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Steve

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Hospital in Ontario suffers Covid-19 outbreak, masks required
« on: January 21, 2025, 03:49:30 pm »
SUMMARY - A Covid-19 outbreak has been declared on the surgical unit of the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital, a hospital in the province of Ontario. Visitor restrictions are in effect for the surgical unit, and visitors are only permitted for palliative or end-of-life patients. As a precautionary measure, universal masking is mandatory on both the surgical and medical units. This includes all areas of the floors, inclusive of patient rooms, for both team members and visitors.

LINK - https://www.collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/covid-outbreak-on-collingwood-hospitals-surgical-unit-10108734

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Re: Hospital in Ontario suffers Covid-19 outbreak, masks required
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2025, 05:47:47 pm »
SUMMARY - A Covid-19 outbreak has been declared on the surgical unit of the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital, a hospital in the province of Ontario. Visitor restrictions are in effect for the surgical unit, and visitors are only permitted for palliative or end-of-life patients. As a precautionary measure, universal masking is mandatory on both the surgical and medical units. This includes all areas of the floors, inclusive of patient rooms, for both team members and visitors.

LINK - https://www.collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/covid-outbreak-on-collingwood-hospitals-surgical-unit-10108734

Just a Masked Man's observation:

To be honestThey call it a precautionary measure but really it is simply a necessity because they didn't take "precautions" like masks  soon enough...

In reality to read between the lines Collingwood General and Marine Hospital could be saying they should have worn masks in retrospect prior to their outbreak..I mean that is the reality of the matter at hand. I think we all know that deep down inside a person or facility with an airborne disease would say" we should have worn our masks".. That's what I think anyway. The hospital should say " We should have worn our masks ..now we have a horrible outbreak which could have been avoided by wearing masks and that is why we are wearing masks now! because we were wrong" because that's the truth and reality of the matter.


Excellent idea to use masks. In this Canadian hospital's case, These masks aren't so much a precaution but rather a necessity now that they are experiencing the full ramifications of airborne diseases no doubt. This mask usage is because of the result of the outbreak.

Now if only the USA and surrounding hospitals in Canada would follow suit and use masks BEFORE an outbreak they could call their mask usage 'precautionary' and could actually prevent an outbreak from happening in advance that would be ideal to learn from this hospital that outbreaks can happens when people don't mask. Why wait for an outbreak to happen when one can use masks as a precautionary measure to protect patients , doctors, and staff on a routine basis since hospitals deal with airborne diseases on a regular basis anyway? Why must we wait until after there is an outbreak to take 'precautionary measures in a hospital setting which is prone to airborne diseases that burden any population of peoples?
If a mask prevents airborne diseases why lift the mask mandate once the number of airborne diseases begin to become reduced because of the mask?

Would we abolish a helmet law  once it started to reduce the number of head injuries for motorcyclist and bicyclists anymore than we would abolish a mask law that could routinely reduce and eliminate many airborne diseases that people spread as they enter the hospital doors on a regular basis?

Like I said , They call it a "precautionary" measure but really it is simply a necessity because they didn't take any and enough "precautions" like masks sooner. They really don't have a right to call them precautionary measures anymore because of their outbreak.. these masks are a necessity in their case. It would be much more desirable to wear masks in a hospital setting without an outbreak going on. Doctors and nurses and staff wouldn't be burdened or burned with as many overwhelming numbers of patients if they chose to make everybody wear the mask to begin with.

It would be much safer and pleasant a workplace if they masked prior to large numbers of people getting sick and then returning to place that got them sick...the mask is the lesser of two evils ... if only they were to mask they wouldn't have as many repeat customers returning as well as workers getting sick.

The mask is the lesser of the two evils,
The Masked Man



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