H5N1 goes super-spreader, USDA scrambles to rehire scientists

Well there is absolutely zero science saying they should if you are meeting for a normal face to face visit.

 

No science says they needed to. But if it helped you. Good for them. Some need a little virtue signaling!

 

My doctor never wears a mask. My dentist wears a face shield and a mask. Can’t speak to weather or not my surgeon wore a mask since I was sleeping.

 

Did she check for a hernia?

 

Yes, my doctor wears a mask, even now. During the pandemic, for a couple years, she wore a mask and face shield and required that everyone in her office, including patients in the waiting room, and all her staff, also wore masks ... because they are trained in medicine and science and know how viruses are spread.

 

That’s standard practice in all medical facilities.

 

Why do you think that DOGE and the Trump administration have been so incompetent with these firings?

 

Well during surgeries it 100% is, at a regular doctors office visit? I think that was more of a COVID thing.

Most major hospitals have infection control specialists and certain wing of ICU have negative pressure rooms. Those people would often wear masks even before covid protocols just because that is the protocol for infection control in general - not just covid.

 

Actually, yes. The last doctor I saw was a dermatologist in October and both her and the tech wore masks. I think my kids’ pediatrician didn’t wear one, but my dentist and hygienist did. The doctors and nurses in the ER and the ENT my daughter saw in December for a broken nose all wore masks. I guess they were just for show to look more “medically.”

 

Clearly they have do not know what the science says on the subject then...

But if they feel the need to wear one to this day it is there prerogative. It certainly does not help their credibility as a doctor.

 

LOL, when doctors graduate from med school they’ve probably learned more about the vaccine schedule than about the tenets of virology.

 

Science says n95 masks filter 95% of airborne particles that can carry viruses. What does your experience as a dentist office secretary tell you?

 

Dumbass dentist …

“Could you open your mouth a little wider ? Oh, duh! Could you take your mask off ?”

 

Anti-mask is not ultimately political. Indeed, there are plenty of leftists, in my no virus camp, who understand there is nothing to mask for. Virology is pseudoscience.

 

Decidedly on-topic. Countering the voodooism of the thread.