Frankly, while health care professionals still can’t get the masks needed to do their jobs, I find it publicly irresponsible that this is even being discussed by our leaders. However, I guess since the masks are practically unobtainable and already hoarded by some when you could still find them, there are none to be taken from health care providers. i have seasonal allergies that just kicked in this week. I occasionally sneeze and cough. It does make sense for someone like me to wear a mask in case I am also an unknown carrier. That being said, I think the current thoughts on public mask usage are more about reopening the economy, which is going to have to happen and before the virus is contained completely. At our fire station we are using masks we found in storage from when H1N1 was a threat. They ”expired” in 2011. It is a head scratcher that we put so much preparation into that, months of preparing, but none for this. We even did a mock drill at the high school for vaccinating the public if it became possible. We did just Monday get 40 sets of new PPE. It is being very carefully rationed by our county EOC. We are an emergency service provider. We had to buy hand sanitizer from a local brewery that voluntarily stopped making beer to make hand sanitizer.
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