Wendy for Human Rights 🇨🇦Nov 20, 2022
Dr. Lucky Tran 

Remember when leaders ended public health measures claiming that they could always reinstate them when hospitals were overwhelmed again? Well, that’s happening now. Where are the mask mandates? Where is the urgency?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/20/hospital-capacity-rsv-flu-covid/

#BringBackMasks #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

RSV, covid and flu push hospitals to the brink — and it may get worse

Hospitals across the United States are overwhelmed, and experts believe conditions will deteriorate in coming months.

The Washington Post
Nov 20, 2022 at 10:13pmWeb
Show threadInfectivityNov 20, 2022
@luckytran Our politicians here in Canada backed right tf down from bringing mandates back. Overwhelmed peds wards across the nation and most won't even consider a mask mandate.
Show thread✨Cosmic Social Worker✨Nov 20, 2022
@luckytran Every day for the past week or so, at least one kid that I saw on Zoom (therapy practice) was sick #BringBackMasks 😷
Show threadRileyNov 20, 2022
@luckytran I think it will be interesting to see what New Mexico does in the next week. Now that I'm primarily on this platform I'll be posting my new mexico numbers here and my usual subreddit instead of twitter. So those of you that haven't seen my new mexico posts can geek out over what we have going on here. Historically when mandates were a thing, we were one of the strictest.
Show threadM. Tullius CiceroNov 20, 2022
@cerebrix Thank you for coming over here to Mastodon. I'm not optimistic that we will ever see mandates again here in NM, even when the upcoming holiday wave crashes into our current wave and even though our hospitals are already overflowing with RSV cases.
Show threadRileyNov 20, 2022
@TulliusCicero43 I'm probably the biggest cynic when it comes to NMDOH but New Mexico is also in a situation where we only have 1 class 1 trauma center for the whole state. As mabs start to work less, we'll end up with another Farmington situation sooner rather than later and as much as I side eye Dr. Scrase I would still expect him to begrudgingly do the right thing. I guess we'll see in the next month (unless a new mab comes out that works great)
Show threadM. Tullius CiceroNov 20, 2022
@cerebrix Fingers crossed. I had an 8-hour wait at Pres ER in Abq back in August when CDC "community levels" were "low." Packed ER waiting room even then, and people on gurneys stuffed in the hallways behind the ECU doors.
Show threadJ. Offir, Ph.D.Nov 20, 2022

@luckytran The argument to stop masking & return to it later always read like the rationalization of a cheating fiancee: "oh, honey, I'm deliberately getting it out of my system now so I don't commit adultery later. I'm doing it for *you*!"

Inappropriate behavior is simply inappropriate. And acquiring habits takes practice. The goal of unmasking was always increased consumer spending. Where masks decrease profits, they go. Where masks protect profits (as in the film industry), they stay.

Show threadPrparexcelNov 21, 2022
@luckytran yes. NYC/Boston
Show threadKim AnezNov 21, 2022

@luckytran

The current instruction from Wisconsin's Dept. of Health advises masks indoors when community spread is high. The Big Guy and I add to that wisdom by staying out of crowded places.

Show threadSteven Losco | he/theyNov 21, 2022
@luckytran I think that answer is: all of the money that offset a lot of Covid-19’s brunt force is now gone from public health coffers. Our collective sense of moving on from the emergency is going to break our winter infectious disease responses, which haven’t already been great I think #publichealth behavioral researchers need to look at condom use in the MSM community over the past forty years because much to my dismay condom usage dropped significantly over the past 10 years