“Take off your mask so I can see your pretty face”

“You won’t catch covid HERE! You can take off your mask”

“You seem anxious about Covid”

“Why are you masking? Are you sick?”

Lack of mask mandates in healthcare means patients are judged, mistreated & harmed when trying to access care.

Hospital acquired COVID has a 10% mortality rate. Patients are going in for necessary care and losing their lives or ending up disabled.

Healthcare workers are burned out, sick and exhausted.

The current situation is not sustainable.

We know how to reduce (if not eliminate) COVID and other hospital acquired infections.

So why aren’t we doing it?

My latest articles looks at masking in healthcare from the patient perspective. The challenges, the struggles, the avoidable infections and the trauma that comes from having healthcare workers abdicate their responsibility to “do no harm”

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/we-need-mandatory-masking-in-healthcare

There are measles outbreaks in the U.S. and Canada. A disease we eradicated is making a comeback due to dangerous anti-vaxx rhetoric.

We need mandatory masking in healthcare, and we need it now.

A respirator protects against Covid, measles & more.

There’s no excuse to expose patients when we have the tools to prevent it:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/a-plea-to-maskless-healthcare-workers

As an individual, I feel you have the right to be infected with any disease you choose

But, as a doctor, nurse, or #HealthCare administrator, you have the legal and moral obligation to protect us patients from infectious disease