In an attempt to alleviate some of the staffing concerns, Burgum announced that the state health officer has amended an order that will allow health care workers with asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 to continue working in hospitals' COVID-19 units. The Republican governor said hospital administrators asked the state to take the extraordinary step.
Yea, there's definitely places like that, and I see people being dumbasses here as well. But like, the vast majority of people aren't opposed to wearing masks, and adherence has actually gone up as the pandemic has continued.
I think we have to consider how some of the systemic public health failures are being framed as failures of personal responsibility, how the objective failure of the wealthiest nation of the world to control a virus is being put into conveniently partisan and culture war-y terms.
We're more than half a year into an airborne respiratory pandemic, and N95 masks are still not commercially available. That's just a failure of capitalist production and supply chains. Many more people are forced to report to work in person without adequate protective equipment than are choosing to go to indoor car shows without masks.
Yea, there's definitely places like that, and I see people being dumbasses here as well. But like, the vast majority of people aren't opposed to wearing masks, and adherence has actually gone up as the pandemic has continued.
By August, "85% of Americans said they are regularly wearing a mask or face covering in stores and other businesses".
This poll in October found that "92 percent of 2,200 Americans polled say they wear a face mask when leaving their home.
I think we have to consider how some of the systemic public health failures are being framed as failures of personal responsibility, how the objective failure of the wealthiest nation of the world to control a virus is being put into conveniently partisan and culture war-y terms.
We're more than half a year into an airborne respiratory pandemic, and N95 masks are still not commercially available. That's just a failure of capitalist production and supply chains. Many more people are forced to report to work in person without adequate protective equipment than are choosing to go to indoor car shows without masks.