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I wrote a guest article for Healthy Debate that looks at why we need mandatory masks in healthcare, why surgical masks aren’t enough, and how the mounting threats to public health are putting lives at risk.

If you’re a healthcare worker, mask up.

Show us you take your oath to “do no harm” seriously

https://healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topic/wear-mask-plea-health-care-workers/

#covidisairborne #covidisnotover #longcovid #pandemic #publichealth #wearamask #n95 #measles #h5n1 #keepmasksinhealthcare #chronicillness #disability

‘We might die because you won’t wear a mask’: A plea to health-care workers - Healthy Debate

Let’s start protecting people in health-care settings as that’s where people should have the best understanding of a viral threat.
Maddi Dellplain (Healthy Debate)
#publichealth #pandemic #LongCovid #disability #chronicillness #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #h5n1 #n95 #keepmasksinhealthcare #measles
datum (n=1)
I especially love the sequence of
“sick of hearing about COVID.”
into
“sick of being sick.”
nice and tight in the consecutive paragraph endings! So good!

Really I like that whole anecdote. Not because it's the most important rational info - it's clearly not - but because it really neatly narrates a model of behaviour that leaves the reader hopefully thinking "ah, but if people are sick around me I'll wear one of the good masks instead then" and because with a HCW audience they might be more likely to supply respirators instead of surgicals.

If you re-use parts of this, I suggest considering adding
a few days later, they got COVID.
to
a few days later, they were sick with COVID again.
(because they possibly "got it" at the hospital)
Can we prevent 100 per cent of hospital-acquired COVID infections? Maybe not. But we have a duty to try.
True! How do you feel about "...But we have a duty to try to stop each." as a very slightly different framing? Trying to stop 100 is perfection and HCWs love to shoot down impossibilities. But trying to prevent each infection focuses on each patient they treat. Um, I'm trying to get at the 1 detailed violence is heart wrenching and 1,000,000 is a statistic, thing.

And again, thank you. I hope HCWs heed your good and important advice.
Broadwaybabyto
thank you for the suggestions! Excellent point on shooting down imperfections. It drives me nuts that people act like if they can’t stop 100% of infections we should accept every infection as inevitable. We can do so much better!
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