What is your reasoning for going maskless?
Mine is that a person I live with a lot has been going maskless. When I go out with them, I feel there’s no point in wearing a mask if they’re not going to. If they catch an illness we’re both going to regardless. I’ve been criticizing people in my head about no one wearing a mask, but I have to admit, now that I’ve been out without a mask I can see the temptation of things “feeling normal.”
When I have a medical procedure where my mask would obstruct medical equipment and where not going through with the medical procedure would impact my health greater than long Covid.
Surgery is performed in clean rooms…right?
I don’t want to know the answer.
Surgical masks (which surgeons in most of the world use most of the time instead of proper respirators) are not airtight, so it is a clean room but everyone in it is breathing out the aerosolized contents of their respiratory systems for the entire procedure.