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@josh

At least give people the choice whether they want to be exposed or not.

Why is there not a single section in trains for people who do not want to breathe in other people's air?

Why are workplaces forcing people back into the office without mitigations in place?

Why are children forced inside poorly ventilated classrooms?

@ABScientist @josh say that to the people at the DMV who want you to come in and take your mask off for a picture in the building full of people with almost no ventilation.

@TransitBiker @ABScientist @josh Social pressure at work or school is another thing. So many Astlochs in Germany told me to “take down the mask, the pandemic is over”. A climbing gym in Berlin even tried to deny me service. People have become stoopid as f…

@canleaf @ABScientist @josh do you know who is still wearing proper respiratory protection? Eye doctors, dentists, internal medicine specialists, Aerosol science experts. I know many other medical professionals are still traumatized over this pandemic, and what they have seen and gone through especially back in 2020. It scares me to see so many of them without a mask, especially in hospitals.

@TransitBiker @canleaf @ABScientist @josh I wish this were the case but it is not. Most of my medical care professionals aren’t masking anymore. I had to go for an endoscopy, and I asked my attending medical workers to please wear masks as I am high risk. They refused. I finally caught COVID for the first time in October at a dentist appointment. My dentist wasn’t wearing a mask until I asked him to. At my last dentist appointment, I realized halfway through a filling that the dental assistant was sick. She was only wearing one of those crappy surgical masks. I really hope I don’t catch whatever she had. She had a cough and sniffles. Even a common cold sometimes ends me up in the hospital. I hate that I have to put my life at risk in order to obtain medical care.

@ahltorp @TransitBiker @canleaf @ABScientist @josh how can I better prepare to enter a medical facility where there are infected people and I am unable to wear a mask for the medical treatment I require? I’m fully vaccinated, use an antiviral spray in my nose, and propolis spray in my throat. I also do my best to be the first appointment of the day, which minimizes my exposure. But that’s all I know how to do.

@Shanmonster @TransitBiker @canleaf @ABScientist @josh By “prepared”, I mean prepared as a society, by actually having properly functioning healthcare for all that isn’t dependent on underpaid, overworked staff that have to play a game of 17 puzzle to make everything work. Prepared for the next crisis.

@ABScientist @Shanmonster @TransitBiker @canleaf @josh Are you saying that all medical professionals now have to wear the highest grade masks forever, regardless of the additional strain, and regardless if it’s scientifically motivated or not? That being physically restrained from breathing is permanently on the level of hand washing?

This in a world where we cannot stop people from polluting because that would “limit their personal choice”.

@ahltorp @ABScientist @Shanmonster @canleaf @josh the role of any medical professional is to protect the patient. That is the very first step and rule of medicine. If you can’t protect yourself from getting infected, then you aren’t protecting your patients either.

@TransitBiker @ahltorp @Shanmonster @canleaf @josh

Until we no longer let het virus run rampant in the population, we need to protect patients (who are by definition vulnerable) against the virus. Patients can not always wear a good quality mask themselves and therefore staff should wear a mask.

We had our chance in 2020 to eliminate this virus. We did not want to hurt the economy. And now we are stuck with it. The alternative is killing patients.