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 @arthur_affect
I do not believe it is responsible or feasible for someone living outside of a metro area to not wear an N-95 mask when they go out. Because no one else will and you WILL be infected
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Are you talking about "going out" as in working at a high-risk workplace like a meatpacking plant because otherwise this seems like an exaggeration
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I’m talking about going to the pharmacy or the gas station, basically. Where it’s not practically possible to maintain six feet distance.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
If you go in and out and don't talk to anyone your risk is, in practical terms, a lot lower than that of anyone who works in a hospital
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I’m saying that I don’t believe I should be expected to voluntarily increase the risk to me or my mother by any amount when my community is intentionally and overwhelmingly increasing the risk to everyone
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
What are you being asked to do voluntarily?
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Replying to @mssilverstein @BootlegGirl
I guess she's talking about medical grade N95s not being avaliable for purchase on the open market
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein
No, I’m saying they are and people are being asked not to buy them, not legally but based on imploring us to think of the poor doctors and nurses. I think of my mother, who, as you point out, has a very low infection chance AS LONG AS I KEEP HER SAFE
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I mean okay, but no one's forcing you not to buy one, and if that's your value system and your risk assessment then you should buy one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein
I do. I just… think people shouldn’t be shamed for protecting their own safety when they live in a place where the social contract has been abandoned Minnesota hospitals WILL be overrun, and it won’t be bc of PPE shortages, it will be bc of Minnesotans
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