Posted by alexandra_k on February 1, 2021, at 15:05:41
In reply to Re: freedom of speech, posted by alexandra_k on February 1, 2021, at 14:56:04
New Zealand presently has 6 months supply of PPE for present use rates.
1 month of PPE supplies for 'emergency use' rates.
I would have thought we should have more like 6 months of PPE supplies for 'emergency use' rates...
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Because of Covid...
Health workers are now allowed to wear face masks at work.
They mostly were not allowed to before.
In the early stages of the pandemic... During our first lock-down when the public was terrified (Arden told the country to stay home largely because she had been informed that the upper-middle-classes were stockpiling flour etc and likely not to leave home even if their job required it)...
During that time...
When the hospitals were mostly empty because people were too afraid to leave their houses...
The odd person needed to go to the hospital because they were having a baby and needed a cesarian, or whatever...
During that time...
Nurses and the like were being told NOT to wear face masks for the purported reason that they didn't want to scare the public.
Public were turning up to the public hospital...
And were appalled that health workers were not wearing face masks.
While hospital management...
Had sold the supplies to the private sector already.
Yeppers.
Now days... I think that nurses and the like are allowed to wear face masks etc at work.
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_________That being said...
I was involuntarily detained against my will during the lock-down...
A little bit later when people were starting to be over it a little...And I wore a 9N5 mask the entire time. That is to say I only took it off when in my own room by myself and i rinsed it out every night and once it was dry I wore it again.
And I was the only one.
The nurses mostly didn't wear them...
Or they had reusable ones that they were reluctant to wear.
There was a lot of SOCIAL PRESSURE not to wear them.
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