I am pregnant and my midwives want me to have some blood drawn. They had a hard time getting at my blood themselves so they sent me to a 3rd party Phlebotomy clinic to get the service done. I call these people to make an appointment and I am faced with “masks are required.” I asked “will I be refused service if I do not wear a mask?” They answered “yes, sorry its not my policy its the corporate office.” I said “I understand. Thanks I will be going somewhere else.” And hung up.
I wrote to corporate to let them know I am pregnant and healthy. Masks do nothing for my health, my babies health or others. I explained I would never ever be a patient of theirs with this crap policy.
My poor midwives are caught in the middle. I apologized to them even though they are super kind to me. I said they can try taking my blood next time if they really need it.
Done venting.
What State are you in? Under whose authority is there a mask mandate? State? City? or is it this company? I'll send you some info that you can use to cost them to respond. Make them pay. If they want to play this game, let's make it unbearable for them.
No state mandate I am in Utah. Its corporate policy they said
Okay. If your interested in getting their attorney(s) to reply to your Complaint letter and the accompanying Cease and Desist demand, I have a 28 page document I used and I gave them 10 days to respond before further action was going to occur. It costs them money to have attorneys research and respond to letters like this. For me, it was the cost of certified mail to make it official. In the letter I request arbitration to resolve the discrimination before further action takes place. The letter is packed with State and federal laws that are being broken.
Lawsuits are always the last remedy and to be avoided. Arbitration is the means of remedying a wrong and it also builds your case against the entity that has discriminated against you. The biggest mistake made by people is to file a lawsuit without doing everything that can be done to remedy the situation before showing up in the court room. The exchange of letters and arbitration is the means to show, if it ever was decided on your part to pursue a lawsuit, to show the judge you did everything possible to resolve the wrong. This is how cases are won. People lose lawsuits because they don't attempt to find remedy and compromise before going to court. 95 percent of all wrongs are arbitrated and never see a court room. Think of Personal Injury attorneys. Their clients never see a court room because all of it is arbitrated before it ever gets to that point.
Being a pregnant woman, you are especially a person that can be easily regarded as a medical condition. Humans are not very efficient at oxygen intake and less than 5% of oxygen from the air is actually used by the body at any given moment. We inhale 20.95% oxygen and we exhale 16% oxygen. Carbon dioxide is only 0.0394% of the atmosphere. Yet, we exhale 4%. This is over a hundred times the amount inhaled. That same CO2 is trapped in the dead space of face masks and is inhaled on the next breath. It doesn't take long for your oxygen intake to drop below 19.5%. OSHA regulations state this is when organs start to be damaged by CO2 build up and the lack of O2. Your baby needs all the oxygen it can get. And this is only a small part of the dangers of wearing a face mask. Wearing a face mask is crazy, especially when pregnant. You can easily damage your baby if you do.
If you are interested, I can send this document to you on protonmail. You can set up an account anonymously. Just send me an email via protonmail at: [email protected].
I'll respond by sending the complete document as a email. Once you get it read through it and use the Federal laws and update the State laws for your State. These mask mandates all come from the CDC and through your State Department of Health (DoH) as guidelines. Remember guidelines are NOT law and are ALWAYS inferior to the law.