Nova Scotia Health

NS health (re)mandated mask wearing in all public health facilities on December 18, 2025.

Currently there are outbreaks of COVID, Influenza A and Influenza B in my local hospital (Kentville), in wards on the same floor as the radiology department.

I had to visit the hospital today for an X-ray and was shocked to see the number of staff who were ignoring this mandate. Of course many patients were, too, but whose example would they follow? One person I spoke to didn't even realize it was a requirement (she was masked herself). She hadn't read the signs, or thought they were left over from the past.

One of the technicians hastily and sloppily masked when he came into the room and pulled it off while walking out.

As I was finishing with the X-ray and putting on my outdoor things. I mentioned my shock to the other (masked) technician. I told her that this lack of compliance is a clear message to the vulnerable and all patients that those staff members don't care. They don't care about us, their patients. And they don't even care about themselves.

So disappointing. But what's to be done? You can't make people care.

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When I first joined #Zeroes on Mastodon, I was given the advice "follow a diverse bunch of people to begin" so I basically followed anyone who had a #mask in their profile - selfie, icon, anything.

Some brilliant, down to earth, and reality-facing people have filled my feeds with useful and interesting information ever since.

I hope #yallMasking keeps exploding. It's like springtime, when suddenly the flowerbuds open and the birds sing and the insects thicken - aaaaah! *There* is the rest of the life!

I can see why https://www.donotpanic.news/p/why-covid-can-never-be-just-a-cold is rising on the #zeroes list.

Accessible and packing citations, it might help people who are on the fence to understand and risk model.

Takeaways:

"Vaccines have not turned covid into a common cold."

"Multiple infections will not turn covid into a common cold."

SARS-CoV-2 is unlike all common colds, because it can effectively infect almost every organ in the body (through ACE2) unlike every common cold.

But like SARS1.

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