• charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    This is basically every day I go to work. I think we have like 15 cases on the unit now, basically half the unit. Since they’re dementia patients as well we can’t leave them in the room lest they drop on the floor more than they already do so they’re all just out in the halls spreading it which spits in the face of the PPE requirements. I gotta wear it in the room, but they’re also literally 3 feet from my cart anyway, but I can’t wear it near the non-covid ones which is also just another 6 feet from me. Still haven’t broken my record of not getting it so I hope I’m still doing something right even in the face of existing in just a sea of COVID.

    • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      Still haven’t broken my record of not getting it

      Either you’ve gotten it and you’re unaware, or you’re super immune

      masks lessen viral load, they can’t protect you from COVID for 3 years straight when nobody else wears one. I’ve been infected through masks multiple times before, one of these times I was double masked, and nobody avoids covid more than I do (it was far more manageable than a naked infection, due to the lower viral load)

      Definitely always wear a mask to reduce the viral load, and to reduce viral load onto others if you have the virus, but pretending that masks are the reason that you never caught covid is not factual