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xkry's avatar

At a hospital visit last year [not in the Chicago area, more east coast] there were signs everywhere commanding masking, the person I was visiting at hospital had a sign across from their bed that said - to the effect that - "patients could only take their masks off when alone in the room", the check-in and check-out documentation for admittance to the hospital had entire sections on whether one had or last had COVID-19 symptoms, mask policy with respect to said symptoms, vaccination and booster status, date of one's last COVID-19 test, etc. There were even still "six foot social distancing footie stickers" here and there.

All of this was in place but everyone ignored it. The medtechs just skipped over the entire COVID-19 section in the consent/HIPAA forms on hospital admission, everyone (and I mean everyone - patients, staff, and visitors all) ignored the masking orders (except for one person at a visitor's desk and one hospital visitor I saw). Nobody asked about or even mentioned any of this stuff they just ignored it as if it were some relic of a past age.

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

That's a good call on the mask sign. It shows the arbitrary and capricious rules behind masking. They are asking people who are sick to stay away, and yet if you are "well" but have any of the above symptoms, you should mask. I imagine that does a real number of people with asthma and allergies. Should they stay or should they go? Should they mask or unmask? I met a woman once in the foyer of the doctor's office with her mask removed and she explained she had allergies and didn't want to wear it for obvious reasons.

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