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| Hospital in Ontario suffers Covid-19 outbreak, masks required | |
| By: Steve Date: January 21, 2025, 2:49 pm | |
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| SUMMARY - A Covid-19 outbreak has been declared on the surgical | |
| unit of the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital, a hospital | |
| in the province of Ontario. Visitor restrictions are in effect | |
| for the surgical unit, and visitors are only permitted for | |
| palliative or end-of-life patients. As a precautionary measure, | |
| universal masking is mandatory on both the surgical and medical | |
| units. This includes all areas of the floors, inclusive of | |
| patient rooms, for both team members and visitors. | |
| LINK - | |
| https://www.collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/covid-outbreak-on-collingwood-hospit… | |
| https://www.collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/covid-outbreak-on-collingwood-hospit… | |
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| Re: Hospital in Ontario suffers Covid-19 outbreak, masks require | |
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| By: Masked Man Date: January 21, 2025, 4:47 pm | |
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| [quote author=Steve link=topic=1854.msg2836#msg2836 | |
| date=1737492570] | |
| SUMMARY - A Covid-19 outbreak has been declared on the surgical | |
| unit of the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital, a hospital | |
| in the province of Ontario. Visitor restrictions are in effect | |
| for the surgical unit, and visitors are only permitted for | |
| palliative or end-of-life patients. As a precautionary measure, | |
| universal masking is mandatory on both the surgical and medical | |
| units. This includes all areas of the floors, inclusive of | |
| patient rooms, for both team members and visitors. | |
| LINK - | |
| https://www.collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/covid-outbreak-on-collingwood-hospit… | |
| https://www.collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/covid-outbreak-on-collingwood-hospit… | |
| [/quote] | |
| Just a Masked Man's observation: | |
| To be honestThey call it a precautionary measure but really it | |
| is simply a necessity because they didn't take "precautions" | |
| like masks soon enough... | |
| In reality to read between the lines Collingwood General and | |
| Marine Hospital could be saying they should have worn masks in | |
| retrospect prior to their outbreak..I mean that is the reality | |
| of the matter at hand. I think we all know that deep down inside | |
| a person or facility with an airborne disease would say" we | |
| should have worn our masks".. That's what I think anyway. The | |
| hospital should say " We should have worn our masks ..now we | |
| have a horrible outbreak which could have been avoided by | |
| wearing masks and that is why we are wearing masks now! because | |
| we were wrong" because that's the truth and reality of the | |
| matter. | |
| Excellent idea to use masks. In this Canadian hospital's case, | |
| These masks aren't so much a precaution but rather a necessity | |
| now that they are experiencing the full ramifications of | |
| airborne diseases no doubt. This mask usage is because of the | |
| result of the outbreak. | |
| Now if only the USA and surrounding hospitals in Canada would | |
| follow suit and use masks BEFORE an outbreak they could call | |
| their mask usage 'precautionary' and could actually prevent an | |
| outbreak from happening in advance that would be ideal to learn | |
| from this hospital that outbreaks can happens when people don't | |
| mask. Why wait for an outbreak to happen when one can use masks | |
| as a precautionary measure to protect patients , doctors, and | |
| staff on a routine basis since hospitals deal with airborne | |
| diseases on a regular basis anyway? Why must we wait until after | |
| there is an outbreak to take 'precautionary measures in a | |
| hospital setting which is prone to airborne diseases that burden | |
| any population of peoples? | |
| If a mask prevents airborne diseases why lift the mask mandate | |
| once the number of airborne diseases begin to become reduced | |
| because of the mask? | |
| Would we abolish a helmet law once it started to reduce the | |
| number of head injuries for motorcyclist and bicyclists anymore | |
| than we would abolish a mask law that could routinely reduce and | |
| eliminate many airborne diseases that people spread as they | |
| enter the hospital doors on a regular basis? | |
| Like I said , They call it a "precautionary" measure but really | |
| it is simply a necessity because they didn't take any and enough | |
| "precautions" like masks sooner. They really don't have a right | |
| to call them precautionary measures anymore because of their | |
| outbreak.. these masks are a necessity in their case. It would | |
| be much more desirable to wear masks in a hospital setting | |
| without an outbreak going on. Doctors and nurses and staff | |
| wouldn't be burdened or burned with as many overwhelming numbers | |
| of patients if they chose to make everybody wear the mask to | |
| begin with. | |
| It would be much safer and pleasant a workplace if they masked | |
| prior to large numbers of people getting sick and then returning | |
| to place that got them sick...the mask is the lesser of two | |
| evils ... if only they were to mask they wouldn't have as many | |
| repeat customers returning as well as workers getting sick. | |
| The mask is the lesser of the two evils, | |
| The Masked Man | |
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