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.
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.
In this part of Texas the local hospital doesn't have anything similar to NM's signage. It's like the scam never happened. At a big box store you might see a single person muzzled, but then again you probably won't. Good thing, because to this day I can't look at a picture of someone wearing a muzzle without the exact same instant horror and revulsion I feel when I see a spider.
One of the reasons I have so much anger and scorn now for "medical professionals" is because they were such enthusiastic adopters of the humiliation ritual. They're either too ignorant, too slavish, or too sadistic to acknowledge why masks are used in medical settings, like during surgeries. It's not to prevent viral infections and it's not for the patient's benefit. If that were true, medical examiners doing autopsies wouldn't mask. Surgeons and MEs wear PPE for their own protection from blood, fluids, bone chips, and even worse things. At least one study pinpointed shed skin cells as a major source of the bacteria that's introduced into wounds during operations, and suggested, not entirely facetiously, that surgeons operate naked. But preventing intra-operative bacterial infections is why they give people prophylactic antibiotics.
Just as damaging to my respect for medical workers is the fact that those who gladly enforced and adopted muzzling are the exact same people who have always plodded through parking garages and public sidewalks in their ill-fitting, unhemmed scrub pants and then worn those same clothes--and same street shoes--into patient treatment areas and thought nothing of it. And they still do it.
Furthermore...the dangers of not wearing a seatbelt if an accident occurs are far less than if you "get Covid." If getting Covid resulted in broken bones and internal bleeding, then we would have something to talk about.
Also the danger of getting into an accident is more of an equal danger regardless of the human in the car getting in the accident. Whereas with a cold or flu, it is taking out those already with chronic conditions/elderly.
Oh! It's your shoulder! (I am coming in late) - is it your mouse hand shoulder? - (I have long sorta guessed you are a leftie) - how precise is your attention to computer ergonomics? - Do you have any idea what a torture trap (for shoulders) the standard mouse is? - Take a look at this alternative > https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/dxt-wireless-mouse2/ - That company - Kinesis - looks to be leader in ergo- adaptive mice / keyboards. That's part of what I do in my day job - configure adaptive computing; - I got a vertical mouse for a young woman with skeletal challenges - she loves it - adapted to it immediately.
It's always going to be tough prediction to make - you look left handed! (It's a compliment).
And whatever works for you; still it can be extremely difficult in the medium term even to know what isn't working. "neutral" is a good thing in ergonomics - a vertical mouse promotes that and I don't think the wrist/elbow/shoulder demands of a trackpad would vary much from mouse demands.
That said, I found the vertical mouse extremely "unnatural" which makes the response of my special skeletal needs colleague all the more curious; she walked in the first morning it was there - had never seen one - began to use it immediately and has never touched a standard mouse again (at work, at least) - she also has a keyboard designed to float almost over the desk surface rather than be fixed in one position.
Hope your shoulder feels better soon - but it will take time. I thought I was going to go the rest of the way with a sore knee - but four full years later I am rather suddenly celebrating a not sore knee - walking down stairs pain free again, even.
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.
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.
They should lie and say "No."
In this part of Texas the local hospital doesn't have anything similar to NM's signage. It's like the scam never happened. At a big box store you might see a single person muzzled, but then again you probably won't. Good thing, because to this day I can't look at a picture of someone wearing a muzzle without the exact same instant horror and revulsion I feel when I see a spider.
One of the reasons I have so much anger and scorn now for "medical professionals" is because they were such enthusiastic adopters of the humiliation ritual. They're either too ignorant, too slavish, or too sadistic to acknowledge why masks are used in medical settings, like during surgeries. It's not to prevent viral infections and it's not for the patient's benefit. If that were true, medical examiners doing autopsies wouldn't mask. Surgeons and MEs wear PPE for their own protection from blood, fluids, bone chips, and even worse things. At least one study pinpointed shed skin cells as a major source of the bacteria that's introduced into wounds during operations, and suggested, not entirely facetiously, that surgeons operate naked. But preventing intra-operative bacterial infections is why they give people prophylactic antibiotics.
Just as damaging to my respect for medical workers is the fact that those who gladly enforced and adopted muzzling are the exact same people who have always plodded through parking garages and public sidewalks in their ill-fitting, unhemmed scrub pants and then worn those same clothes--and same street shoes--into patient treatment areas and thought nothing of it. And they still do it.
Furthermore...the dangers of not wearing a seatbelt if an accident occurs are far less than if you "get Covid." If getting Covid resulted in broken bones and internal bleeding, then we would have something to talk about.
Also the danger of getting into an accident is more of an equal danger regardless of the human in the car getting in the accident. Whereas with a cold or flu, it is taking out those already with chronic conditions/elderly.
No one disputes that car accidents carry risk
The risks of "COVID-19" are disputed.
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Oh! It's your shoulder! (I am coming in late) - is it your mouse hand shoulder? - (I have long sorta guessed you are a leftie) - how precise is your attention to computer ergonomics? - Do you have any idea what a torture trap (for shoulders) the standard mouse is? - Take a look at this alternative > https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/dxt-wireless-mouse2/ - That company - Kinesis - looks to be leader in ergo- adaptive mice / keyboards. That's part of what I do in my day job - configure adaptive computing; - I got a vertical mouse for a young woman with skeletal challenges - she loves it - adapted to it immediately.
I am right-handed and the injury (torn rotator cuff) is not related to computer use. Thought it was a pinched nerve but it's not.
I don't use a mouse; I have a MacBook Pro w/a trackpad.
It's always going to be tough prediction to make - you look left handed! (It's a compliment).
And whatever works for you; still it can be extremely difficult in the medium term even to know what isn't working. "neutral" is a good thing in ergonomics - a vertical mouse promotes that and I don't think the wrist/elbow/shoulder demands of a trackpad would vary much from mouse demands.
That said, I found the vertical mouse extremely "unnatural" which makes the response of my special skeletal needs colleague all the more curious; she walked in the first morning it was there - had never seen one - began to use it immediately and has never touched a standard mouse again (at work, at least) - she also has a keyboard designed to float almost over the desk surface rather than be fixed in one position.
Hope your shoulder feels better soon - but it will take time. I thought I was going to go the rest of the way with a sore knee - but four full years later I am rather suddenly celebrating a not sore knee - walking down stairs pain free again, even.
Songs decrying mask-wearing and the mindset behind it.
A duet between a mask-wearing zealot and a medical freedom fighter. Listen to IT’S JUST A MASK. Subscribe to Turfseer’s Newsletter. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/its-just-a-mask
Watch O HOLY ROMAN, a song about a child who asserts his independence from other children who wear the mask https://turfseer.substack.com/p/o-holy-roman
Watch POD PEOPLE BARBECUE. Origin of mask-wearing zombies revealed in song!
https://turfseer.substack.com/p/pod-people-barbecue
The people graduate “with honors” from this institution of “higher learning.” Watch SHEEPLE UNIVERSITY. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/sheeple-university