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"Seminario cited the recent report, “Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses,” that shows that the number of respiratory illnesses in the private health care and social assistance sector increased from 145,300 in 2021 to 199,700 cases in 2022, an increase of 37.5 percent.
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As an industrial hygienist, Seminario was extremely critical that there were no experts in respiratory protection on the committee nor did it include engineers who developed ventilation guidelines. She believes that the HICPAC committee members are likely so opposed to respirators “because once you are into recommending respiratory protection, with that comes a full respiratory protection program from OSHA,” with penalties for violations.
An epidemiologist and consultant, Michael Olesen, echoed this, believing the changes reflect “pressure to remove liability from hospitals.” He added, “I take a very clear position that we should be having respiratory protection mandates in all healthcare settings right now.”
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Many patients who spoke at the HICPAC meetings said they had gotten Covid-19 when they went to the hospital and that the new policies were keeping them from getting care.
Given that, Dr. Art Caplan, professor of medical ethics at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, previously told me that dropping masking requirements in hospitals is “utterly, completely, irresponsible.” Similarly, staff refusing to mask, even when a patient requests it, is a moral failure. “The first principle is, you must do what is in the best interest of your patient,” he said.
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Several people were asked why they believe HICPAC is determined to water down protections. Consistently, respondents say, “to reduce liability.” Earlier in the pandemic, hospitals regularly tested patients and staff for Covid-19, and you could often tell where and how you became infected. Since staff are no longer masking and continue working when ill, and patients are not being tested on admission, you can no longer prove who infected you. Hospitals are the only ones who win in this scenario, absolving themselves of responsibility and liability."
#healthcare system complicity#this is immoral and unethical#cdc#hicpac#wear a mask#keep masks in healthcare#covid#rsv#flu#masks#respirators#n95 masks
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From the lack of care for community health, to the constant thread of eugenics, and disproportionate effect on people of color and queer people the similarities between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the ongoing covid pandemic are eerie.
#wear a mask#mask up#lgbtq community#lgbtqplus#still coviding#covid isn't over#eugenics#keep masks in healthcare#hiv aids#queer artist#dyslexia#chronic illness
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The thing about me wearing a mask is that some students will come to me to complain about how they "don't understand how I can bear to wear it, it's so hard" and that they "cheated " when it was illegal not to wear them and then look flabbergasted when I actually point out that they are participating in disabled people's death. When I point out that they can't know who has a weakened immune system so they can avoid them. That Covid is a multi system infection that will impact your immune system the more you catch it.
#eliana talks#cripple punk#cpunk#ableism#cripplepunk#immune system#mask#keep masking#and especially#keep masks in healthcare
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i am so fucking tired of being the only person around me still wearing a mask . i’m the only one in my family who masks . i’m the only one i’ve seen in my school who masks . most of my friends don’t mask . my doctor and my physical therapists don’t mask
i’m not saying this to feel good about myself . i just feel so fucking alone . if you’re in america and you don’t wear a mask in public , i will never be able to fully trust you with my health
ESPECIALLY if you’re a leftist , and i know most of you who follow me are , i can’t believe that your activism is anything but a way to feel good about yourself if you won’t afford people the common decency of trying not to spread something that could kill them
the pandemic is not over . it was never over . it will not be over any time in the foreseeable future . you are putting people’s lives at risk
if you don’t wear a mask in public , you need to ask yourself why . why are you okay with that
#disabledposting#vent post#text#textpost#text post#text tag#txt#txt post#txt tag#i’m a ramblin man#covid19#covid isn't over#wear a mask#covid isnt over#important#keep masks in healthcare#covid 19#covid#disabled#physically disabled#disability#actually disabled#disabilties#chronic disability#invisible disability
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Who are you protecting?
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/
#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #covid #covid19
#occupationalhealthandsafety#health#safety#covid19#covid 19#long covid#covid isn't over#covid#coronavirus#corona virus#corona vaccine#covid is airborne#covid is still a thing#keep masks in healthcare#mask up#wear a mask#covid is spreading rapidly in deer – and mutating as it goes#ausgov#politas#auspol#tasgov#taspol#australia#fuck neoliberals#neoliberal capitalism#anthony albanese#albanese government#virus#pandemic#germs
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"There is nothing more disconcerting than the sheer disregard for the immunocompromised from the very healthcare workers that treat us. They watch us struggle through infusions, infections, high pain days, cancer treatments and even our end of life. Watching them dance and shed their masks happily while we are dying is not only an insult but a mockery of our very existence. Shame on all of you. I hope you remember your empathy when you're one of us." - @spooniestrong
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being one of like… 6 ppl wearing a mask and the other 40 ppl not wearing one where there are literal cancer patients is fucking insane to me. healthcare has become beyond fucked up with med workers not masking.
#covid cautious#covid conscious#wear a mask#covid isn't over#covid is still a thing#keep masks in healthcare
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nate being the only doctor makes me wonder what he's had to do for the others before
Nate does a lot for the crew. (Also woo look at his human disguise!)
When he's not actively treating or checking on them, he's constantly working to compare studies and test data to understand how to treat his friends, seeing as they have widely different genetic makeups and could react in ways that are *catastrophically* unexpected.
He can't use human rules when working on them, which greatly complicates things when he's educated in treating humans. Sera and Vince naturally have nucleated blood cells for greater oxygen input since they're always in rigorous activity, but this is a sign of leukemia or other major deficiency in humans. How do drugs interact with their bodies? what reaction will their immune systems have? do they have an intolerance to certain chemical developments?
This is partly why Vincent underwent so much testing and experimentation- to catalogue and document an atlas for the reproduction and understanding of this hybrid Variant species, and how every facet of its anatomy works in that respect. Like a rough draft you don't care about messing up, and use only to learn from.
Sorry Vince.
It's a wonder how Nathaniel was able to successfully recompile enough information to save his friends at all. It's a lot of stress on one guy with no nurses! That goes without saying for Amon (who is a beastshifter) Sonia... (Who is a living chemical synthesis lab) The various other people who end up joining... (Who shall remain incognito)
...Yikes.
He has likely seen all of them naked at least once, due to emergencies. He's extremely professional, so it's like it never happened... But it's still never fun to have to use that kind of ER protocol on your injured friends and associates.
Everyone except for Vincent, since V never lets Nathaniel treat him for anything, even when he needs it.
Instead, everyone caught a harrowing and unwanted glimpse of Vincent when he landed back home after streaking in the rain. He now flies with his pants duct-taped on. And goggles. For the glare and the overwhelming surplus of bugs he slams into at twice the speed of a f1 car.
#devarambles#nathanieltag#one of the awkward facts about their situation as rogues is they have zero medical support besides Nathaniel.#and he has to constantly inform himself on their respective anatomy because theres so much undocumented info on variant medicine#Despite all of the extensive testing and processing reports done on variants#which is done in reference to improving human medicine. not necessarily variant healthcare. useful data regarding treating people is...#few and far between. Private research and study is usually done for variations that prove useful to government positions.#So variant healthcare is usually employed towards certain government divisions or certain levels of corporate practices. otherwise they#simply don't bother. “it costs less money to replace you than it does to keep you alive.”#Lol nate chose a shorter and thinner appearance when masking as a human. It makes him look a lot more approachable and his knees don't hurt#Sera... feels somewhat unnerved by his human form. It feels like she's cheating on him somehow. She has him change back when he's home.#He's perfectly happy with that since he doesn't like being disguised much either. He's pleasantly surprised to see that she prefers him#to be true blue. Most previous partners would request him to change into other forms. Sometimes he was even asked to turn into celebrities.#Not fun. Really not fun. He'd eventually associate his true self with something undesirable enough to be rejected over.
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people being selfish enough to go to a show sick, get other fans sick, and then taking a photo with louis on the red carpet KNOWING you have covid is unbelievably fucked up
#like how fucking selfish can you be???#your friendly neighborhood healthcare worker is reminding you to fucking quarantine and mask when you’re sick#get your flu and covid shot#keep immunocompromised ppl’s health in mind#covid cases will go up during the holiday season stay safe
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Please join us in sending a letter to congress via Resistbot, to maintain masking in healthcare settings.
Please text PRIKQU to 50409 and the Resistbot will take care of getting the letter sent on your behalf.
Demand Masks in Healthcare
As my representatives in Congress, I am asking you to intervene with the CDC and with all levels of the Administration in regards to Covid-19.
We MUST have N95 masks or equivalent worn by all staff with patient contact in healthcare facilities-hospitals, outpatient centers, and nursing homes.
The HICPAC advisory committee to the CDC is proposing to weaken infection control measures. They are incorrectly saying that surgical masks are as protective as N95s, cherry-picked their data, and ignored abundant evidence to the contrary.
Further, some hospitals (like MGH) are not honoring requests from patients that staff wear a mask. This would appear a violation of ADA standards for accommodation and is unconscionable, resulting in patients delaying necessary care because they risk a deadly hospital-acquired Covid infection.
Dr. Cohen like the rest of the Administration is pretending that Covid is over and is focusing on the "urgency of normal." They are pushing people to go back to unmasked offices with inadequate ventilation, when teleworking has worked very well.
On July 20, 900 experts sent a letter to Dr. Cohen asking her and HICPAC to make their processes transparent, to seek the input of a variety of stakeholders, and to listen to experts in ventilation and aerosols. See https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10482911231195898. This has fallen on deaf ears.
On 8/25, in "The Check-in with Dr. Cohen," a Q&A session, Dr. Cohen tells people to wash their hands and stresses "it's important to use all the tools we have in our toolbox to protect ourselves." Not once did she mention masks or ventilation, both critically important since we know that Covid is primarily transmitted by aerosols.
The CDC states its mission is Saving Lives, Protecting People.TM They have abdicated in meeting their responsibility.
#resistbot#please send a letter to congress to help keep health facilities safe for everyone#cdc#mandy cohen#cdc director#covid#masks in healthcare#keep masks in healthcare
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Accepting that we are all going to repeatedly contract a virus that causes cumulative vascular damage, is accepting that the most vulnerable among us will die. Layered covid mitigations, starting with wearing a high quality respirator, says no to preventable infections and "acceptable" death.
Image Description: Dark grey and red text over a grey scale background. The background is an image of an N95 respirator. The dark grey text reads, "Say NO to preventable infections". Red text offset behind the grey text reads, "Acceptable death".
#covid isn't over#mask up#still coviding#wear a mask#long covid#keep masks in healthcare#lgbtqia2s+#alt txt#covid 19#community care#lgbtqplus#anti capitalism#covid denial is eugenics#stop the spread of covid#ableism
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too much to read, too many headaches 😖
#i caught COVID four times and it's like my head hasn't been right since#i get headaches so much now#i keep thinking do i need a scan#but can i afford one? no! :)#healthcare in the form of cool❄️ and fruity🥭 sheet masks is all i got
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i just rbed a post about something similar but. i need my white disabled to folks to be more aware of the privileges they have when navigating the healthcare system. every bit of medical ableism one can experience can be made even worse by being a poc. some of us can't threaten to report a doctor to the ethics board, or refuse care from healthcare workers who aren't masking, without jeopardizing our access to care in general or even our physical safety. we are more likely to be seen as drug seeking, or marked as noncompliant, or experience medical abuse and neglect. that's not to say these things don't happen to white disabled people, but i just think it's important to recognize how dangerous receiving medical care can be for disabled poc specifically. please keep this in mind when giving advice on navigating healthcare.
#mj.txt#disabled#disabled poc#black history month#cripple punk#medical ableism#medical racism#medical abuse#lots of tags sorry
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I have found that the biggest deterrent to assholes is asking "why?" Over and over.
"We can't have universal healthcare!"
Why?
"Because I don't wanna pay for a strangers health!"
Why?
"Because if they can't afford their own health care that isn't my problem!"
Why?
And so on and so on. Keep making them dig. Keep making them explain until they can't anymore and are faced with nothing but the ugly mask of bias and prejudice. Only then can they truly see that taking it off is an option. Whether they do or not is up to them. And that choice tells you whether they deserve more of your energy or not.
Trans kids can't be trans. Why? Why not? Why?
Free food is bad for ppl. Why? Why? Why? Why is feeding ppl bad?
Why?
Why is helping one another bad?
Why is doing what humans are genetically designed to do, to help and care for one another to ensure survival, bad?
#money aside#just think about it#then realize we HAVE the money#we have the money to fund all of this#through laundering in goverments and billionares who refuse to share wealth for the bettermemt of mankind#then get angry#and be radicalized#helping your fellow man through kindness is the biggest fuck you to capitalism#anti capitalism#politics#democratic socialism#socialism#eat the rich#and do this to yourself when you have bias#why did you think that way or do that action?#why was this your first response difference?#dig until you cant...and take off the mask
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