We’ll likely be wearing masks until Easter, medical officer says

Michiganders will likely be wearing masks until Easter, the chief medical officer of Metro Health says.

The comment came Friday, Aug. 14, during a virtual press conference about the Kent County: Back to Work Safely program, a public health surveillance tool being used in Kent County to screen employees for COVID-19.

Dr. Ron Grifka is the chief medical officer for Metro Health, an affiliate of University of Michigan Health based near Grand Rapids. Grifka was one of many health experts and Kent County officials who met virtually Friday morning to discuss the infection rate in Kent County and beyond.

“As much as I hate to say it, we’re probably going to be wearing masks until maybe Easter,” Grifka said. “By that time, we’ll see the end of the respiratory season from winter to spring of next year.”

I don’t see that happening, unless a lot of ambulance chaser lawyers get together and advertise for it on TV-let us all hope that doesn’t happen...

A claim like that will likely only be successful if the employee gets an attorney and has them file a claim/suit outside the workers comp insurance system-because once an employee accepts compensation from their employer’s workers comp carrier for a claim, they accept that as their remedy/method of compensation-no lawsuit and no SSDI or being unemployable unless there is a catastrophic injury-as a workers comp case manager, I’ve never seen a supposedly work related mental health issue considered compensable by workers comp other than occasionally, an addiction to alcohol/prescription pain killers as a secondary disability to a work-related injury-and the employee is sent to professional rehap/therapy-not self-help/12 step groups-the therapy is paid for directly to the facility/therapist-not to the client-so it would not be profitable to the client anyway-they aren’t getting paid for it...

But if the employee contacts an attorney and files suit instead of filing for workers comp within the specified time period, all bets are off...

Let’s see, it can only travel in a 6 ft circle and infect bar patrons after 10pm. I’m thinking 5’ is optimal virus height, it doesn’t bother people above or below that level which is why most young children are spared.

And some powers that be are desperately pushing for that to change as well....Foolishness knows no bounds. As long as they get no pushback, they keep pushing. https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/tdem-you-should-consider-wearing-a-mask-even-when-youre-in-your-own-home

And not just in Texas....google “mask in home?” and see what comes up. The insanity is real and growing.

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