both parties wearing masks truly does reduce spread especially when the person sick is wearing the mask.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33087517/
Hospitals and medical building is one thing but here in Oregon I still see people driving down the road by themselves or walking alone wearing masks. Whatever floats their boat as long as they stay out of my face.
All idiots living in fear and capitulating to tyranny.
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Since we are throwing around insults let me counter with apparently the brain damage from COVID has already run its course with you.