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> medical professionals were having a lot of difficulty acquiring PPE Weirdly, medical professionals were also being told not to wear masks. Multiple nurses we
by _delirium 5y ago
> medical professionals were having a lot of difficulty acquiring PPE
Weirdly, medical professionals were also being told not to wear masks. Multiple nurses were either fired or quit over the issue, because hospital policy didn't allow general mask-wearing out of a fear of scaring people:
https://www.wbrc.com/2020/03/23/nurse-claims-he-was-fired-wearing-face-mask-treat-okla-hospital-patient/ https://www.wbrc.com/2020/03/23/nurse-claims-he-was-fired-we...
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85760 https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85760
https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/nurse-fired-wearing-mask-coronavirus-11894504 https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/nurse-fired-wearing-mask...
- titzer 5y ago> out of a fear of scaring people: Which is the greatest irony of all. Nothing is more terrifying than finding out you are being lied to, it's actually way worse, and leadership has no clue what it is doing.
- whimsicalism 5y agoYes, and that is absolutely stupid and a failure. I am curious if that is due to the WHO messaging or just because with thousands of hospitals, the probability of having a stupid manager approaches 1.