In Hospitals, Viruses Are Everywhere. Masks Are Not.

NY Times ^ | 09/23/2023 | Apoorva Mandavilli

[chief lee runamok]

Why isn’t liv grace wearing a microbe/virus impenetrable mask on her hospital visits?

[larrytown]

The best way to avoid all respiratory disease is pretty simple... Stay away from hospitals, nursing homes and schools. That’s where all the bugs are.

Plus any 'mandatory' places with queue's - like grocery stores, post offices. Any place where people HAVE to go to get 'must-do' things done. Actively ill people will justify their mingling because they 'have to...'.

[lastchance]

I could be wrong on this but haven’t us humans coexisted with viruses for thousands of year with most of these viruses being well tolerated? Deadly viruses are the exception.

[shooter223]

Hospitals are full of sick people. Whoda thunk it?

[tomkat]

Mx. Grace

[Da Coyote]

When one mentions their pronouns, avoid at all costs. They are advertising the fact that they have some mental problems.

[The Great RJ]

I have been hospitalized several times in the last few years before COVID and the only time my care givers were masked was when I was admitted for a nasty pneumonia of unknown origin. For the first few days of my stay everyone entering my room was masked, had gowns and gloves.

[sarge83]

The masks were for control purposes and a lie to make people think they were doing something as a group against covid.

During covid my wife and I had decided unless it was a car crash or a heart attack we wouldn’t get near a hospital because they were murdering people. At some point the doctors, nurses and administration knew the Remdisivir and vents were killing their patients and did it to them anyway.

[PeterPrinciple]

Plus any ‘mandatory’ places with queue’s - like grocery stores, post offices. Any place where people HAVE to go to get ‘must-do’ things done. Actively ill people will justify their mingling because they ‘have to...’.

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There was research that repetitive low exposure was helpful in becoming immune.

Walking past someone with a cold, getting a low dosage leads to the herd immunity. But this was quickly forgotten.

[Vendome]

I know two people who have Lupus and they take Hydroxychloroquine

[WKUHilltopper]

Some get out even sicker.

[Allegra]

Mx. Grace, 36, a writer who uses they/them pronouns…

In other words, mentally ill.

[JimRed]

Mx. Grace, 36, a writer who uses they/them pronouns...

She can use whatever pronouns she wants; doesn't mean I have to parrot them when speaking about her.

[JimRed]

Walking past someone with a cold, getting a low dosage leads to the herd immunity. But this was quickly forgotten.

It was politically inconvenient to remember that. The same with acquired immunity through infection and recovery.

[gitmo]

My sons’ school requires students to wear masks, but not the staff.

[The Duke]

"When one mentions their pronouns, avoid at all costs. They are advertising the fact that they have some mental problems."

Agreed. And maybe move out of the nuthouse (like I did 18 glorious months ago).