Mask question

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What essential liberty are you giving up by wearing a mask?

I admitted a few under 40 COVID positive patients my last few shifts. I'm sure they'll do fine. Unfortunately, they're clogging up our hospital so patients have had to board in the ED for days, including an ICU patient that boarded for nearly 5 days. We've had to turn away transfers to our tertiary care center. COVID will likely not result in direct mortality for many of these patients, but we know boarding does increase mortality, and if the little hospitals eventually find a place to transfer their patients, they'll also suffer due to delays and further choke up the system with their transfers hours and hundreds of miles away. But thanks for being a patriot and fighting the tyranny of wearing an uncomfortable piece of cloth every now and then.

I don't recall saying anything about masks, I'm not sure why you just assumed that. I said to open the economy back up for reasons detailed in my earlier post.

 

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