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@luckytran People who make that argument will also refuse to desinfect surfaces ,wear gloves or even wash their hands before performing surgery on someone...

Seriously, the fact that the non-enforcement of basic quarantine and pandemic rules and codes of conduct are used as arguments against these is just shocking!

@luckytran In my #doctor's large practice, the Pine Island location of #AssociatesMD in #Plantation, #Florida, of the two dozen or so #medical staff I saw on Monday, only two were masked (including my doctor).

It's #malpractice for any medical professional to be unmasked while interacting with the public in any capacity indoors.

Cases are rising again, and globally. It's not over.

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Whatever happened to the Hippocratic oath?

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We truly are living in an alternate timeline where this simple to understand, extremely logical thing to do...somehow is not being applied by apparently intelligent and capable people for reasons that still elude me in part, though i do have theories...and they involve relentlessly individualistic and selfish behavior, and a collective "carpe diem" mentality that has taken over in large swathes of the population these days.

@luckytran Masking up in hospitals? Oh yeah. Besides ever changing Covid? Other contagious diseases are lurking in hospitals. What’s to lose?

@luckytran I made my order in advance so I could pick it up. I called a ride sharing service. I put on my mask. I wore it in the car both ways, where I sat in the right rear position with the window open a bit. One driver wore a mask. One did not. In the store, one employee wore a mask. Others did not. I kept mine on.

Other than outdoors where I'm certain I'll be alone or at a distance from others e.g., garbage night/collecting my mail from a group mailbox, I always wear a mask wherever I go.

@luckytran just recovering from my first case of Covid (which they say is gone). I was really sick. Thanks CDC etc for the new protocols which don’t work.

@luckytran I recently caught a newer Covid variant and was struggling for nearly a month. It’s certainly not trivial and not to be taken lightly. It absolutely floored me.

@luckytran And they should be protecting their medical workers too.

@luckytran Wear one if you want, nobody is stopping you

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"Some hospitals refusing to mask anymore because they claim people are likely to get #COVID elsewhere anyway."

According to this logic, everyone dies eventually, so we shouldn't provide ANY medical care.

@luckytran could you please add alt text to this image? Messages about access to health should be accessible for everyone. Thank you!

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I haven't caught Covid because I wear a good mask and had every jab offered. In the UK I no longer qualify for a booster, at 74 I'm a year too young, so my immunity will fade.

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Doctors' offices, too! I've been to 3 MD practices and a lab in the last 10 days, and nobody wore masks except for 1 other patient & me. None of the medical or clerical staff had masks on. Not one.

@luckytran quite unfortunate that hospitals no longer believe in the germ theory of disease, that used to be one of the nicer achievements of human progress

@luckytran And yet hospitals is where you get a higher concentration of vulnerable and at-risk patients. Even catching a common cold from someone in a crowded waiting room can trigger serious problems in people with #asthma, #cancer, transplant recipients, etc. There must be data out there showing a drop in #nosocomial infections during #mask wearing during mandates?
Not just hospitals, any healthcare setting where vulnerable people and sick people are likely to mix -- including their FP's clinic.
#COVID #IDmastodon #MedMastodon

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What are the up-to-date statistics on masking at hospital's vs infection rate?

@luckytran Surgeons say : "Why wear a mask during an operation ? The patient probably already has an infection anyway"

@luckytran @PeoplesCDC, FYI.

@luckytran if only we had a definition so we'd know what to avoid... Something like "nosocomial infection", something I was taught in nursing school as being absolute anathema.

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As I've said many times over the past few years, I find it absolutely wild that "back in my day" we refused to see a doctor because we expected that no matter what we went for, we would catch something worse in the waiting room.

Yet after a global pandemic and so many experts showing us that there is a better way which has worked fine in densely populated countries, we still haven't learned a damn thing.

No matter what level of masking you use elsewhere, keep them in medical care!

@ned @luckytran we lost a family member a few years ago from complications from a hospital-acquired superbug. They'd originally been admitted for a broken knee.