Had outpatient procedures done yesterday. I'm SHOCKED (well,kinda) at the apathy of everyone from patients to staff - who DON'T WEAR MASKS.
I'm not talking about when they're casually outside or eating. Literally in the O.R. and the only masked ppl were me & the CRNA. Not the tech, not the surgical nurse, and not the Dr. when he came in to talk to me before (and after) procedure.
One patient was coughing so hard, non-stop, while unmasked staff cared for her 😷 😩 WTF
As a medical professional this makes me sooooo 🤬 !!!!
@HistoricWitness I thought I was having a nightmare. Ppl just don't care in #FL and if you say something, they say "there's no mask mandates."
I'm like it's a HOSPITAL.
@BirdsAreCool Yes, we have all had 5 shots plus the flu shot.
@TeresaMac2011 same - I get the flu shot always 👍
@BirdsAreCool I’ve had five also and still mask up. It seems like too many people either think it’s over or are just too fatigued by it all. Here in the SF Bay Area covid is up over 60%.
@kbresist In FL ppl have no way to get good data without it being disputed by our horrible governor. He tells everyone it's fine, and said so while a million ppl were dying.
@BirdsAreCool Your Governor is definitely a piece of work but was overwhelmingly re-elected. I feel for the people there that understand the truth but get ignored for political gain.
@BirdsAreCool Healthcare facility mask requirements here in Albuquerque seem to be erratic. Some have signs up saying they're required, some have none.
I took a friend to a surgical procedure, spinal injections, last month & only the dr was wearing a mask. Not the nurse, not my friend. I had mine on.
She asked me to come into the surgery room w/ her. I'm watching from several feet away thinking, "Geesus, her skin is being punctured & only the doc has a mask on." 
@see_the_sus I'm just shocked. Ppl always harp on about getting flu shots, which I do, but then Dr's walk around unmasked?!
The cognitive dissonance meter in my brain is broken from trying to understand the world now.
@BirdsAreCool I’ve had to work hard at stopping myself from trying to understand or even relate to much of society these days. I’m not always able to but every little bit helps.
@BirdsAreCool I'm so sorry that you had to deal with Covidiots during an already stressful time. Sending positive and healing thoughts for you.
@fms82216 Oh, thank you so much. Yes, FL ppl don't care. And I don't recommend ppl coming here for vacation unless they wanna be shocked.
@BirdsAreCool Here in the PNW, we cannot even enter a medical building without a mask. Free masks are available at all medical building entrances.
@TeresaMac2011 FL is like a 3rd world TFG wet dream, full of lies & bad gov't.
@BirdsAreCool I deliver food for a living currently. One of the things that MOST shocked me was how cavalier medical professionals were about this since the start of the Pandemic.
Quite literally had an order to the Urgent Care section, nurse with no mask, doctors no mask. This is MAGA Orange County and I thought that explained it but it seems fairly common.
@SuperJude I just don't understand anything anymore. I'm in MAGA FL it's all ridiculous.
@BirdsAreCool Ah my mom and one of my best friends live in FLA. Neither expected it to become what it has.
@SuperJude Yes, I've lived here half my life. Was cool before Jeb Bush took office. It's spiraled ever since.
@BirdsAreCool The demographics are changing here much as they hate it. They redrew the district to try and steal Katie Porters seat and she STILL won. Gives me hope.
Good point about Jeb Bush. Everyone just kind of glosses over how an entire Presidency came down to... the state where the one guy's Brother was Governor.
@SuperJude So glad Katie Porter won!
Yeah, it was so rigged & things happened that ppl never heard about. Al Gore was cheated.
I was informed about 2 months after the election that my vote was not counted for some inane reason. I wish I would have saved the letter!
I'd been registered for years, no problem voting before Bush.
@BirdsAreCool WTF!!! The health system I work at requires everyone mask. I work in a procedural area. In the treatment room, we wear N95s. Sister-in-law was an inpatient at a for profit hospital recently. That hospital said masking was optional (I'm hoping that didn't include the OR or procedural areas). @jaunty and I wore N95s.
@TetsuKaba @jaunty I didn't see any N95s. Only a few procedural masks, one of them on me.
In FL, these medical facilities can do as they please. I was horrified.
I've had 5 shots (including the new one) -
Is anyone in the USA taking precautions, at least in the damned hospitals?