Also: I mean, I have had major invasive surgical procedures in the past 18 months, and my mom has to go to hospitals for regular checkups and stuff. No one talks about N-95 masks for PATIENTS
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Right, and that sucks, but while everything is in short supply the best way to keep patients from being infected is to limit their interactions with anyone but hospital staff and keep the hospital staff uninfected
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The way I see it, the *right* solution is to provide masks for people who aren’t getting clout and stable (for nurses) or enormous (for doctors) salaries to be there and take that risk, and who DO have a choice about being there
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I mean that's a bad take The mask is an intrinsic necessity to do the job, a nurse without a mask is such a threat to patient safety it would be better not to have them working at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I wouldn’t be making this take if I hadn’t spent half a year at higher risk and putting my mom at higher risk out of guilt before I finally broke down and ordered KF95 masks from Chinese suppliers because I wore a cloth mask and no one else did
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
I really don’t think everyone here understands this: this isn’t a “everyone is wearing cloth masks, which provide pretty good protection for people around them” situation. Where I am it’s a “the extreme minority of Democrats wear cloth masks, everyone else wears nada”
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
In that situation, those of us making the “right” choice have lost the prisoner’s dilemma and have an extreme chance of getting infected, since cloth masks provide about 5% protection for the wearer and more than 50% of people we wear don’t even use those.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
I don’t see how you can say that I should out of an abstract principal that even if I survive I will never see a direct impact of since this is one of those “everyone has to follow the rule or it doesn’t help” things, give myself a probably better than 50% infection chance
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Which would give my mother, who I love dearly, a likely greater than 50% death chance - and yeah, “what about when you get to the hospital” - keeping her from getting sick improves her chances better than a drop in the ocean improved mask availability for doctors
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
The mask, in and of itself, is not the determining factor here, social distancing in general is
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If you don't actually have a job involving interacting with the public and you limit your excursions to be brief and infrequent shopping trips you're almost certainly at lower risk than a doctor who has the best possible PPE
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I’m not going to be the person who kills my mother.
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