Yeah… I’m not immunocompromised but I am high risk due to my lung problems.. a recent visit I went in, wearing a mask. I asked the gal at the desk if they had masks, and she sort of pointed to a table nearby and said if I had someone with me they were welcome to a mask from over there.

I told her ‘no maam, for yall. I have emphysema and I am at high risk of hospitalization or worse if I were to get a Covid infection.’

She told me the staff was vaccinated, and that we could be seated and the dr would see me shortly.

I left. I’m looking for a new pulmonologist but seeing as I’m from a small town in hillbilly Texas my options are few. I may actually be stuck w this doctor.

[–] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In the before-times no staff anywhere, at least that I knew, would ever have refused to wear a mask for a patient request. It is absurd how blatantly politicized this genuinely unprecedented virus is to where all social norms are essentially evaporating to a collective trauma around... a few weeks of very lenient stay-home policies in some places, I guess. We're so cooked lol

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Right? That’s all it took.

I mean frankly, they should be in a mask all day long. EVERY SINGLE PATIENT without exception, by the very nature of the doctor’s specialized services is at increased risk. I wasn’t an exception, I was the norm.

We are absolutely cooked.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

She told me the staff was vaccinated, and that we could be seated and the dr would see me shortly.

This shit right here is why I still view provax libs as just as bad as antivax chuds, just 2 different ways to ignore science and continue the spread

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago

Being pro vaccines isn't the bad part. Being antimask is the bad part. Ideally everyone should be getting vaccinated and wearing masks. If we were forced to pick only one intervention, masking would be the one to choose but we can have both

[–] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

Truly.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 20 points 8 months ago

Yikes. Vaccinated does not mean you can't transmit it. You'd think a medical staff would understand that.

[–] Darthsenio_Mall@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Baller move on your part, hope you're able to find another place

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

This was three weeks ago. Luckily the nature of the visit was just a routine check in, and chance for refills if needed. At the moment my emphysema is managed so the visit technically could have been via phone/telepresence/etc. I called when I got home and got another six months of scripts called in. Hopefully that is the time needed to get a referral and transfer away from this Dr.