Just going to walk in to work and refuse outright to wear a mask. I have a voice recorder that I plan on bringing with as well. I'm going to start doing my job without a mask, refuse to wear one, and tell them to give me a written letter of termination otherwise.
EDIT: Guys, prayers worked, SCOTUS didn't completely betray us all
So that’s interesting you mention the stomach pain and headache I can understand but the stomach pain is curious.
There’s another nurse and we both get super nauseous when we are put with Covid patients. Like after an hour she’s in the BR throwing up and I’m taking nausea pills. At some point Covid is just part of our lives.
I’d rather get Covid for the fourth time than wear a mask but I know the mask wearing is recommended to protect others, not to protect myself. But seriously much of this was drawn in the beginning as an effort to end the pandemic. Moving forward they need to admit there’s no ending it, it’s now endemic and address the long term health outcomes whether it be discomfort or headache, in other situations this would be a hazard to get these symptoms because of a job.
Oh it’s fine just throwing up with a migraine at work. That’s fine now. Toughen up cupcake.
Problem is people will just get agitated and lose their shit and quit.
My position I believe masks work reasonably to protect others from large droplets so when you are sick wear one. Or I should wear one in front of my patients within six feet. That’s reasonable. But forcing a mask policy even when there’s not an outbreak, or in a wave in your area, these strategies should have been saved for these cases.
Just during a time it makes sense. The health officials don’t want to do their jobs and teach best practices during a time it’s needed so they blanketed the policy. Wear mask all the time forever! When even in an Ebola outbreak they taught when it’s appropriate to wear masks it wasn’t all the time for the rest of your life.