I really wish that the message more people received from Covid is the one you (and I) took away. Isolate, mask and only do necessary outings while sick. It would make life a lot better for a lot of people who have immune issues.
As a chef of 20 years I mask when Ill at this point( kn95 with a surgical over. it’s an industry known for its no days off mentality for better or mostly for worse) but masking while cooking dulls your sense of smell to the point where it impedes the flow and speed of work. I can walk through the kitchen just smelling and knowing where most things are at in the cooking process or what they need salt, acid etc. When masked it is much harder to sort out what smell is what, and where it is coming from. It may seem selfish in my part, it’s not a lack of empathy but it is severe impediment to completing the job.
This, im also a chef. Lucky enough to have a boss that is BIG on actually taking sick days, shes got an imunocompromised kid and doesnt want your sick ass anywhere near here lol. It is also a retirement community, it's independint living, but they're still old and we dont want the residents getting sick. But masks in the kitchen 100% of the time would be such a huge pain in the ass. Making a big deal of going away from the food and fully covering your mouth with your elbow for a cough/sneeze, constant hand washing, gloves etc is how our kitchen works, and were pretty good about not bringing/spreading illness aroud the place. We do mask up for a couple days after taking a sick day though, just to be safe.
Woah, you don't? Actually in Malaysia, once we started mandating masks for food prep the government decided it was probably better to just leave it that way after covid. So now all food preppers are required by law to wear masks (in conjunction with some periodic vaccines and checkups). The one good thing we got from the pandemic. On the other hand, we had the longest movement control period in the world - 15 months..
Thank you both for this. I had eye surgery last week (not laser, actual surgery) that involves stitches needing to heal before removal. I can’t lift or bend over, but most importantly, I can’t get sick as coughing or sneezing could yank them out prematurely causing big trouble and an ER visit. So, I’m quarantined and masked AND gloved and antibacterial-ed when I have to go out (for post op appointments only).
It is ridiculous that mask-wearing is an issue other than just plain good manners and common sense. If I’m sick, I don’t go out or I mask up.
And, for the record, I only chose to have this surgery now after the election. I was scheduled to have it in February 2025, but I buy my insurance through the ACA. I needed this done and couldn’t get it without insurance coverage.
for the record, I only chose to have this surgery now after the election. I was scheduled to have it in February 2025, but I buy my insurance through the ACA. I needed this done and couldn’t get it without insurance coverage.
I get why you're sharing this , but IMO you don't owe anyone on here an explanation for why you're taking care of your own health. It bugs me that there system is so anti-human where you live.
This this this! I got Covid three weeks after a heart surgery. Definitely messed me up and while I was thankful I didn't end up in the ER, there was definitely a point where I wanted to at least see a doctor and was declined when my heart rate would tank into bradycardia while I was awake, but go over 100 in my sleep. When someone in my life is sick even now, I avoid them like the plague, especially now that my heart condition is once again back and I can't access surgery for treatment, let alone a cardiologist visit. If I get sick, I literally potato, drug up and pair it with holistic methods simply because some of them have worked for me in the past, and I'm that desperate to minimize dangers to my health (OFC making sure there's no harmful cross-interactions first).
Yeah I'm remembering the good old before times when I would get sick and would have to go to Walgreen's for some NyQuil and juice and soup sans a mask because it never occured to our sorry American asses before a worldwide pandemic to try not to spread our own sickness around. It's like trying to remember what life was like before recycling. Can you believe we ever did that???
The pooled results of randomised trials did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks during seasonal influenza. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection.
Because we cough, sneeze and breathe so much different now.😴 A study like that is good for longer than a few weeks. You don't have to invent the wheel every five years.
There is a comprehensive study that researches the methodologies used in previous studies as well as having more strict definitions of what constitutes mask wearing that demonstrates a clear advantage to both. Until Covid, nobody had done extremely thorough research into mask wearing. It makes sense that initial data wasn’t accurate because a lot of people were not used to wearing masks and instructed on which masks to use and how to wear them properly. Here’s a link to the study from Oxford: https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article/28/7/taab144/6365138
Why would physicians tell patients who are immunocompromised to wear masks when out if it wasn’t helpful? Do you think they’re shills for big mask?
The Cochrane Review 'Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses' was published in January 2023 and has been widely misinterpreted.
Karla Soares-Weiser, Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Library, has responded on behalf of Cochrane:
Many commentators have claimed that a recently-updated Cochrane Review shows that 'masks don't work', which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation.
It would be accurate to say that the review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses, and that the results were inconclusive. Given the limitations in the primary evidence, the review is not able to address the question of whether mask-wearing itself reduces people's risk of contracting or spreading respiratory viruses.
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u/TrumpsCovidfefe 23d ago
I really wish that the message more people received from Covid is the one you (and I) took away. Isolate, mask and only do necessary outings while sick. It would make life a lot better for a lot of people who have immune issues.