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My partner and I happened to be at the hospital around April time frame, and even though they had PPE-adorned people at the entrance taking temperatures and log
by aksss 6y ago
My partner and I happened to be at the hospital around April time frame, and even though they had PPE-adorned people at the entrance taking temperatures and logging data, I was surprised how many nurses were not wearing masks, and indeed neither did our doctor. May have changed since then, but it felt like peak panic (of the unknown) was strongest in my area closer to the initial outbreak. While more people wear masks now, my perception is that there is far less concern about COVID. I'm curious what is responsible for that - fatigue, fatalism, survivor's recklessness?
- kelnos 6y agoI expect fatigue might be a big part of it. Regular people are feeling it, and health care workers are not immune to it. Having said that, I've been going to a hospital twice a week for the past few months for allergy shots, and everyone is strictly masked and distanced. Two examples of strictness details: nurses will open and close doors for me so I don't have to touch them. And once they had me take an allergy medication before getting my shot, and the nurse actually left the room while I had my mask off taking the pill. Having said that, I go running in my neighborhood, usually through part of the campus of a (different) hospital. I regularly see people in scrubs with hospital IDs walking to the parking lot (within a few feet of me if I didn't avoid them) with their masks pulled down off their faces. So seems there's quite a bit of variation.