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Right, blame me, a perfectly healthy person, that uses ppe including gloves while outside of the house instead of the at risk individual that should remain indoors.
You may be healthy, but you can be a carrier who infects others. You may be healthy, but you may still need medical help when and if you get it. You may be wearing PPE, but unless you change your gloves after everything you touch, every person you’re encountering, and disposing of them properly, you’re wasting your time as you’re using PPE incorrectly, are no safer than the people without gloves, and you are now a detriment of you and those around you, not to mention wasting PPE that is of vital need to hospitals on frivolities that suit your own comfort while defying orders to self isolate.
One box of 100 pairs of gloves provides 75-100 patient individual patient interactions. That is almost everybody served on a single day in my infusion unit. Cancer patients, arthritis patients, people with immune disorders not being served because you bought and are holding on to equipment so that you can defy the orders of every major medical organization and world leader in the world.
Is you popping on your gloves to go putter around WalMart really more important than the basic functions of a chemo unit? Would you feel the same way if it was your spouse, your child, your grandchild was taken off chemo and now somebody you love is facing down death or disability? When you go to roll into your hospital with Corona and they tell you to tough it out at home because they have no equipment, will you be indignant that now you can’t get basic care? Or will you be Ok with being sent home to infect your family, maybe recover fully, maybe not, because this was a problem exacerbated by your own choices?
It isn't their decisions to leave quarantine that exposed them to the virus. It's me. It is all my fault. Guess what? I'm not going to be walking into your home. You are safe there.
Yes, you will be walking into people’s homes. That gas pump you used with your contaminated hands could have been used by the Schwan’s driver I’m relying on for food. The “it’s just allergies” cough you found out 10 days later wasn’t allergies that festers in the air could be breathed in by my husband at work and come home that way. The door you grabbed with your filthy gloves could be how my medical courier gets it and transmits it onto the package of my meds.
Everything you touch, everything you breathe on, every person you talk to could come into my house. Every day you walk around is another day I stay home, another day I can’t work, another day further from when I last got chemo, and another day longer I deal with no treatment for something that I could get treatment for quite easily before people with your mentality decided they are immune to basic medical knowledge.
My chemo? Done. There are no supplies because they’re going to Corona demand because people won’t protect themselves and others. That impacts me forever, even though I’m not on any state’s Corona statistic.
Unless you plan on paying for my Colostomy bags, my surgery bills, or supporting my family should I die, it is your social, ethical, and moral responsibility to deal with the “inconvenience” of staying in your own home and not being part of the problem.
Do not go for a walk. Do not leave the house. Do not contact people, and you will be at lesser risk. I am not at fault if you decide to leave your home, and do not practice correct disciplines.
Lesser, not “zero.”
And yes, the defying of medical best practice and contributing to spread is your fault. Others who feel like you until they get sick and drain medical supplies are at fault.
And since you clearly didn’t read my post, as a cancer and invisible illness survivor who can no longer get chemo due to shortages of gloves and medical supplies, I did everything right and Corona is still screwing up my life and health. It is ignorant and selfish to say otherwise.
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