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Pennsylvania - UPMC hospitals institute masking requirement
By: Steve Date: February 10, 2025, 2:56 pm
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SUMMARY - UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
hospitals are instituting a masking requirement for all
patients, visitors, support persons, and staff in patient care
areas starting on February 12, 2025.
LINK -
HTML https://www.wtae.com/article/masks-upmc-respiratory-illness/63741115
HTML https://www.wtae.com/article/masks-upmc-respiratory-illness/63741115
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Re: Pennsylvania - UPMC hospitals institute masking requirement
By: Masked Man Date: February 10, 2025, 9:07 pm
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[quote author=Steve link=topic=1906.msg3084#msg3084
date=1739220964]
SUMMARY - UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
hospitals are instituting a masking requirement for all
patients, visitors, support persons, and staff in patient care
areas starting on February 12, 2025.
LINK -
HTML https://www.wtae.com/article/masks-upmc-respiratory-illness/63741115
HTML https://www.wtae.com/article/masks-upmc-respiratory-illness/63741115
[/quote]
well its feb 10th two more super spreading days to go at the
hospital (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)..
.. What's weird is that the Pittsburg's ACTION NEWS FOUR channel
is not actually doing a segment on the hospital University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center but rather a story on the Allegheny
Health Network which is not using any masks in their footage
whatsoever and doesn't mention anything about masks in their
news coverage. At Allegheny Health Network they just talked
about hand washing and basically showed tons of footage of
doctors talking maskless about the "quademic" and how dangerous
it is meanwhile there's no masks on the doctors or people
featured in the news story that's for sure. People in the news
story are coughing and sneezing and all it says on the news is
to keep washing those dirty hands! .. yet the article reads
that some spokesperson at Allegheny Health Network is "strongly
encouraging mask usage"...Ha! A spokesperson!? There's never
spokesperson around whenever Ive gone to the doctors!
Its like the Pittsburg's ACTION NEWS FOUR went to the wrong
place or mis-titled their news story ..maybe they did that
because the news channel didn't have to wear masks over at
Allegheny Health Network so they went to Allegheny Health
Network for footage instead of the hospital University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center which will require cameramen and news
anchors to actually wear a mask two days from now.
I'm glad to see the hospital University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center is planning on using masks two days from now which just
seems weird to wait. I guess they need time to figure out how
the mask goes on. :)
I mean jeesh the news story is entitled "UPMC (University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center) hospitals are instituting a masking
requirement" So a news channel needs to at least show some
footage of people properly wearing N95 masks with no nose
slippage just so people know what to expect and so they can
learn from the news!
Its like they can't bring themselves to even show a mask or
prepare people to wear one for the hospital story they are
supposed to be doing. Is there something wrong with showing
footage of healthy or at least responsible loving people in
their masks either abiding a guideline or working professionally
in their masks in America!? News is supposed to be informative
and at least offer a little guidance as to how to wear a mask if
they are going to do a story it. I'm telling ya man people act
like the mask is some sort of punishment when really its a
blessing and a lifesaver. I tell you the news made Allegheny
Health Network look horrible all they show is some maskless
doctor telling everybody to wash their hands ..lol .. super
spread city man! The new article writes later that a spokes
person at Allegheny Health Network telling the news channel in
retrospect they encourage masking!? That's just total hogwash!
An anonymous spokesperson for Allegheny Health Network with no
mention of their name!? lol c'mon gimmie a break... anybody here
ever hear about a "spokesperson" at a healthcare facility? Ever
meet one?
Regardless I am glad to see the hospital University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center is planning on using masks.
I guess they are gonna wait for two more days... and maybe
practice breaking their mask in at home or something. I mean
there's no rush right?(...I'm being sarcastic... )Its only a
quademic .. ::) after all its not quindemic or a
sextuplitdemic not quite yet unless we count bird flu or
monkeypox in there or tuberculosis which is in certain
regions...
I wanna see some masks!!! hurry..why wait for the the
quintodemic!? A quademic is an emergency enough..if one don't
get ya the other three will ...there's at least four airborne
diseases going at same time at same time that is like Russian
roulette with four bullets the chamber... there's a 'quademic'
going on!
The Masked Man
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Re: Pennsylvania - UPMC hospitals institute masking requirement
By: Data Report Date: February 11, 2025, 12:01 am
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Good to see that they are doing this, I hope more healthcare
systems/organizations follow along and make masking mandatory
again.
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Re: Pennsylvania - UPMC hospitals institute masking requirement
By: Masked Man Date: February 11, 2025, 4:46 am
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I hope they keep their masking mandate on because then they will
be in the habit of wearing masks around airborne diseases year
round and people will stay safer.
Its like as soon as people get better they take off the mask...
that's just like abandoning a motorcycle helmet law every time
nobody gets any head injuries it would be like lifting the
helmet law until a majority of people start getting head
injuries then they'd have to reissue the helmet law...
Airborne illnesses are just the nature of the doctors and nurses
work and its the nature of what healthcare facilities deal with
year long.. airborne illnesses and diseases is a doctor and
nurses "occupational hazard so I am hoping they keep masking
for this occupational and social hazard just like a painter of
commercial products has to also wear a mask.. anyway that's my
hope is they get into the habit of using all the precautions for
the airborne illnesses they deal with year round no matter how
fewer cases appear. An airborne disease is what they work around
so to me it just makes sense to wear protective gear for the job
they have just like a construction worker on heavy equipment has
to wear a helmet.
I am glad at least they are on the right track,, I just hope
they stay on it and get into the habit of using the right gear
for the right job and the right protective mask for the
microscopic entities they routinely deal with year round .
I do wish newscasters would wear masks when they enter dangerous
areas.. the newscasters themselves aren't playing along with the
rules.. they need to wear masks when they enter dangerous
grounds such as when entering healthcare grounds and when they
are around herds and flocks of animals... if they do a story on
masks then they need to show some masks.
But yeah at least this hospital is going to have mandate and
they haven't said its only a 2 week deal ..
I guess I'm just dreaming that healthcare and dentists will mask
for good.
I'm so tired of living in fear of healthcare facilities. I'm
scared to go and take my loved ones around sick people that
don't mask. Its very uncomfortable to go to these waiting rooms
with sick people that don't mask so we avoid getting medical
attention and going to dentist. My loved one is 78 years old and
its like pulling teeth to get people to respect and even put on
a mask around her and me.
Its super tough and we skip going to doctors and dentist because
where I live nobody masks and that's hard for us personally.
Glad to see one hospital mandating masking.
I feel guilty for not taking loved one to doctors but the sick
people there don't mask I wish healthcare would mandate the mask
here for good and for the sake of goodness.
Healthcare facilities , doctor's offices eye doctor's and
dentists have just got to be the most likely places to get sick
or catch diseases number one.. that's where sick people with
ailments go and that's where there's a lot close encounters and
gatherings of people are either sick or with ailments occur.
These are the number one most likely places to get sick which
is why it should be a law they mask there. Illnesses and
diseases go along with this territory and is name of their game,
A doctor or nurse without a mask is like a bird without a beak,
tree, or wings.. it doesn't make sense
maybe more and more healthcare facilities will adopt the same
mask mandate stance this hospital is. That would make life so
much easier.
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Re: Pennsylvania - UPMC hospitals institute masking requirement
By: Masked Man Date: February 13, 2025, 4:31 pm
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Summary: UPMC dials back mask mandate
It appears that UPMC has dialed back the mask mandate scheduled
to begin Wednesday in all of its facilities.
LINK
HTML https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2025/02/12/upmc-mask-requirement/stories/202502130030
That masking didn't last long...not even a day! Its like they
are teasing me ... I guess people would rather catch and spread
a disease than try to prevent illness and prevent its spread
with the mask. What madman or madwoman would protest against
their establishment using safety masks in a quademic of illness
and diseases!? Do doctors and nurses have a say in this or are
they the ones that think it wise to inhale these dangerous
particles? I wouldn't advise medical staff to risk airborne
diseases maskless...I wouldn't breathe that stuff in ..I'd quit.
This is dangerous. Read the latest studies on the long term
repercussions of covid alone and that should put the fear into
you. That's playing with fire risking undetermined diseases
..just the daily sheer exposure to the vast amount and number of
illnesses and diseases you face is ridiculous to leave to
chance. We are in the unchartered territory of viruses.. Cover
your faces for goodness sake or at least stop whining about how
your hospital's waiting rooms are swamped and you are
overwhelmed with the sick and stop bragging about how hard you
got it or that covid is making a comeback if you aren't going to
mask...
...I just don't see how hospitals and doctors have a right to
complain about the quademic and being overwhelmed at their
hospital with sick people and then "dial back' their protective
measures in regards to the mask
Ive been wearing the mask for quite some time now and yeah in
public I feel a bit ostracized for it...people laugh and snicker
at my mask when I ride by the maskless on my bicycle however I
haven't been sick with anything in five years since I started
using the safety mask. Healthcare has no right to complain or
get attention from the press if they don't mask... airborne
diseases are an occupational hazard in the work they chose and
this is blasphemy in regards to the Hippocratic oath that
doctors are supposed to honor as thus:
"My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to
care adequately for the sick. I will prevent disease whenever I
can, for prevention is preferable to cure".
This is a grievance and complaint I have had towards healthcare
ever since covid came destroying peoples lives and society and
I direct my grievance towards healthcare...
Dear Doctors and Nurses,
... masking helps prevent disease.Dear Healthcare, If you aren't
going to give masks a chance then PLEASE stop complaining and
whining about airborne diseases and airborne illnesses because
theat is the nature of airborne and respiratory diseases: people
who breathe in airborne illness and diseases often get sick
and ill! That's just the nature of the beast and common sense.
Doctors and nurses aren't trying very hard to honor the
Hippocratic oath and its hard not to believe that the maskless
aren't trying to deny the fundamental physics of science and
airborne diseases.. its hard for the Masked man to believe they
don't deserve these illnesses and diseases because science says
that airborne diseases travel through the air and somehow get
into membranes of mouth and nose and and eventually lungs and
are very dangerous microscopic particles. Its hard to respect
doctors and nurses who aren't taking as many protective measures
as possible to protect themselves and others through masks ,
sanitation and air purification strategies and tools available
to them through all the technology that we have.
They are admitingly taking less safety measures than more and
complaining about the surge of illness at the same time.... stop
complaining if you don't mask and you get sick or others get
sick because that's the nature of airborne diseases. If people
don't mask those are the chances we take according to my
experience and what Ive studied about airborne diseases and
airborne illnesses which appear to be quite prevalent in society
right now according to school closures and medical news. It
appears people are facing four even five viruses out there all
at once if you look at the daily data. At this point what do you
have to lose by masking?.. you are already losing lives and
losing to these viruses according to worldwide data and news.
I'm sorry but in healthcare setting its just dangerous to
breathe in microscopic entities of airborne diseases and
airborne illnesses. If those in healthcare condone and make
devastating viruses legal to spread You might as well make it
legal to sniff paint fumes. You know how these viruses work. You
know people with airborne diseases and airborne illnesses carry
and emit devastating dangerous particles through their breath.
Again the Hippocratic oath that doctors are supposed to honor as
thus:
"My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to
care adequately for the sick. I will prevent disease whenever I
can, for prevention is preferable to cure".
.. so will the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center make a
statement about the Hippocratic oath? I guess the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center isn't educated because I heard that
masks help prevent airborne illnesses and airborne diseases... I
don't get it. Masks help prevent airborne diseases and airborne
illnesses. I just think its wrong to not prevent harmful
particles when in a hazard zone be they from people or objects.
I'm going to say the odds are definitely in the viruses favor
at this particular medical center.
So many questions perhaps beyond the scope of even this
forum...Am Why is there this urge in me to save people from
suffering? Wearing a mask is a skill... I guess everybody can't
survive a pandemic or it wouldn't be a pandemic. If everybody
wore a mask and there was no suffering or disease to slow human
progress down or to slow the human race down would the world be
a better place?
If I may be at liberty with the good readers here, I dare ask in
the big picture on a cosmic level why are there airborne
illnesses and airborne diseases in existence? What good are such
phenomenon on earth? If I look at other animals besides the
human species it seems easy to me: I can't help but think
diseases occur when and because animals are overpopulated or
their habitat isn't big enough or healthy enough just like a pet
in a terrarium, and then microscopic entities take over in the
form of diseases or viruses that somehow curtails their
lifeforms. I learned this as a child when keeping small pets.
Because of education coupled with innate experience I kept
creatures alive and they thrived from the environment and
atmosphere I played a hand in.
All I know is for me the mask becomes a habit and its not so bad
once ya get used to it considering the alternative.
There but for the grace of the mask go I,
The Masked Man
P.S I want to share something about myself with you. I am
actually a hedonist in a sense. I live a life that seeks
pleasure. I tend to take the path of least resistance.. I am
somewhat lazy in that I don't like to do work unless I have to
and I despise all suffering and avoid all pain. One might think
this would lead to a life of vices such as drinking, drugs and
seeking pleasures unlimited but on the contrary it does not.
Because I like pleasure I don't drink because of the problems it
gives me such as social conflict, liver problems, etc and
whatever pleasures I do seek never backfire on me. I wear a mask
because it is too pleasurable having a body light and happy free
of disease or pesky viruses. I am such a clever hedonist in that
I only trouble myself with necessary things that benefit me in
such a way that I have the most enduring pleasures rather than
temporary fleeting pleasures because of my life choices and
masked way of life. There is much pleasure in health and safety.
So any way I am not really a saint but rather a hedonist that
uses the mask ;)
.
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Re: Pennsylvania - UPMC hospitals institute masking requirement
By: Masked Man Date: February 13, 2025, 9:24 pm
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There's so many issues.. it would just be easier to mask.
I thinking legally:
If somebody gets hurt on the job because somebody doesn't give
them the proper tool or something that someone can sue the
establishment or person in charge.
Likewise a doctor or nurse gets hurt on the job because they
didn't have the proper safety gear on and breathed in dangerous
particles that maimed them for life or left them with a
disability can they sue?
I remember when AIDS was new. Maybe A person with AIDS would
tell their partner and they would deal with the tragedy
responsibly and abstain from certain practices just like anybody
in an intimate relationship where one person would get sick and
the other would have to take precautions from getting sick...
...and then there were some rare dubious instances where
somebody with AIDS that knew they had AIDS didn't care if they
infected others and had encounters where they actually infected
others and there were steep legal penalties for knowingly and
willingly infecting another person with AIDS..
...How is giving someone AIDS this much different than people
who knowingly infect others with covid now that we are aware of
many many long term repercussions and longterm ill effects from
having caught covid through many legitimate studies that are
available?
If doctors and nurses know how covid and other airborne diseases
and illnesses get transmitted and are aware of all the various
preventative measures for preventing it why would they skip
certain precautions any more than they would skip steps in not
transmitting AIDS? Likewise doctors and nurses don't have any
way of determining who has an airborne disease and airborne
illnesse that they haven't diagnosed yet so isn't it a
prerequisite to have the mask on in advance of pre diagnostics?
Who knows what disease or illness anybody has in the waiting
room so wouldn't it make sense to mask in advance for the
prospective as of yet diagnosed disease?
Since no one knows in advance what they are transmitting to each
other they would be responsible for an undetermined unknown
diseases or illness being transmitted from maskless patient to
maskless patient or maskless staff to maskless patient, and/or
maskless patient to unmasked guest etc.
For example guy walks into hospital.healthcare establishment
feels like he's gonna die.. has huge headache, congested, maybe
fever, throat hurts.. so he doesn't know maybe it's
Tuberculosis, Pneumonia, covid, might be influenza.. could even
be bird flu if he's a farmer or just happens to somehow get it
human to human .. he might actually have more than one thing..
so he comes into the waiting room next to everybody else
coughing and sputtering and everybody just breathes it in!? lol
I mean Is that the great safety plan for the clients , doctors,
nurses and staff alike until somebody diagnosis the poor sick
possibly highly contagious fellow?
How can one know whether to mask or not knowing what illness
that undiagnosed person walking into the establishment has to
begin with? pray tell.
You have to mask in advance,
The Masked Man
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Re: Pennsylvania - UPMC hospitals institute masking requirement
By: Masked Man Date: February 14, 2025, 5:43 pm
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Masked Man Caveat statement:
I am in strong disagreement with professional healthcare's weak
stance on precautions such as masking. I think its a slap in the
face to science, medical studies and an insult to humanity not
to protect ourselves with every measure we have in the face of
the data that keeps pouring in about the repercussions of covid,
the current school closures, bird flu pandemic among several
species, and hospital overcrowding and grievances in healthcare.
We are in a dire state and to me the lack of masking is
appalling in the face of airborne disease and airborne
illnesses.
In response to lack of Mask mandates in healthcare I say fair
warning:
Not wearing a mask around airborne diseases and airborne
illnesses is the equivalent to walking around the jungle with no
protective boots and pants on and letting yourself get bit by
exotic rare poisonous snake after snake just because you think
you have the antidote.
Don't be caught with your mask down around a mystery disease in
the 'qudeemic" of viruses(viruses in the plural form) doctor!
The Masked Man! :)
P.S. Dear Doctors,
There mask is totally non invasive medical solution to blocking
and filtering out microscopic entities that ride on droplets and
vapors from people's breath including doctor's and nurses
breath. It doesn't require the injection or administering
intravenous drugs into the subject.. it requires no invasive
surgery or alteration of the subjects DNA or anything. The mask
is pragmatical solution to ward off a variety of airborne
diseases and airborne illnesses from strangers that walk into
the waiting room with mystery diseases as well as having the
ability to help drastically prevent patients you know from
exposure to these illnesses and diseases that you are met with
in you establishment. The mask carries no long term side effects
and is a great solution and an aid in helping one honor the
Hippocratic oath as well. It helps protect the whole of your
clients and staff and not just the part.
Doctors, please tell your clientele that might not be sick or
might be sick to mask up and your guests and staff so I can feel
safe upon entering your establishment if I ever need to. We wear
masks for you and my old lady is 78 years old and tough enough
to wear a mask... please make people wear masks because you are
supposed to protect against airborne illnesses and airborne
diseases and make things safe and be patient oriented. Please
take into account the latest news and data about the current
challenges we all face with viruses and take into account the
fact masks can greatly reduce the contagious diseases in your
establishment. Please do this in the name of your profession and
base it on medical ethics. I believe airborne illnesses and
airborne diseases are the occupational hazard in your
occupation. Maybe you could base your treatment on medical
studies?
Doctors,
Here's a link to some Masking studies that might help save lives
SUMMARY:
Masking Studies
An archive of studies on masking.
Source 1. Data Report Info
LINK:
HTML https://www.datareport.inf
o/masking-studies/
How can anyone argue against the safety masks in its ability to
prevent airborne illnesses in the healthcare profession!? That's
like the equivalent of being in the birth control business and
arguing that condoms are of no value.
Ya wear a mask based upon the same principles and reasons you
wash your hands and clothes.... its the germs coming from
people's faces that are super small invisible to the eye some of
which land on you but mostly are suspended in the air where they
can easily be breathed in. You wash your hands for those germs
and viruses so why don't ya include wearing mask for the same
germs that reside in the air as well? Do they teach this about
airborne diseases and airborne illness in medical school? Don't
they teach ya about aerosols and droplets like diagrammed in the
attachment at bottom of this reply?
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