The Covid masks (which did little or nothing against Covid) are back here in BC, Canada - because it's Winter, and people get respiratory infections in Winter. Not because there's another scary Covid variant out there (they tried that in 2023 and 2024 and it flopped), but just because it's dark and cold, and that's when people often get infectious illnesses. I have 3 responses to this garbage:
(Source: CBC, where 80% of the images are of black people, even though less than 5% of our population is black.)
- This is stupid bullshit.
- I worked as a nurse in acute healthcare settings (hospital inpatient units) all through the 2000s, which encompassed avian and swine flu pandemics. We did not wear masks. The only exception was during surgeries, to prevent droplets of saliva from entering the sterile field, and when inside an airtight isolation chamber. I probably wore a mask 6 or 7 times in my career. Masks were almost NEVER used in 99% of healthcare settings until 2020.
- Vitamin D supplementation in dark Winter months reduces infectious illnesses FAR better than face diapers.
I will not be wearing another pointless/dangerous mask, and it's not just because I have heart problems and shortness of breath. I only wore a mask a few times during Covid - like when my daughter was born and there was no other way to get into the building. Fuck this dogmatic unscientific political fuckery! That is all.
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I suspect that the primary reason that people catch more colds in the Winter in Northern climates is because the sun hits BC at an angle in Winter. This filters the UVB rays that turn 7-dehydrocholesterol into vitamin D.
Since the various forms of vitamin D control the immune system, people have weaker immune systems.
I don't when private institutions require people to wear masks in doors. I get ticked when they force people to wear masks outdoors in public places.
Same here in hillbilly upstate NY, health facilities only so far. WHO has done this for a different virus. In NYC they're calling it a quadvirus or something, and folks, of course, can talk of nothing else. Hypnotized!
Buckle up and say no!!!
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The general public is being turned into Germaphobes - a mental illness.
That's right Vitamin D and C are the best way to work on the flu, cold and cough. I have never been in favor of the masks, and find it so suffocating
I am a nurse and in my country there were many deaths from COVID 19. I even saw medical colleagues who, for boasting about not wanting to use something as basic in primary care as the mask, now I have to visit them in the cemetery because they died. I was in the line of duty sometimes 24 hours in a row covering stressful shifts to care for more and more people who arrived with the same symptoms and I can tell you that in part, the mask, hand washing and even the vaccine, in my case as a hospital worker and front-line emergency personnel, served so that I could continue caring and always thinking that I had family waiting for me at home.
There were cases and cases, some with the vaccine, with a mask, with all the measures they also died, but there were more cases of those who lived by following the recommendations that the WHO gave to partially stop the contagion.
The use of face masks and hand washing are recommendations that are given even to patients with cancer and those undergoing complicated hemodialysis and transplant processes because they must avoid aerobic infections that could kill them. People who go to a hospital to visit their relatives with immunosuppressive, acute and chronic diseases with risk factors are asked to wear face masks; in the neonatal area, one cannot enter without a face mask. In winter, hand washing, the use of alcohol and face masks are global recommendations within public and private health care; they are hygiene standards that, especially in developing countries, wrongly called third world countries such as those in Latin America, save lives.
There will always be controversy regarding its use by unconscious people who may not even be in this world now because they do not want to follow them, but I do think that it is each person's decision to follow the recommendations or not. What is really worrying is when I see with sadness and on a daily basis that they generate disinformation campaigns that go viral, only because of a personal criterion or taste that does not have a single sustainable scientific fact.
Nearly all persons who actually had covid (not simply tested positive for it) and died were treated similarly - isolated, quarantined, sanitized, masked, remdesivired, and ventilated. Most people in the US who entered nursing homes at that time were also vaccinated for flu, pneumonia, Diptheria, Tetanus and pertussis and treated with Midazolam. All of those treatments, all of them, are killers. Why are you not blaming the treatments for all the deaths? Greater use of these treatments would simply have killed more of us.
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You're talking about close contact between patient and nurse, and when the patient has an infectious illness, a mask can held reduce the spread. In most other cases, they are not useful. And in all cases, they come with risks, and most people do not use them correctly, causing a false sense of security that ends up spreading illness.
It is not "unconscious" to be aware of the actual scientific data and clinical experience, then take action based on it. Our practice should be guided by logic, not superstition and dogma.
Have you used ventilators in treating patients with covid?
@mariuszkarowski, only in the most serious cases, when the pneumonia developed by Covid was killing patients. I do believe this pandemic was caused, but I was more focused on saving as many lives as necessary than arguing who had organized it to achieve planned deaths.
I do not blame you for anything, like everyone else in the health services you followed the procedures recommended by the WHO, the problem is that this organization is led and paid by dishonest people
I totally agree with you.