Had a hospital clinic appointment today. There's a couple of big signs just inside the entryway, which is great!

I get to the clinic clerk, and after the usual nonsense of none of them bothering to find ways to accommodate patients they "can't hear" through a mask, asks me, "Are you wearing a mask for safety or a health condition?"

Erm, yes? Both!??!!

😳🙄😐

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#abhealth
#AHS
#yeg
#MaskUp
#CovidIsInYourFacilityRightNow
#SafetySignage

I mean seriously--fine. Not a single one of you has bothered to learn to read fingerspelling in four full years of an ongoing pandemic.

But perhaps you could put an ABC card out that people could point to. Or even a freaking Ouiji board, for gossake!

This is something that the INSTITUTIONS should be addressing, not fobbed off on each individual patient. 😡

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#SystemFailure
#SystemicFailures
#ActuallyDisabled
#abhealth
#yeg

@likelyjanlukas unrelated, to the awful people you have to deal with (sorry you have to deal with them), and agree it shouldn't be up to you to fix, but we deal with non-verbal communication on the regular. The app Deaf Note is SUPER helpful for us.

@Kellyshenanigans

Yes, I do have things like Big Note that I can use in a pinch. But it seems to me that the expectation to fob everything off on the individual is done so casually.

The thing is, sure, I carry a smart phone, so perhaos a simple fix.

But I also have to carry diabetic supplies, extra snacks, and now even straws. Even little thingd add up to a LOT of crap to portage around because institutions don't even bother with the minimum. 😡

@likelyjanlukas they could just have a cheap tablet with an app on it. It's frustrating.