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Perfectly put
And I point this out because since the beginning of the pandemic I have been called "alarmist", "unrealistic", a "catastrophiser", a "panicker" etc etc. It's all bullshit. What I actually am is not a fucking idiot.
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In January and early February I pulled my teens out of school to avoid Omicron. Cases exploded and my family was safe. Throughout I traded emails with “the attendance lady”. She died today. 1/7
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So today I’m remembering the lady my kids saw daily as they walked into school and her kindness and humanity even while struggling. We all touch each other in ways we don’t even realize. So be kind to each other. 7/7
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Today I feel to my core how “privileged“ I am. I’m ashamed of our country, of this “do it yourself” pandemic. Every single person deserves access to covid safe environments. To live, work, study, access medical care & shop for essentials knowing that they are protected. 6/7
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Today I learned she passed away from cancer. I‘m so, so sad the world has lost a kind soul.
And I feel like a complete ass.
Here I was explaining how it wasn’t possible for my kids to be in school, while she was working everyday in school with cancer, exposed to covid. 4/7
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She was always kind & understanding. At a stressful time in my life I really appreciated the simple kindness of a virtual stranger. She touched my heart. 3/7
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I felt the need to justify my decision to her. I told her how my husband was finishing chemo & was severely immunocompromised, about how scared I was of the kids bringing home covid & killing their Dad. 2/7
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I’ve talked before about feeling fortunate to work from home, afford masks & tests & hepa and can pull the kids from school. I know I’m very fortunate. I am very, very lucky. 5/7
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Tonight I attended my daughter‘s HS graduation. We were the only masked family. And one kid. One girl. Had the guts to stand on stage & give a speech about long Covid. 1/
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@tamalama67
This brought tears to my eyes. I feel so bad for people putting themselves in harms way because of peer pressure.
Your story would make a great commercial, if our gov cared about promoting mask wearing that is.
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My 19 yo daughter just had a meltdown. She’s the only one masking at work. At her dream pt job as a mechanical engineer technician as she finishes her ME degree. And none of these super intelligent people can be bothered to wear a mask. 1/2
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You do not need to get Omicron. No, it‘s not true that ”everyone will get it”. Wear an N95 indoors, 100% of the time you’re around anyone not in your immediate family. Get boosted. And, my favorite, don‘t be a dumbass (I.e. no plane trips, no restaurants, no signing in a choir).
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College daughter has super sore throat. Went to urgent care. Strep & mono negative.
They didn’t do a covid test.
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Her Dad just finished chemo & a huge cancer surgery. She wears the N95. She‘s overwhelmed by feeling judged. She’s mad at me. I enforce the mask.
It‘s heartbreaking to see my kids navigate this shitty situation, the selfish people & futile leadership. 2/2
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I’m feeling like I won the lottery. I just had my 1st appointment w/ a new PCP. She was 100% on board w/ my POTS and MCAS diagnoses. Plus, she’s a novid, N95 wearing, vaccine enthusiast. Hell, she may be one of us here on Twitter. I could not be any happier.
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I really wanted to speak to her. To congratulate her on having the tenacity to give that speech. I looked and looked for her in the crowd afterwards. I searched for a graduating girl with a mask. I couldn’t find her. End
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Celebrate that she was giving the speech as one of the freaking valedictorians. In a movie, there would be a rousing standing ovation. In real life there’s lackluster polite applause. 4/
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@pb_and_garlic
My daughter only eats Subway sandwiches with cheese and extra extra extra Mayo. Nothing else. I refuse to order it anymore. She’s in HS, she can order her own weird ass sandwich 😂
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Well I am SHOCKED. Happy shocked. My high risk hubby has a dental emergency. I called one dentist. They have hepa filtration & will see him before they open & wear N95s. Someone pinch me now 😊
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This kid spoke so eloquently to a maskless auditorium. She told the story of catching Covid early on in 2020. She struggled profoundly w/ LC and needed a wheelchair to return to school. 2/
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As she spoke the noise level around me seemed to increase. People were chitchatting. I’m pretty sure few gave a shit. Few could open their hearts to understand & empathize w/ her struggle & celebrate 3/
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Always fun to see a tweet with my husband’s oncologist maskless at a convention. Of course they were all maskless so that’s reassuring to all cancer patients.
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Husband had an oncology appt. Was told half the nursing staff is out with covid. Yet they are still in surgical masks.
@uwmed
perhaps it’s time to go back to N95s?
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A few days ago I saw a tweet from a women turning 40 who said she wasn’t going to get a mammogram b/c the facility didn’t mask.
Please, please, please don’t do this.
Properly fit N95s protect you. One way masking does work.
My husband has cancer. 1/
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I keep using my husband’s cancer as an excuse for why I mask. Truth is we were wearing N95s & being super safe before he was diagnosed. One of these days I’ll be brave enough to say “I mask b/c it’s the logical thing to do & everyone should.”
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Anyone else avoid talking to MD/HCWs about covid? In my lived experience, every time they open their mouth it’s minimizing BS. The only HCW I’d even potentially listen to regarding covid is one wearing a N95.
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Husband just texted from chemo infusion center, he’s overheard a women w/ terminal cancer saying that she lives in a homeless shelter. What is wrong with this country that we allow this to happen? Relative to chemo costs, giving this women a place to live is a drop in the bucket
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If you don’t want to get covid wear a N95+. That’s it. Do that,💯of the time. Go about your life. Get cancer screenings. Go to the movies. Hug people. Just wear a N95 or better. Preferably fit tested. 3m Aura masks are the best place to start. No bifolds or duckbills.
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Doctor‘s visit today. Greeted us w/ elbow bump. First thing he mentioned to avoid covid - handwashing. Loose kn95 & surgical double masked. Pulled both masks away from his face multiple times while speaking.
He’s an oncologist.
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I’m in an urgent care waiting room rn. There‘s a lady terrified of being in the waiting rm, won’t touch anything, asks for them to skip steps so she can go sit & wait in the car. She’s wearing a *surgical* mask. We have utterly failed. People d/t know how to protect themselves.
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@farid__jalali
This should be on every news broadcast & headlining every newspaper:
”New Omicron variants are actively killing vaccinated and recently boosted 60-70 year-olds with very average comorbidites”
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@JeromeAdamsMD
No one (pre covid) was staying home unless truly sick-sick. The fact that PH assumed otherwise is disconcerting. PH needs to stop “managing” people. Just say what actually works. Give real, full bodied advice & stop watering it down hoping to make it palatable.
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@nursekelsey
I get that schools have this asinine policy. But why would a nurse actively go out of her way to encourage you to send your kid to school. It’s weird. Count it as a win when parents are informed enough to rebuke school policy.
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@YoniFreedhoff
Ok, this SUCKS. But one of my kids would love the soapbox to tell everyone all about what they should do to protect themselves from covid. I hope the teacher has some time, cuz I’m thinking my son has about an hour covid speech raring to go if the opportunity presented itself.
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@Home_Halfway
Exactly how I feel about not sending my kids to school. Seriously, screw it, what’s the worst that could happen if I keep them out of school for a few weeks? Much more important things, that actually do matter, to focus on.
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It pisses me off that they told the Immunocompromised to get their bivalent booster ASAP in September. And now it’s mid January and we’ve heard zilch on a second bivalent. And now we r knee deep in a completely predictable surge w/ waned immunity 🤬🤬🤬
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@DrLeanaWen
No. We absolutely do not. Schools are not safe. Vaccines are not enough. Most schools don’t have mask mandates (& none mandate N95s), upgraded ventilation or filtration. And all hold a daily super spreader event called lunch. Schools are not safe. Stop this nonsense.
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I‘ve been so nervous to wear my GVS elipse elastomeric in public. I imagine someone bitching me out about a vent (even though mine is non-vented). Well I finally did. I wore it to the grocery store and no one gave a shit. Plan to keep wearing it. Super comfortable & breathable.
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Happy to report my husband was able to use a N95 Readimask during his MRI. Had to talk to the supervisor to do it. Don’t buy the “surgical mask only” schtick. Readimasks stick to your face & have no metal.
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Out of politeness (if nothing else) mask mirroring should be the default, especially among HCW. If a patient is wearing a mask, you wear a mask. If you’re entering someone’s home & they‘re masked, you should be masked. It’s human decency 101.
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I’m sitting at Olive Garden waiting for my curbside order. I can see three tables inside eating. One has an elderly grandma, one has a middle age dad BMI >35 and one has an elderly person w/BMI>35. Why are these three high risk people risking their life to eat at Olive Garden?
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I’m the crazy chick who knows way too much about covid, until someone is exposed to covid or tests positive. *Then* they’ll ask for advice. 🙄
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@ashishkjha
But this isn’t what was sold to the public. It should have been. But it wasn’t. Instead you guys pushed no mask if vaxxed. How’d that work out?
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He was diagnosed w/ stage 3 cancer in August 2021.
He has completed 2 yrs of treatment. Many, many visits. Chemo at the height of Omicron. A huge surgery w/ a week long stay.
He still has not had covid.
Do not skip cancer screenings. Wear a N95 or better & go. Masks work. /end
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@shesinscrubs
Oncology HCW (and patients & visitors) should be in N95 masks every day from now until the end of time. It’s ridiculous that we do not protect our most vulnerable patients. Goes double for those working with transplant patients. Not to mention those 85yo+.
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Had to go to the ER this week. The nurse said they needed to do a covid swab, then said she’d do a “quick ER one” since she knows that’s not what I’m there for. And proceeded to stick a swab barely in one nostril for 2 seconds & that was it. WTAF are we doing???
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My kid wrote that his teacher’s surgical mask isn’t good enough and he needs an N95.
Kid is seriously concerned about his teacher catching covid. I just hope the teacher doesn’t see the note as confrontational.
Kid sports continues to sport a N100. 2/2
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My cashier just now at Trader Joe’s was maskless while wearing gloves. And she used hand sanitizer on her gloves. The relative benefit of this is so insignificant compared to the huge benefit of mask wearing. We have utterly failed the average Joe.
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@pnunez48
Absolutely. No one should have to work while fighting cancer. We need to do better as a country to support each other.
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How is it not ILLEGAL for hospitals to not require N95s around new TRANSPLANT patients? This is beyond all measures of stupidity. Where the fuck is infection control? Unforgivable for management & unforgivable for HCWs who c/t think for themselves & put on a fucking mask.
#lungTransplant
son in law post op day 3. ICU. Awake, breathing tube still in but mostly breathing on his own. Agitated with tube. Able to nod in answer to questions. Made a sign language “I love you” to my daughter. Staff do not wear masks.
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@SolNataMD
Hospitals don’t require N95s. Immunocompromised people have to roll the dice - expose myself to HCWs in baggy surgical masks or go without. This is an awful choice. But it’s reality. It’s not anxiety, misinformation etc. Hospitals are a huge exposure risk.
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@ChuckWurster
There is no going back to 2019. I’ve accepted that. And I’ve changed my life accordingly. Yet I’m the one w/ some implied psychological issue b/c I mask/test/ventilate/etc. People living like it’s 2019 are the ones in need of therapy to accept our new reality.
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My kid’s physics teacher was masked on the 1st day of school. He told the kids he was masked b/c he is Immunocompromised. He also had the kids write a note to him of something they want him to know. 1/2
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@danaparish
It’s absolutely worth delaying infection for as long as you can. Do not fall for the ”everyone will get it” trope.
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@sublimepilgrim
Perhaps homeschooling is more work for your wife then you’re thinking? With 4 kids just managing online schooling could be exhausting unless your kids are older and very self motivated. I‘ve homeschooled before & it can be a complete nightmare.
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@EIDGeek
Yep. It’s so stupid simple. I can’t understand why the CDC refuses to call for N95s for all.
There are studies too if common sense isn’t doing it for you. Here’s one:
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@MelanieWeckert
@tamalama67
@AnitraWheels
Even without mandates, people in a position of power can choose to mask. They can choose to create an atmosphere accepting of masking. Few do.
Thinking specifically of all the maskless teachers. Leaving kids to endure alone in the mask wearing.
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@JncherabieMD
I’m gen x & HIV scared the hell out of me as a teen. My own teens have little thought of it. I try to make sure they are educated but it’s entirely believable to me that HIV is not on the radar of most kids today.
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Omicron is Airborne.
You know what is engineered to protect you from airborne diseases? N95s
Wear an N95 or better.
#OmicronIsAirborne
#Omicron
#Omicron
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@nilikm
I felt out of place in my N95 at a HS graduation. Then one of the valedictorians got up, masked, & gave a speech about long covid. She spoke to a maskless crowd about how LC had disabled her to the point of needed a wheelchair to attend school. Still in awe of this young woman.
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@SeanGallimore
@VicLeungIDdoc
@DFisman
@DrBrendaHardie
@jljcolorado
@a_longhurst
Show up early, give all immunizers a N95, and tell the administrator you’ll only work in N95s. It’s that or no clinic.
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@tmprowell
My husband’s oncologist tweets pics of himself unmasked at med conferences. Yesterday half the nurses in his office where out with covid & the rest were still only in surgicals. Why aren’t onc HCWs willing to protect their patients by the simple act of masking well?
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@trvrb
Having 50%+ of the population catch covid every year with a IFR of 0.05% translates into an annual death count that we should not accept. We need to get transmission under control. We need to fund the development of vaccines that stop transmission, indoor air regulations & masks.
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@TheRealRhllor
Not an oncologist, but the urologist who diagnosed my husband’s bladder cancer took off his mask & told us to do likewise at the next appointment b/c “we were vaxxed”. In Seattle. In September 2021.
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A different ER nurse looked at my N100 and was like “oh honey, that’s so uncomfortable, let me get you one of ours”. How about hell no. I stayed overnight & slept in my N100, no problem. Them & they‘re damn baggy surgical masks.
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@chipfranklin
This question is starting to piss me off. Yes. Of course there are many, many people who have not been infected. They’re the people you see wearing N95s.
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@CDCDirector
What are you doing? I can’t think of any steps the CDC has taken to specifically protect those at the highest risk.
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@soit_goes
Yep. Same for schools:
The White House: We want states to handle covid.
States: We want counties to handle covid.
Countys: We want school boards to handle covid.
School Boards: We're gonna need you to come into school. And no we aren’t doing any of the suggested remediations.
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@itosettiMD_MBA
Everything “they” said about kids & covid in 2020 was such utter BS. I’m still astounded so many people believed it. Common sense is in short supply. Magical thinking is not.
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@haithamahmedmd
This is bat shit crazy. THIS is their solution. What about mandating N95s for all HCW as step 1?
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@evening_lark
It’s too hard to think through a gazillion “what if’s”. I think most people have decided on a course of action and are sticking to it. Personally, I stay home, wear N95s if out & would never go to an event, out to eat or fly right now. I don’t think about it much, I just do it.
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@YoniFreedhoff
My 16 yo is struggling with kids & most teachers/staff not masking. His Dad has cancer. No kid should feel like their going to school could kill their Dad.
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Word is the CDC is seriously considering limiting eligibility for the new fall booster to 65+ and/or Immunocompromised. If you think this sucks, fill out a CDC comment form here
5) if you want to give the CDC a piece of your mind about their mitigations and other policies… you can send CDC public comments below:
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My 75yo Mom was told by her new PCP that she should just do whatever she wants b/c doctors/hospitals could care for her if she gets covid. And this MD specializes in elderly patients.
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Currently at a medical office. Receptionist is wearing gloves. No mask. Gloves. We are so bad at this.
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@EricTopol
@JAMANetworkOpen
It will never cease to amaze me that even oncologists wear baggy blue surgical masks instead of N95s. As the wife of a cancer patient it is infuriating. How can I respect you when you won’t put on a damn N95 to protect your most fragile patients?
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@tmprowell
Does being careful mean N95s? I ask because having a husband in chemo, every oncologist HCW we’ve seen has only worn a surgical mask, this isn’t being careful in my book.
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@StillTooCold
Have him contact his dr. There are some meds that can be given prophylacticly to high risk patients exposed to covid.
We need to help families with immunocompromised members. Early access to boosters. Free N95s & rapid tests. Ability to pull kids from schools during surges.
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@denise_dewald
Absolutely every HCW needs to wear a N95 right now. I can’t begin to fathom why, as the hospital system collapses, all hospitals are not doing this.
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@Bob_Wachter
Why go through all this “three dimensional chess” when you can just wear a mask. It’s so damn easy.
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@takesthecake2
If you‘re in the U.S., I highly recommend the online company Push Health. Super Easy. No video chat, just fill out a few questions. They send Rx to your local pharmacy. Service costs $65. They’ll ask about kidney & liver function.
My teen just tested positive for covid which sucks but thankfully getting Paxlovid was insanely easy. I requested a prescription from an online service & they sent the Rx to my pharmacy. Costs $65. 1/2
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@wsbgnl
I don’t just *feel* safer in a mask, I *am* safer in a mask. This isn’t about feelings.
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@CPita3
Michael Mina, the guru of rapid testing, says he personally does throat & nose swabs.
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@AbraarKaran
Perhaps if the CDC had trusted the public enough to say in early 2020 that N95s are needed & we simply d/t have enough, then people would understand now that they need N95s & not crappy cloth, double MacGuyver style masks etc.
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@PamelaKunzMD
May I suggest also saying “I’m an intern on Dr. Xs team.” Intern, resident, attending are confusing terms to those of us who have little contact with the medical system. I’m constantly trying to remember who is senior to who.
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@WADeptHealth
This is disgusting. Way to throw vulnerable people even further under the bus. Kudos.
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@RanuDhillon
Then why is every HCW in my husband’s oncology office in crappy surgicals? And why were they all unmasked at an event this weekend? They know, they have the means, they just don’t care.
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@komonews
HAPPENING NOW: Millions of Washingtonians rolling their eyes.
Get vaxxed stay masked.
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We need to treat each other with dignity, especially in our times of need. I’m beyond sad at the indignity of this situation.
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@amymaxmen
@sloan_kettering
I just don’t get it. How does this nurse show up to work everyday knowing she could literally be killing people? How do these people live w/ themselves after having infected someone who then dies?
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@Lexialex
KN95s are not enough. There’s a reason why N95s are required to have behind the head straps. Ear loops simply don’t fit as well. We need to encourage people to wear the best mask in high risk situations. At that is a N95 at minimum.
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At this point I don’t even get upset. I know what to expect even in a deep blue wealthy suburb of Seattle, covid is “over” 🤪
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@larmbrust
@AbraarKaran
If I had access to a machine like you and
@masknerd
have I’d grab people wearing N95s off the street & do a quantitative fit test on the spot. I’m darn sure the protection the average Joe gets from a N95 is multiples higher than using a surgical mask.
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@Sblahov
@AlexandriaVAGov
I‘m pretty sure the first time you show up in a full face elastomeric respirator wheeling in a hepa filter that they’d excuse you from the jury. That’s my plan at least 😂
But seriously, this is unconscionable & I‘m sorry you’re dealing w/ this bs.
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@gradydoctor
I’d be eternally grateful if a doctor said they were “Unsure—but urgently curious” to me. This is what I want. Honesty. Curiosity. Searching. Learning. Not trite answers & dismissiveness.
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I see a lot of people choosing to mask but wearing cloth masks. These people are trying to do the right thing but the CDC has completely failed them. Cloth masks belong in the garbage.
Best to worst:
PAPR
Elastomeric
N100
N99
N95
KF94
KN95
Surgical Mask
Cloth
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