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its sad people collectively just decided to ignore that covid is still happening
I have seen two masks since summer break, one on an asian foreign student and one on a manual worker doing some kind of road work, and that is literally it. I have been on the lung department of a hospital, no masks.
I’m not seeing masks either. One person on a train a while back, but other than that?
I’ve also noticed that the prices for masks have gone up again. Not only are they harder to find, they’re also way more expensive than a year ago (at least where I live)
Same here. I have said it before, but I genuinely would not know where to buy them in a store at this point. They don’t have them at the pharmacy, they don’t have them at the little health shops that used to have them for ludicrous money during the period where people took covid seriously, they don’t have them in groceries, they don’t have them in uhhh I don’t know what the english word for it is but those stores where they sell like tools, cleaning products, wires and other random stuff for the house. Nothing.
respirators my beloved
most of them dont have exhaust filtration but like, take what ya can get
I recently had to ask a gynecologist to wash their hands, AND put gloves and a mask on. I couldn’t believe they didn’t do that automatically.
Should I complain to the hospital? Would there be a point even if the person talking to me cares because in the end the doctor is the one who makes the choice to ignore things? There’s so many treatment resistant strains infecting hospital surfaces due to the staffing crisis in healthcare. Maybe I’m too nervous, but I feel I’m at enough risk of sickness just by walking in to be treated.
I don’t know where you live, and therefore have no knowledge of the mechanisms of complaint. But where I’m from you got as much as you are likely going to get by virtue of the doctor washing their hands after you said to. Complaints about “minor” stuff like handwashing can trigger, if enough come in, department wide sanitation courses. But those are pretty infrequent.
I’m from the US.
I am not, so sadly I can be of little help with the inner workings of the US healthcare system. I think it’s significantly easier to get a doctor in trouble in the US, but that is simply something I have heard and have no knowledge of.
Been struggling to get my doctor to get me a prescription for a vaccine. Probably going to have to doctor shop unfortunately