Unbelievable

I love how something like this can reach the front page but if you take it just a little shuffle further and say that maybe, just maybe, it's, ike, possible that some medical professionals are not infallible resources of knowledge and action, you'll never hear the end about how much of a killer you are

The trouble is that it's a slippery slope between "some are not infallible" and "all doctors can't be trusted"...

Well, it's not. It's a dry, gentle gradient normal people can easily stand on, but then someone rolls out the slip n' slide and we've been living with that for 4 years!
I mean random nurses aren't setting COVID policy. I have a family member who is a nurse and she still doesn't even believe COVID is real... in 2024.
My mother was a registered nurse and has her head on fairly straight, but she worked with plenty of nutso people.

Being a part of the medical field does not automatically make you an expert in all things health related. In fact, it seems to give some of them a false sense of superiority.
- My niece is a nurse and refused to get vaccinated so ... yeah
Not to mention that the hospital might just not provide them to their workers for such a trivial thing as a pandemic.

Which IMO is the most likely situation given how some hospitals had nurses wear the same one-use mask for days during the pandemic

I got covid in December and had to go to the store to get some dayquil. They won't deliver that stuff. I was wearing a mask, actively trying to avoid people, was super careful to disinfect my hands before going in and touch as little as possible. I went to the self checkout and the lady up front tried to spark up a conversation with me.

"Feeling under the weather huh?"

I just nodded and made it clear I wasn't talking. I just couldn't understand the logic of trying to interact with an obviously sick person when they're going out of their way to not interact. People's brains are broken.

Depending on the store you get yelled at if you don't interact even with the customers who obviously don't wanna talk to anyone 🙃

Noone wants to work 24h shifts in an ffp2 if you don't really have to and also every colleague had like every possible infection during autumn already.

Who works 24 hours in ffp2? More like 12h in a surgical mask unless dealing with a confirmed Covid patient. It's not that hard.
Yup. I'd rather get COVID than wear a mask all day every day. I will wear a mask if I know I'm sick, of hospitals are getting overwhelmed, or if I know I'll be around vulnerable people, but that's it. I took every precaution from 2020 on, and got sick anyway. It's going to happen, so I'd prefer to at least be comfortable than just delay the inevitable.

I got COVID two months ago and it sucked, and I'd rather repeat that than live my life with a mask.
- I'd rather get COVID than wear a mask all day every day.
  
  You're supposed to wear the mask so that you don't expel covid (or anything else) onto other people. It's not for your protection.
- Thank you for reminding us all of the dangers of long COVID. It is truly disheartening to see the devastating effect prolonged inflammation has had to your higher reasoning capabilities.
- I got COVID two months ago and it sucked, and I'd rather repeat that than live my life with a mask.
  
  Yeah and especially sucks when you die from it. Still better than wearing a mask eh?
  
  The mask prevents the spread of covid because you might be asymptomatic. It's not about you it's about other people.
- 🤦‍♂️
- What a weird way to spell "risking my own death and the death of others is totally acceptable to me because I have absolutely no regard for human life, look at how superior and enlightened I am. NO MUZZLE REEEEEEEEE"
- you’re part of the problem.
- I only wear a mask when I go out. That isn't "living my life with a mask". I also get quality, well-made masks that are comfortable. They also keep your face warm when it's cold, and you aren't going to get tagged by facial-recognition software.

I hope she's wearing an N95? Otherwise the plastic disposable ones do really only work for preventing getting spittle on others, but does fuck all for your own health.

Don't worry, none of that happened.
- Right. Because you were there! The doctor, right?

Unbelievable. As in, I don't believe this happened.

Believe what you want, but every doctor visit I've had in a rural area in the last year (severe car accident, so lots of visits) NO ONE has a mask on except for me.
- Sure, but the play-by-play interactions are cringe af and absolutely did not go that way.
  
  If the post simply said "I went to the hospital today and was the only person wearing a mask." I'd be 10x more inclined to believe it versus this fanfiction-sounding recount of events.