Keep Masks in Health Care, & Elsewhere!

This opinion column from The Tyee (Canada) is about British Columbia, but if you change "BC" to "America",  you'll see it pertains to us as well:  Why BC Needs to Bring Back Mask Protections. We can ignore the virus, but the virus won’t ignore us.  Here's an excerpt:

"B.C. recently dropped the public health order requiring health-care workers to wear masks around sick patients, and vice versa.

Vulnerable people seek medical care in hospitals. Now, when pregnant women, babies, seniors, patients undergoing chemotherapy or those who’ve had an organ transplant enter a hospital, they’ll run a high risk of leaving with COVID-19 as well. For some of these people, the newly acquired infection will be terminal.

In addition, the province has also removed protections in long-term care homes, despite acknowledging age as the biggest risk factor for severe acute outcomes of COVID-19. To remove protections now in LTCs helps the virus; it does not help seniors."

Sound familiar?