A lobby group of healthcare workers has warned against the decision to remove face mask guidance in healthcare settings. BBC News has more.
The Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition (SHWC) has written to ministers, claiming “very serious flaws” in changing the guidance.
The group is made up of medical professionals who worked throughout the pandemic. All members have long Covid or another chronic post-viral illness.
Face mask guidance was withdrawn in May in hospitals, dentists and GP surgeries having been in place since June 2020. The decision came after the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 was no longer a global emergency. The Scottish Government said the country had entered “a calmer phase” of the pandemic.
Doctors from the British Medical Association (BMA) Scotland condemned the decision at the time.
The SHWC said healthcare workers were at significantly higher risk of contracting the virus and some have developed post-Covid chronic illnesses. They warned that the decision to not enforce masks in care homes and hospitals was “playing Russian roulette” with staff and patients’ welfare.
The group is demanding the reintroduction of masks in all health and social care settings and a commitment to improving ventilation and air filtration as a matter of urgency.
Data from Public Health Scotland show that an average of 35 Covid cases were reported daily in the week ending July 9th. In the same week, a total of 55 people were admitted to hospital within 14 days of returning a positive test.
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We said when masks came in that we’d never get rid of them. Another conspiracy theory.
Available from Babylon Bee. Already ordered mine.
I said that I would never own one – anothr “conspiracy theory” that remains valid.
Insofar possible, everybody should be making a point of refusing to interact socially with masktards. Ideal would be pelting them with rotten vegetables and eggs in public. They’ll never accept that there’s no dangerous pandemic their talismans protect them from and for as long as single one of them is still disgracing the streets with his presence, Back to square one remains on the table. They’d love to.
Some of them are mentally damaging/senile from what I can see. Some of them are arseholes who deserve ridicule. And then I still sometimes see teenage thug types wearing them, presumably as they are handy disguise.
There are a few who are still genuinely scared – SAGE and the Nudge Unit have a lot to answer for. There are also a fewer few who used face coverings before 2020 – in parts of the far-East it has been good manners to wear a mask if you have a cold for many years.
However, there are a few (mostly young) people who like the idea of concealing their features from other people (and surveillance cameras). Somehow we must make this unacceptable once again. (Yes, I include the Niqab or Burka in that).
Yeah I forgot the Chinese. I don’t care about them or the thug types TBH, other than I would like to see them on a different continent to me ideally. But the virtue signalling adults piss me off.
The ironic tragedy of Saint Boris is that he might have been just what we needed in opposition, instead of government. He might have arugued very effectively about the folly of lockdowns and masks, he would have enjoyed comparing them to face nappies, and probably did privately before he was brainwashed into wearing one, by being shown pictures of masked world leaders. Think of his comment about burkas and letterboxes. (However, with his crassness, he would probably also have said something stupid to discredit himself, like “it doesn’t matter if the bodies pile high, the better half will still be alive”).
And it is ironic that some countries banned the other kind of face covering. I’ve been known to wear a face nappy when sneaking out to remove signs about social distancing, nobody would suspect me then!
For one, I’m tired of people in customer-facing roles acting as if everyone else would be a mortal danger to their health. These either need to unmask or to accept that they aren’t the right people for the jobs they’re doing. I’m even more extremely tired of people fearsomely watching for viruses which could perhaps suddenly jump at them over the edge of their pseudo-facearmour. This nonsense has to stop and the only way to accomplish that is to get them to understand that hiding one’s face is socially unacceptable.
Absolutely, Covid sorted the wheat from the chaff, all wearers get from me is an angry scowl and a look of utter distain, can’t bear to be in proximity
Its fooked…..i watch clips of Thailand… An unbelievable amount of people wearing masks outside, now who in their right mind would wish to pay to be amonst that..
When you talk about mental health.. Be sure to count me in…
This thread is chock-full of science-backed data showing how ineffective/harmful masks are. But the truth is none of this matters at this point in time. The reason no amount of evidence will get through the thick heads of mask zealots is that anyone still intent on wearing them is firmly in established cult territory now and they cannot be reached with reason or logic. They are a lot cause, and shamefully, this obvious applies to a hell of a lot of medical/healthcare staff. You really cannot win an argument against the irrational, no matter what scientific evidence you have in your arsenal. They’ve had 3 years to be red-pilled but they are immune so it’s a pointless exercise. Just nobody comply with the insanity and there’s nothing they can do.
https://twitter.com/AnteMedicus/status/1522627568251330561
What I’ve never understood about the mask zealots’ insistence on the vile things is this – why, if they are wearing their magic masks, should it matter if I’m not wearing one? Unless the masks don’t work, of course…
Yeah I know. Same can be said for the vax though. ”My vaccine will only work to protect me if you get jabbed to protect me too.” There is no logic involved when brains are so addled. You’re better off explaining string theory to Joe Biden.
Do you mean what string is?
Going to Korea in a week. I’m told masks are no longer required on public transport but I assume they are still ubiquitous. I’ve decided to think of it like going to a different planet and not let it get to me. (My sister in law wears masks so she doesn’t have to wear make up!) Enough idiots in England to get annoyed about.
I live in Thailand and pre-convid it was normal to see people wearing masks due to the air pollution – fair enough.
Last night I was sat at a bar when a chap riding motorbike pulled up. Pulled down his mask had a cigarette and put the mask back on again. Me and my friend just rolled ourn eyes and laughed.
Completely. “I’m sorry, I don’t speak mask.” is all you have to say.
Bloody well won’t wear these ridiculous accoutrements again.
The end.
Do these callous fools ever consider the harmful impact wearing these pointless articles have on patients and residents? They can only add to the confusion and anxiety people with dementia already have to live with.
And particularly children and babies. Have they no conception of the psychological harm this causes?
And they’re supposedly the people who care compassionately for others.Lol.
Almost as bad as most teachers/unions.
The multi-layered stupidity of these “medical professionals” is simply breathtaking.
Whenever I feel like I need to go to hospital I seriously wonder whether putting a few leeches on my back might be the better option.
Blood letting was ‘science’ for 200 years. Dumping quarts of blood into bowls was considered ‘medical care’. Another benefit of the ‘Enlightenment’.
Blood letting is still considered science. They just send it to a laboratory to make sure that it’s really blood.
You need to wear a tin hat as well, they compliment each other.
Healthcare group needs to shut the f___ up!
OK. Are these guys open to debate?
If so, what is their evidence on this subject?
If not, then ignore/don’t bother to engage with them. Boot’s on the other foot now.
Personally I think this would have been awesome to have on a T-shirt back in the day…when I was the only one in the supermarket demonstrating bare-faced cheek!
https://twitter.com/CartlandDavid/status/1680841901845491713
No surprise here. This is Scotland where the mask mandate was originally introduced in the middle of Summer when not a lot was going on and the government was unable to produce evidence to support their decision.
“and a commitment to improving ventilation”. They’re Scottish right? Why don’t they just close the door to keep the virus out, and saw about a foot off the bottom of the door to let fresh air in. It’s a well known scientific fact that Scottish viruses only occur 13 inches above floor level, and won’t go through closed doors.
Remind me someone, how many peer reviewed studies told us masking was neither use nor ornament?
Our politicised health police are a threat to humanity.
…what’s funny Neil is that during the ‘con’ I posted literally hundreds of studies while I was posting in the Telegraph comments section….…but there was always one person who had one study, and stuck to it like crap to a blanket…even if you could show it was rubbish….
I realised then that there are people, with absolutely no ‘vested interest’ in the products, but who had become ‘Covid Converts’ to the extent that they would argue black was white….I still don’t understand it!….
And now for some more insanity but from a different angle. Honestly, there are just too many different types of Loon Brigade these days ( what the flip is the ‘antinatalist movement’??? ), it’s hard to keep tabs on them all.
”And so Pepino decided to publicly announce her decision – strategically making the personal political – by setting up BirthStrike, a voluntary organisation for women and men who have decided not to have children in response to the coming “climate breakdown and civilisation collapse”. In doing so, she hopes to channel the grief she feels about her decision “into something more active and regenerative and hopeful”. In just two weeks, 140 people, mostly women in the UK, have declared their “decision not to bear children due to the severity of the ecological crisis”, says Pepino. “But we have also had people get in touch to say: ‘Thank you for speaking out about something that I didn’t feel I could even talk to my family about,’” she adds. Many of these BirthStrikers are involved with Extinction Rebellion, which on Saturday threw buckets of red paint outside Downing Street to symbolise “the death of our children” from climate change.
Pepino says that BirthStrike is distinct from the antinatalist movement (which says that having children is morally wrong because sentient life is so awful), and its aim is not to discourage people from having children, or to condemn those who have them already, but to communicate the urgency of the crisis. It is a “radical acknowledgment” of how the looming existential threat is already “altering the way we imagine our future”. “We’re not trying to solve it through BirthStrike,” she says. “We’re trying to get the information out there.”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/12/birthstrikers-meet-the-women-who-refuse-to-have-children-until-climate-change-ends
Blimey, their site is still up so they must still exist. Very radical and deranged way of thinking;
”Simply put, the BirthStrike Movement is the refusal to procreate until humanity has resolved its own social/environmental/economic issues. If you are serious about changing the current social, economic and environmental climate in our society, BirthStriking will make the most impact!
First and foremost, you are sparing your child from a dystopian existence. Secondly, not having children is the single most impactful decision that a person can make to reverse climate change.”
https://birthstrikemovement.org/about/
If these people aren’t having kids maybe the future isn’t so dystopian after all.
Labour/green voters not breeding is definitely a good thing, isn’t it?
That’s a branch of mankind which won’t be missed after it went extinct.
George Carlin explains this rather fantastically in.. GERMS!
https://youtu.be/l_L6AS1Huno
Wearing a mask is revolting and unhygienic.
Wearing a muzzle broadcasts the fact you’re mentally ill, which is probably why it’s no coincidence that they’re part of the uniform of the trans loonies.
At my local surgery I’m convinced they are still handing out masks mainly because one of the receptionists has a thing about it. I just said ‘exempt’ and sat down. She said ‘sorry’, hah!
There are so few people who wear a mask these days, where I live, that it’s rare for me to speak to anyone wearing a mask. But at the time when a lot of people wore them, I would often have to move my head closer to anyone speaking to me through a mask, so that I could hear what they were saying, which surely defeats the supposed purpose of wearing a mask.
I’m a little bit hard of hearing at at times, like many people growing older, it’s not uncommon, so maybe – whether we can hear people speaking through a mask or not – we could all have (temporary) imperfect hearing and move closer to the person speaking through a mask, and ask them to repeat and move very close to hear them better, etc, see if that discourages people from wearing a mask!
Personally, my worry would be more about putting my health in the hands of data-denying people impersonating health experts who stick to scare dogma against all contrary evidence.
When I worked in the NHS the magic formula was ‘bare below the elbows’ (and hand washing between every patient interaction). I don’t see the doc in the BBC article picture demonstrating this, and I wouldn’t care to have her hair shedding over me, either.
I think I’m probably done with orthodox medicine now.
Sadly as a type 1 diabetic, I can’t ignore the filth.
Perhaps lots of us could send a link for the Cochrain review to Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition (SHWC). This is political bullying and not about health. Either that or they are incredibly ignorant. Probably both!