re: ALL hospital staff HAVE to wear masks ALL DAY. Making my wife sick

I read that as the entire department got Covid and 2 of them ended up in the hospital because they didn’t take precautions seriously.

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My professional life as an "Industrial Hygienist" gives me some insight here and I am telling you, in my professional opinion, this is more than your usual "griping staff". Bodily fluids from just breathing, accumulate on the inside of the mask, making it less porous. That in turn keeps more CO2 present for re-breathing and that ain't good. It also becomes a breeding ground for other "gradoule'. There ARE ways to mitigate this, administratively BUT, trust me, not a good idea, day after day.

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Lack of proper oxygen/co2 exchange can be a gradual killer the same way slight obesity, slightly high BP, other "slight" conditions.

Those conditions will not kill you today but keep it up every day and that adds a ton of stress to the entire human body. Like the high BP may take years but one day in the future, BAM! stroke or heart attack. Now add a 2nd stressor to the high BP like improper oxygen/co2 exchange.

C'mon roll those die, no snake eyes!

If she is having to wear an N95 or other similar respirators I can understand why. Honestly, if people aren't uncomfortable trying to breathe in those for long periods of time it is probably because they aren't wearing them correctly and they aren't actually airtight like they should be. If she can get away with it she should just wear a surgical mask. I don't think anyone would ever have difficulty breathing with a surgical mask. They don't really do anything to protect the wearer but they help prevent spread from the wearer, which is pretty much the whole reason surgeons started wearing them.

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Yea, but not really all that funny, (IMHO).

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So it is funny.

Becuase you are saying "Shutup and just wear the mask."...to prevent deaths yet it is possible that this mask could potentially kill this person and you don't care....that's ironic funny at very least.

Interesting, I would have plenty of questions for them, if I were on the investigation team, (assuming there was one).

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She works as a buyer in the basement, by the morgue.

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I think a mask is not the biggest issue at hand.

Thanks Wise. I am not sure what a procedure mask is, but I believe I can guess. My post was made, (mostly), because this whole Covid thing has me a little more than a little POed.

Having an entire workforce mandated, with no thought to physical variability has always stuck in my craw.

I wear a mask in an operating room doing much more than computer work for her entire work day. Your wife is full of crap

A lot of hospitals use mask wearing as leverage to coerce employees into getting the annual flu shot. Either get the shot or you must wear a mask. I bet almost no one gets the flu shot this year.

Not really looking for a law suit, at this time, BUT...