She’s a PA as well ... Meaning, we have just gotten so dumb and blind to this. Fear porn, panic porn, whatever you want to call it.
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My doctor is in his mid-30’s and he now wears full hazmat gear when he sees patients. He has a high protection face mask with the one-way breathing valve and wears a completely-around-the-head shield over that. His gloves cover his plastic onesie that rustles when he walks and he has heavy plastic booties that are taped over his plastic pantlegs. I understand that they see people all day who are sick with goodness knows what and he wants to protect his ability to make a living, but that was a surprise.
When he came into the examination room, my eyes got quite wide. He was very happy to be wearing all that gear because I was sitting there without a mask and he proceeded to lecture me about “The CDC says ... hrtmmphd ... trmstmmmp ... safety ... muffled ... muffled ... muffled ... mask”.
I stared at him like I was listening intently and started nodding, but I had tuned him out as soon as I heard “CDC”. It took all my focus to apply just the right amount of tooth pressure on my tongue to prevent me from laughing at the rustling sound he made as he moved around the room. I thought about asking if I could take a photo, but we have a shortage of doctors in my town. I just wanted my first in a series of spring allergy shots and didn’t want to be fired as a patient at this particular time.
He is trying not to spread from one vulnerable patient to another. Probably not to protect himself
Full change in between patients.
***He has a high protection face mask with the one-way breathing valve...
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Isn’t that style now discouraged because even though he is filtered against external stuff, he can still spread what he has?
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/about-face-coverings.html
(have to laugh at the “How not to wear a mask” part of the page...)
“My doctor is in his mid-30’s and he now wears full hazmat gear when he sees patients.”
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That’s the weirdest thing I’ve heard, Linda. Well, no, I take that back, when this first all started, I had to put one of my old cats down and they wanted me to gown up, mask up, glove up.
I said.. “Why don’t we go outside, doesn’t the sunshine kill China Virus?”
I took all the stuff off except my mask and when they came back in I said (lied lol) “my cat hates plastic, she’ll bite, so I’ll just hold her on her blanket.”
I think half the medical people are dim. I went to see my cash doc and he was all “HERD IMMUNITY” but no mask on. His wife, otoh, was gowned, masked, and gloved up. And she sterilized my cc before and after.
This is why I stay home and do most of my shopping online. Not because I’m afraid of the virus, but dim people try my patience.
Petey