Anyone working in any medical context should be required to wear a #Mask whenever they are in the workplace.
"Until when?” you say?
Until they retire.
Just like spay painters, welders, stone kitchen fitters, medical folks need to wear their PPE whenever they are on the job.
For ever.
Brought to you by the sheer horror of watching nurses cheering at not having to wear masks around patients, as mask-mandates are lifted.
@PamW We literally have *at the same time* a catastrophe of folks working with engineered stone countertops receiving terminal Silicosis diagnoses at 20-30 years old, because they weren’t wearing masks. It’s madness.
I wear a powered respirator, with a huge battery and spaceman helmet whenever I step into a welding booth, no reason a doctor or a nurse can’t wear an N95.
There are good arguments for N95 being a problem for a person whose main task is to communicate effectively with their patients. (Especially that Deaf patients frequently lip-read)
These are not arguments for lifting mask mandates but for developing and mass-producing clear faceshield medical powered respirators, which we should have been doing for the last 3 years.
Matt Godden
PamelaWaldman
Leszek Karlik