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.
@onepict @PamW I was very lucky to have a high school ceramics teacher in the 1980s who was clear about the dangers of ceramics-related dust, and always insisted on wet-cleaning the studio.
Fast forward to 2010 and I’m in a sculpture studio studying at an art school, and people are broom sweeping clay dust off the work benches. *facepalm*
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