Masks forever? | Imamother

mha3484

Wed, May 17 2023, 8:37 pm

In chicago its no longer required in my dr or my kids pediatrician.

flowerpower ↓

Wed, May 17 2023, 8:51 pm

Some drs offices still require them. Even the drs are complaining about it.

amother

Bluebonnet

Wed, May 17 2023, 9:21 pm

flowerpower wrote:

Some drs offices still require them. Even the drs are complaining about it.

Don't the doctors set the policy in their own office? So why would they complain about a policy they have control over?

amother

Caramel ↓

Wed, May 17 2023, 9:27 pm

I was in 2 different nursing homes in the past week. One required masks, 1 did not. NYC area.

The one that did not require masks, the guy at the front desk was supposed to take your temperature. He wrote down a random number instead lol

I took my kids to the pediatrician last week. The office did not require patients to wear masks. One doctor had the mask tightly fitted around her face, the other doc did not wear one.

amother

Wandflower

Wed, May 17 2023, 9:53 pm

So annoying! I still have to mask at my ob and my kids pediatrician. Had to mask when I went into the hospital for labor. Just constant masking here.

I feel like masking is doing nothing at this point!

That said, everyone back off the poster with the relative with seizures!!! Clearly things are extra dangerous for him, she’s not saying we should all wear masks forever!!!!

amother

↑ Candycane

Wed, May 17 2023, 11:00 pm

amother Wandflower wrote:

Oh wow, THANK YOU!!! It's really nice of you to offer support, it's definitely appreciated Applause

And, yes, I don't bat an eye at most people going around without masks now - why should they? If they don't have something going on medically, or have some other special circumstances going on, then 100% they can get back to "normal" life.

Thanks again for your kind words Hug

↑ flowerpower

Wed, May 17 2023, 11:30 pm

amother Bluebonnet wrote:

Don't the doctors set the policy in their own office? So why would they complain about a policy they have control over?

Some drs work in a practice under a hospital or something. They have little say when it comes to such rules.

amother

Poinsettia ↓

Wed, May 17 2023, 11:36 pm

amother OP wrote:

Los Angeles.
I had an appt last week. As soon as I walked in they gave a mask. Funny thing was, as soon as the doctor walked into the exam room, he pulled down his mask!

It’s not required anymore but individual offices can still insist on it if they want. It’s optional at the pediatrician’s office (La Peer Pediatrics) and when the dr came in and saw me not wearing one he took his off. We had an appointment at the Cedars Sinai orthopedic building and they still required it.

amother

↑ Poinsettia

Wed, May 17 2023, 11:43 pm

miami85 wrote:

Says it all, California has lost its flipping mind

It’s actually not mandated here anymore. Some individual offices still require it.

amother

Burlywood

Thu, May 18 2023, 12:46 am

amother Candycane wrote:

Ok - so short (or not so short) version, though I have posted stuff about him before, so you may find more details on other threads...

Yes, other stuff is challenging for him also. One of the things he deals with is epilepsy, which we knew for years could be set off by illness (think fevers, etc). One of the only things that used to set him off (meaning having a breakthrough seizure) is strep, but we'd give him antibiotics to deal with the strep, and he usually wouldn't have a second one.

Keep in mind that you normally don't have everyone catching and passing around the same bug at the same time. So, maybe in a classroom you'd catch strep from another kid, or a teacher might catch it from a student, but how often are you going to catch it from grabbing lunch with a friend? Flu might give you more trouble, because it does go around a neighborhood and everyone seems to catch it at once, but there he can get the flu shot ahead of time and there's tamiflu if he does catch it.

With Covid - it has at times spread like mad, and there really hasn't been medicine to knock it out fast. It doesn't help that with the flu you'll feel lousy right away, so probably stay home or at least try not to get others sick, but with Covid, you could be walking around, thinking you just have the sniffles at most, and keep passing it around.

Add in to the mix that he has autism (hello to any family on here who now knows who I am, LOL), which in his case means he's not great at social distancing or hygiene, and he's just more likely to catch Covid. So yes, we take extra precautions with him - masks, social distancing, etc., etc, etc. This was even more true in the earliest days when everyone was still learning about Covid and there were no vaccines available.

To add to the "fun", his seizures used to be really well managed - he had maybe one a year at most. For the past few years that hasn't been the case (we are working to get to the bottom of that), so almost any bug/fever triggers a seizure (thankfully a cold doesn't seem to do it, but catching a random virus and running a low fever will).

So - short short version - it's not that Covid (right now) is worse than other things, it's all these other pieces along with it that makes it more challenging for him.

I’m sorry. This must be so hard!
Particularly for you, this research is important, because you need to know that other than N95’s the mask is offering very little protection.
I hope things are well!

amother

↑ Hotpink ↓

Thu, May 18 2023, 1:21 am

amother Burlywood wrote:

You’re wrong. They do offer protection, just not perfect protection.

amother

↑ Lemonchiffon ↓

Thu, May 18 2023, 1:24 am

amother Wandflower wrote:

Masks don’t work. Thought that they had disproven that those standard cloth masks do anything.so why they would still be given out is a real mystery. (Not talking about surgical grade correctly fitted)

↑ #BestBubby ↓

Thu, May 18 2023, 2:11 am

If you elect Tyrants, you get tyranny.

amother

↑ Ruby

Thu, May 18 2023, 2:55 am

Am I in a different NY than all of you? I've been with a sick family member at Columbia Presbyterian numerous times in the past few weeks. Different doctors, different departments, different buildings. The guard hands a mask to anyone entering the building not wearing a mask. We were required to wear a mask everywhere.

At Cornell, it seemed not to be so strict. We got a mask but I saw people not wearing one and no one seemed to say anything.

At NYU, we visited 2 different doctors at 2 different locations. Both required masks.

Private dr offices not in hospital affiliated buildings seem to make their own rules

All this in the past 2 weeks, btw.

Chickensoupprof

Thu, May 18 2023, 2:57 am

The hospital, I gave birth in (a super specialized academic hospital one of the best in the NL) only stop requiring it in March. Hand hygiene and masks are only a thing now if u are having the flu and the like and of course when you are working in the surgery rooms.

amother

Camellia

Thu, May 18 2023, 3:20 am

What I dont understand is where I live there are people outside wearing masks-police men, construction workers, cleaning ladies. I cant imagine it being required 3 yrs later so why are they doing it. The homeless guy on the corner was wearing a mask and complaining to me how he couldnt breath I told him to take off his mask and im sure that would help Can't Believe It

and the people driving in their cars alone wearing masks Banging head

amother

Honey

Thu, May 18 2023, 10:58 am

I wish I could view it as nothing, but my 42 year old cousin died from it two months ago. He wasn't sick and it was shocking and fast. There are two members of my community with long Covid who are most definitely seeing life impacting symptoms. Member of my household is immunocompromised. I am on an office Zoom right now and one of the administrators has Covid and is sick in bed. So, it's still around. While I understand that most people are unable or unwilling to continue the measures we took previously, it's upsetting that I get resentful looks when I wear a mask or refuse to put my face near others. Going to a very close family member's wedding and I will most definitely wear a mask.

Supermom#1

Thu, May 18 2023, 1:07 pm

amother Ultramarine wrote:

It’s no longer dangerous even to you. Did you see the new articles that said most deaths were from the respirators?

and from medical malpractice such as witholding and banning life-saving drugs?
oh, and didn't they admit that masks barely helped at all?

amother

↑ Lemonchiffon ↓

Thu, May 18 2023, 1:13 pm

So sad yes! saw an article this morning that research showed most deaths were from the ventilators secondary infection bacterial pneumonia! Crying

so not covid per se but rather the treatment at that time R"L
And while covid may be based in reality the mask wearing is not
research has shown it did nothing Crying

years later from the initial onslaught and now we have facts on the ground as to what worked and also the "bonus" that the virus like all coronaviruses have mutated weaker at least B"H

amother

Magenta

Thu, May 18 2023, 2:04 pm

Im at a pediatric hospital in NY now and they made me put on a mask