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.
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.
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.
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."
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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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.