Posted on 01/01/2025 4:35:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A hospital system in Illinois this week issued a mandate that everyone entering its facilities must wear a mask due to “widespread respiratory illnesses” in the area.
“Starting Tuesday, December 31, all employees, patients and visitors at our hospitals are required to wear masks due to the widespread respiratory illnesses in our communities, including COVID-19, influenza and RSV,” said OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, based in Peoria, Illinois, in a statement posted on Facebook.
“Additionally, we are implementing a temporary visitor restriction: only two visitors (age 18+) per patient at a time. Thank you for your cooperation in keeping our community safe.”
It comes as Rush University Medical Center, based in Chicago, said in a statement that starting on Dec. 2, it will require “patients and visitors to wear hospital-approved masks when they are in clinical offices, waiting areas and patient registration.”
“The policy coincides with the respiratory virus season, when the spread of flu, RSV, and COVID-19 rises,” it wrote.
New Jersey Hospital Appears to Mandate Masks
The largest hospital system in New Jersey, RWJ Barnabas Health, said in December that visitors and patients in its facilities “are expected” to wear a face mask. Masking is also being “strongly encouraged” for staff and visitors at the company’s outpatient and medical group facilities in the state, according to a statement released in mid-December.
“Wear an appropriate face mask. We will offer you a new mask for source control or may ask you to replace your own mask with a hospital-supplied mask,” the hospital said to patients and visitors.
RWJ Barnabas added that “masking is REQUIRED for all patients who present with respiratory symptoms, as well as all staff members and providers caring for them.”
New York State Issues Mandate
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I’d like to see someone suggest that I wear a mask in 2025. Just try it.
Masks are anti-science.
Everyone who wore a mask got covid.
Every last one.
No.
Not again.
And the jabbies can get stuffed!
I don’t live in Illinois but regardless, I require the hospital system admins to kiss my 🫏.
I’m gonna have two procedures next Monday at a world famous hospital. It’ll be interesting to see if they’ve started mandatory masks.
My dentists have been wearing masks for decades - ever since the AIDs issue became news, and perhaps as much for their own protection as the patients’.
I don’t have a problem with health facilities requiring this.
Masks do not work. Why do we have to go through this all the time?
That’s a quote from Antifa and ISIS, too.
Because the billionaire globalist depopulationists need you to shut up and do as you are told.
They mostly wear the masks to keep blood, tooth powder and water from blowing up into their face.
Not to block out a virus.
Well, you can worry about this the next time you visit a hospital that requires it.
It doesn’t appear it’s being imposed upon you ‘all the time’.
“Masks do not work. Why do we have to go through this all the time?”
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Then why do surgeons wear masks? The point of a mask is not to protect yourself from others, but to protect others from whatever germs you’re spreading in the OR.
Operation Scamdemic II is in effect.
DO NOT COMPLY!
You vill eat ze bugs
You vill live in ze pod
You vill vear ze mask
You vill take ze vaccine
You vill velcome ze refugee
You vill put your kid on ze puberty blockers
You vill celebrate pride year
Sincerely,
Klaus Schwab
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t-F1L8XfTrI&pp=ygUUWW91IHZpbGwgZWF0IHplIGJ1Z3M%3D
-humor
Oh, do they mean the masks that do almost nothing to stop the spread of any virus? Those masks?
How can they call themselves professionals when it seems like they don’t even know the basics of virology?
Do they know the mask won’t help and a chain link fence will keep out mosquitos better than the mask will keep out a virus??
Masks work for some things, Covid ain’t one of them.
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