Meanwhile muzzles don’t work.
Are still fomites.
Nosocomial infections are still an issue in healthcare settings.
And every single, sodding time I am in a healthcare setting in my neck of the woods, I see healthcare professionals violating their own infection control protocols with regard to muzzles.
THIS STILL AIN’T ABOUT PROTECTING PUBLIC HEALTH, IS IT?!?
And those muzzles make it impossible to communicate with a hearing disabled person who doesn’t know sign language and must lip-read in order to understand what is being said.
Not OUR protocols. Healthcare workers didn’t write those protocols - administrators did. Administrators make rules. Doctors and nurses make patients better.
As mask mania spread through the public, my fellow healthcare workers in the operating room eye rolled and laughed. Behind closed doors of our lounges and supply rooms our masks are down and we are business as usual. We wear masks in the OR to help prevent infection in our patients’ open wounds and to protect our mucous membranes from splashes and sprays of their fluids. And we change them often. The highest-rated level 4 surgical masks don’t filter bacteria and surgical smoke particulates well but are quite fluid-resistant. There’s no way they’re catching corona critters in any meaningful way. Wearing those silly paper procedure masks is all about appeasing the MBAs, not infection control.