re: Masked Rebellion

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The sign on the door said - don’t come in if you are sick. What the frick?

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Well, there's a pretty good reason for this. People in the doctor's office expose a lot of elderly and chronically ill folks who need to come in for various things that really can't be put off.
Most "sick" visits on younger, healthier folks can wait, be switched to telehealth, and I've even heard of some offices seeing people curbside in their vehicles. The reason is that doctors will spend 7-15 minutes in a room with a patient. Most doctors are in decent health and low risk to contract a serious illness from the virus, which makes us generally high risk to spread it to particularly ill people who are otherwise doing a good job of staying home and away from everyone.
Wife and I both have essentially shut down social life, shopping, etc and go almost nowhere that isn't necessary because we put people who need to see us at risk. So there is at least some pretty valid reasoning behind this one.
Granted, those old/sick folks are going to eventually get it anyway in all likelihood, but preventing ourselves from becoming "super spreaders" is fairly high priority for us.