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Delightful Life said:
What kinds and how good were the masking techniques?
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Surgical masks mostly. The people I saw all seemed to be wearing them properly. I imagine staff would use N95 if they were dealing with known or suspected cases of a respiratory illness like C19 or flu. That's certainly the protocol for respiratory therapists at work.
 
I've started wearing a mask at work again. There's almost chance of me getting COVID again yet, but there's all sorts of other crap, and people are always coughing on me. Also, the last COVID seems to have left me with a bark-y cough, so my masking also makes my customers more comfortable.
 
BetteTheRed said:
I've started wearing a mask at work again. There's almost chance of me getting COVID again yet, but there's all sorts of other crap, and people are always coughing on me. Also, the last COVID seems to have left me with a bark-y cough, so my masking also makes my customers more comfortable.
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You definitely exemplify Christ and are a Dear tooboot

Esp since masksdon't help you, we wear them to help others :3

(and the more people wear them the more effective they become...)
 
And when I say a mask I mean a cloth mask, which is about equal to a surgical, less effective than an N95.

I had to work with people when I had COVID, because that's when the dumpster was scheduled. I wore an N95 then, as I did on the day that we did the most awful of our cleaning jobs (the unknowingly dead chest freezer). The friends who helped me with the dumpster thing were aware that I had COVID and masked up as well (and we were outside a lot). I don't think any of them got it.
 
Masking in hospitals are mandatory for patients and staff since October in NS. All summer long it was down to masking for staff only and only in patient’s rooms.
 
Masking and relation to filtration technology and efficiencies is interesting to me but many people are devoid on the concept of various levels of filtration ... right down to membrane filtration and renal functions! Maintenance in all things is critical ... why mental shifts often requires putting an old soul into a new sac ... carpetbaggers ...
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
People with positive tests. Since there is no government sick pay anymore, the common person without paid sick days at work has to go to work.
I read that a study in. Britain found out that kids would be contagious for three more days after symptom onset ( on average) while adults more like five days.
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I think many people are just not testing now, unless they are either quite sick or can get treatment. It's not even all that easy to find the tests. For those who don't have symptoms? I suspect testing tends to be quite low.
Nice though when people do take precautions to avoid spreading a contagious illness around.
 
Northwind said:
Regular surgical masks. I view them as harm reduction not absolute prevention
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Neato. The blue or the black ones? I see a aboot an equal # of black ones to blue ones here.
KayTheCurler said:
Some staff had 'real' masks, some patients had disposable ones.
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Neat :3 Thank you.
Mrs.Anteater said:
Masking in hospitals are mandatory for patients and staff since October in NS. All summer long it was down to masking for staff only and only in patient’s rooms.
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What kinds and how good were the masking techniques you saw?
 
Tests are really easy to get here, free in pharmacies, I think, or my last set was. I tested for it because I knew that's what was going through the congregation (thanks to an unnamed holy roller), and I wanted to test negative before I went in to work, and I did, five days from symptom onset (and I took a 5-day course of antivirals starting day 2).

The unknown thing I've got going on now? A barky cough, maybe a post-COVID symptom, possibly bronchitis. I figure I'll just keep the mask on, at work, at least, for a while.
 
Rapid tests were available all year in every NS library. As of this month, we got boxes and boxes of rapid tests to give out at work. They are sitting in the waiting area and disappearing rapidly. I didn’t think that people are still testing that much.
 
Delightful Life said:
Neato. The blue or the black ones? I see a aboot an equal # of black ones to blue ones here.
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Blue. I did see one with cool designs on it that looked like a surgical mask, not a fabric mask. I saw it from a distance otherwise I would have asked where it was purchased.

Rapid tests are available in many places here. They are mostly in pharmacies.

Hubby and I were sick in September. We used the rapid test and came out negative.

I'm sure rapid tests are available in most provinces.
 
We are actually low on rapids right now. Should check how many we have and maybe ask our pharmacy if they are available. I'm heading over there for a flu shot this aft anyhow.
 
Last we had sought some rapid tests out, it wasn't easy to find places that still had them in stock. Hopefully that's changed.
In general, self testing seems to be down a fair bit from what I do hear from others. When people are sick, that don't seem to know what it is (or isn't) beyond respiratory illness.
 
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