this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
336 points (93.8% liked)
Canada
7206 readers
330 users here now
What's going on Canada?
Communities
π Meta
πΊοΈ Provinces / Territories
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Northwest Territories
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
ποΈ Cities / Local Communities
- Calgary (AB)
- Edmonton (AB)
- Greater Sudbury (ON)
- Halifax (NS)
- Hamilton (ON)
- Kootenays (BC)
- London (ON)
- Mississauga (ON)
- Montreal (QC)
- Nanaimo (BC)
- Oceanside (BC)
- Ottawa (ON)
- Port Alberni (BC)
- Regina (SK)
- Saskatoon (SK)
- Thunder Bay (ON)
- Toronto (ON)
- Vancouver (BC)
- Vancouver Island (BC)
- Victoria (BC)
- Waterloo (ON)
- Winnipeg (MB)
π Sports
Hockey
- List of All Teams: Post on /c/hockey
- General Community: /c/Hockey
- Calgary Flames
- Edmonton Oilers
- MontrΓ©al Canadiens
- Ottawa Senators
- Toronto Maple Leafs
- Vancouver Canucks
- Winnipeg Jets
Football (NFL)
- List of All Teams:
unknown
Football (CFL)
- List of All Teams:
unknown
Baseball
- List of All Teams:
unknown - Toronto Blue Jays
Basketball
- List of All Teams:
unknown - Toronto Raptors
Soccer
- List of All Teams:
unknown - General Community: /c/CanadaSoccer
- Toronto FC
π» Universities
π΅ Finance / Shopping
- Personal Finance Canada
- BAPCSalesCanada
- Canadian Investor
- Buy Canadian
- Quebec Finance
- Churning Canada
π£οΈ Politics
- Canada Politics
- General:
- By Province:
π Social and Culture
Rules
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I had to visit the ER a few weeks ago. Aside from me, there were two or three other people in masks, and they were patients.
I just don't understand it. Medical professionals should know better, but somehow don't??
Similar story. I was in the ER today and most staff weren't wearing masks, despite another patient just a few curtains down testing positive for Covid!
That's the reason I don't enter a hospital without my fit-tested N99.
There are so many vectors for infection that it is kinda silly to try. That being said I still wear mine as a matter of professional ethics.
This statement, in and of itself, is silly. That's like giving up on washing your hands and sterilizing equipment because it's just too much effort.
Unless you're frequently digging for gold with unwashed hands, SARS-COV-2 transmission enormously favours the airborne vector.
Yes, and everyone around you all the time is going unmasked and raw dogging the world. Including members of your family. So you either have to give up all social contact, since even if you are good about masking your friends will want to go out and eat and drink in public. So you skip that or take an exposure. Even stuff like wearing s mask to the grocery store which, would be a good precaution, has a nonzero chance of leading to some altercation. It really is wild how hostile society is to what would be simple precautions. Ahh, I got caught by federation. I didn't realize this was a Canada thread. Maybe you have it easier up there. Down here in America things are... stressful
I'm aware of the limitations I'm subjecting myself to, but I'd far rather live with them than live without smell, taste, clear lungs, or clear cognition.
In Canada, mask behaviours depend on the area. I think the larger cities are generally better in terms of people wearing masks and people leaving you alone for it.
I haven't gotten any comments my small prairie town, but it's an everyone-knows-someone-who-knows-you type of place. I think I've seen one other person wearing a mask in the past several months, but people generally know who I am, that I'm immunocompromised, and nobody says anything to me about it. That being said, I don't really go out much and literally never go anywhere indoors without a fit tested N95 or better (with the one exception of my dentist, who still has a number of precautions in place).
But there's a small city a half hour away where I'd legitimately fear being physically assaulted just for wearing a mask and minding my own business. It's basically a 10 square mile slice of 'murica, rednecks and trumpsters included.
I had a security guard at a hospital give me a hard time about wearing a mask still. It's doffrent down here