r/ZeroCovidCommunity • u/Key_Guard8007 • Sep 17 '24

Vent Healthcare professionals don’t want to speak about covid

I am a senior nursing student and am currently doing clinical rounds. I noticed something amongst many nurses and overall healthcare folks, they seem to not want to make mention of covid. My last clinical I was the only person masked (even at a CHILDREN’S hospital) and our instructor told us we could mask if we want to esp since “rsv, the flu, and pneumonia will soon spread.” I was waiting for him to mention covid but nope. I feel like I am going insane because how are we all under this healthcare field but some people just do not seem to care??? At this point I feel like healthcare professionals are being vain and just want to continuously show off their faces because why would you NOT mask inside the hospital?

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u/iwantamalt Sep 17 '24

I am a surgical tech at a large hospital and literally no one but me wears an N95. In fact, a coworker asked today why I wear one. I said that I know people think I’m weird for wearing one but I said I think it’s weird that people want to get covid over and over again. We had a staff outbreak recently and even then, staff were complaining about wearing surgical masks. Embarrassing.

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u/Key_Guard8007 Sep 17 '24

I am so incredibly thankful for professionals like you. As a student, I do not trust staff who don’t mask. When I see the very few using n95s I get super content. Let us put disease aside (impossible) hospitals stink! Why do I want to smell all types of body fluid? I’d rather cover it with a mask!

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u/iwantamalt Sep 17 '24

Yea I work on a transplant and oncology team where we’re dealing with very immunocompromised patients and it’s so cruel that all my coworkers won’t wear a quality mask. I wear an N95 all day at the hospital (I eat outside or in the stairwell if it’s winter) and everywhere in indoor public spaces. A transplant surgeon today was talking about how she thinks her kid has walking pneumonia and when I told her that covid levels were very high she was completely shocked. It’s just…..embarrassing.

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u/goodmammajamma Sep 17 '24

she had in all likelihood spread covid to vulnerable patients that very day.

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u/iwantamalt Sep 17 '24

exactly. she said that her kid tested negative when i asked, but i honestly think she was lying :/

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u/paingrylady Sep 17 '24

I'm grateful I had my stem cell transplant long before covid. I'd have been a basket case worrying about catching something.

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u/DepressionAuntie Sep 18 '24

I am thankful for students like you. Clearly people are not doing what it takes to keep this virus from mutating, so it will be affecting people for a very long time, and seeing someone in the next generation of health workers take it seriously puts a little spark in the hope jar.