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SUMMARY - UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) hospitals are instituting a masking requirement for all patients, visitors, support persons, and staff in patient care areas starting on February 12, 2025.

LINK - https://www.wtae.com/article/masks-upmc-respiratory-illness/63741115

Good to see that they are doing this, I hope more healthcare systems/organizations follow along and make masking mandatory again.

Summary: UPMC dials back mask mandate
It appears that UPMC has dialed back the mask mandate scheduled to begin Wednesday in all of its facilities.

LINK
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2025/02/12/upmc-mask-requirement/stories/202502130030

That masking didn't last long...not even a day! Its like they are teasing me ... I guess people would rather catch and spread a disease than try to prevent illness and prevent its spread with the mask. What madman or madwoman  would protest against their establishment using safety masks in a quademic of illness and diseases!? Do doctors and nurses have a say in this or are they the ones that think it wise to inhale these dangerous particles? I wouldn't advise medical staff to risk airborne diseases maskless...I wouldn't breathe that stuff in ..I'd quit. This is dangerous. Read the latest studies on the long term repercussions of covid alone and that should put the fear into you. That's playing with fire risking undetermined diseases ..just the daily sheer exposure to the vast amount and number of illnesses and diseases you face is ridiculous to leave to chance. We are in the unchartered territory of viruses..  Cover your faces for goodness sake or at least stop whining about how your hospital's waiting rooms are swamped and you are overwhelmed with the sick and stop bragging about how hard you got it or that covid is making a comeback if you aren't going to mask...

...I just don't see how hospitals and doctors have a right to complain about the quademic and being overwhelmed at their hospital with sick people and then "dial back' their protective measures in regards to the mask

Ive been wearing the mask for quite some time now and  yeah in public I feel a bit ostracized for it...people laugh and snicker at my mask when I ride by the maskless on my bicycle however I haven't been sick with anything in five years since I started using the safety mask. Healthcare has no right to complain or get attention from the press if they don't mask... airborne diseases are an occupational hazard in the work they chose and this is blasphemy in regards to the Hippocratic oath that doctors are supposed to honor as thus:
"My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick. I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure".

This is a grievance and complaint I have had towards healthcare ever since covid came destroying peoples lives and society  and I direct my grievance  towards healthcare...

Dear Doctors and Nurses,
... masking helps prevent disease.Dear Healthcare, If you aren't going to give masks a chance then PLEASE stop complaining and whining about airborne diseases and airborne illnesses because theat is the nature of airborne and respiratory diseases: people  who breathe  in  airborne illness and diseases often get sick and ill! That's just the nature of the beast and common sense.

Doctors and nurses aren't trying very hard to honor the Hippocratic oath  and its hard not to believe that the maskless aren't trying to deny  the fundamental physics of science and airborne diseases.. its hard for the Masked man to believe they don't deserve these illnesses and diseases because science says that airborne diseases travel through the air and somehow get into membranes of mouth and nose and and eventually lungs and are very dangerous  microscopic particles. Its hard to respect doctors and nurses who aren't taking as many protective measures as possible to protect themselves and others through masks , sanitation and air purification strategies and tools available to them through all the technology that we have.

They are admitingly taking less safety measures than more and complaining about the surge of illness at the same time.... stop complaining if you don't mask and you get sick or others get sick because that's the nature of airborne diseases. If people don't mask those are the chances we take according to my experience and what Ive studied about airborne diseases and airborne illnesses which appear to be quite prevalent in society right now according to school closures and medical news. It appears people are facing four even five viruses out there all at once if you look at the daily data. At this point what do you have to lose by masking?.. you are already losing lives and losing to these viruses according to worldwide data and news. I'm sorry but in healthcare setting its just dangerous to breathe in microscopic entities of airborne diseases and airborne illnesses. If those in healthcare condone and make devastating viruses legal to spread You might as well make it legal to sniff paint fumes. You know how these viruses work. You know people with airborne diseases and airborne illnesses carry and emit devastating dangerous particles through their breath.

Again the Hippocratic oath that doctors are supposed to honor as thus:
"My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick. I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure".

.. so will the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center make a statement about the Hippocratic oath? I guess the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center isn't educated because I heard that masks help prevent airborne illnesses and airborne diseases... I don't get it. Masks help prevent airborne diseases and airborne illnesses. I just think its wrong to not prevent harmful particles when in a hazard zone be they from people or objects. I'm going to say the odds  are  definitely in the viruses favor at this particular medical center.

So many questions perhaps beyond the scope of even this forum...Am Why is there this urge in me to save people from suffering? Wearing a mask is a skill... I guess everybody can't survive a pandemic or it wouldn't be a pandemic. If everybody wore a mask and there was no suffering or disease to slow human progress down or to slow the human race down would the world be a better place?

If I may be at liberty with the good readers here, I dare ask in the big picture on a cosmic level why are there  airborne illnesses and airborne diseases in existence? What good are such phenomenon on earth? If I look at other animals besides the human species it seems easy to me: I can't help but think diseases occur when and because animals are overpopulated or their habitat isn't big enough or healthy enough just like a pet in a terrarium, and then microscopic entities take over in the form of diseases or viruses that somehow curtails their lifeforms. I learned this as a child when keeping small pets. Because of education coupled with innate experience I kept creatures alive and they thrived from the environment and atmosphere I played a hand in.

All I know is for me the mask becomes a habit and its not so bad once ya get used to it considering the alternative.

There but for the grace of the mask go I,
The Masked Man

P.S I want to share something about myself with you. I am actually a hedonist in a sense. I live a life that seeks pleasure. I tend to take the path of least resistance.. I am somewhat lazy in that I don't like to do work unless I have to and I despise all suffering and avoid all pain. One might think this would lead to a life of vices such as drinking, drugs and seeking pleasures unlimited but on the contrary it does not. Because I like pleasure I don't drink because of the problems it gives me such as social conflict, liver problems, etc and whatever pleasures I do seek never backfire on me. I wear a mask because it is too pleasurable having a body light and happy free of disease or pesky viruses. I am such a clever hedonist in that I only trouble myself with necessary things that benefit me in such a way that I have the most enduring pleasures rather than temporary fleeting pleasures because of my life choices and masked way of life. There is much pleasure in health and safety. So any way I am not really a saint but rather a hedonist that uses the mask  
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Masked Man Caveat statement:
I am in strong disagreement with professional healthcare's weak stance on precautions such as masking. I think its a slap in the face to science, medical studies and an insult to humanity not to protect ourselves with every measure we have in the face of the data that keeps pouring in about the repercussions of covid, the current school closures, bird flu pandemic among several species, and hospital overcrowding and grievances in healthcare. We are in a dire state and to me the lack of masking is appalling in the face of airborne disease and airborne illnesses.

In response to lack of Mask mandates in healthcare I say fair warning:

Not wearing a mask around airborne diseases and airborne illnesses is the equivalent to walking around the jungle with no protective boots and pants on and letting yourself get bit by exotic rare poisonous snake after snake just because you think you have the antidote.

Don't be caught with your mask down around a mystery disease in the 'qudeemic" of viruses(viruses in the plural form)  doctor!

The Masked Man!

P.S. Dear Doctors,
There mask is totally non invasive medical solution to blocking and filtering out microscopic entities that ride on droplets and vapors from people's breath including doctor's and nurses breath. It doesn't require the injection or administering intravenous drugs into the subject.. it requires no invasive surgery or alteration of the subjects DNA or anything. The mask is pragmatical solution to ward off a variety of airborne diseases and airborne illnesses from strangers that walk into the waiting room with mystery diseases as well as having the ability to help drastically prevent patients you know from exposure to these illnesses and diseases that you are met with in you establishment. The mask carries no long term side effects and is a great solution and an aid in helping one honor the Hippocratic oath as well. It helps protect the whole of your clients and staff and not just the part.

Doctors, please tell your clientele that might not be sick or might be sick to mask up and your guests and staff so I can feel safe upon entering your establishment if I ever need to. We wear masks for you and my old lady is 78 years old and tough enough to wear a mask... please make people wear masks because you are supposed to protect against airborne illnesses and airborne diseases and make things safe and be patient oriented. Please take into account the latest news and data about the current challenges we all face with viruses and take into account the fact masks can greatly reduce the contagious diseases in your establishment. Please do this in the name of your profession and base it on medical ethics. I believe airborne illnesses and airborne diseases are the occupational hazard in your occupation. Maybe you could base your treatment on medical studies?

Doctors,
Here's a link to some Masking studies that might help save lives

SUMMARY:
Masking Studies
An archive of studies on masking.

Source 1. Data Report Info

LINK:
https://www.datareport.info/masking-studies/

How can anyone argue against the safety masks in its ability to prevent airborne illnesses in the healthcare profession!? That's like the equivalent of being in the birth control business and arguing that condoms are of no value.

Ya wear a mask based upon the same principles and reasons you wash your hands and clothes.... its the germs coming from people's faces that are super small invisible to the eye some of which land on you but mostly are suspended in the air where they can easily be breathed in. You wash your hands for those germs and viruses so why don't ya include wearing mask for the same germs that reside in the air as well? Do they teach this about airborne diseases and airborne illness in medical school? Don't they teach ya about aerosols and droplets like diagrammed in the attachment at bottom of this reply?

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