This is particularly bad because if I'm at the occupational therapist's, or getting an X-ray or most of the other medical things that can't be done remotely, I can at least be masked myself.
A dental cleaning is on the short list that doesn't work for. (The other I've had in the last three years was an exam by an ENT doctor, who only needed me to uncover my mouth for about a minute so he could look inside, and he was properly masked.)
I took the uncomfortable precaution of a covid test yesterday before going to the dentist's, because there's no subjective way to tell whether a particular episode of coughing is a new covid or other-disease symptom, rather than the cough I now have an inhaler from. I took the test for the sake of the dental office staff as well as other patients, and rationally I know it was the right thing to do even if other people are being stupidly careless, but at least the buses don't have signs suggesting that masking is a personal eccentricity.
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Date: 2022-12-22 02:53 pm (UTC)A dental cleaning is on the short list that doesn't work for. (The other I've had in the last three years was an exam by an ENT doctor, who only needed me to uncover my mouth for about a minute so he could look inside, and he was properly masked.)
I took the uncomfortable precaution of a covid test yesterday before going to the dentist's, because there's no subjective way to tell whether a particular episode of coughing is a new covid or other-disease symptom, rather than the cough I now have an inhaler from. I took the test for the sake of the dental office staff as well as other patients, and rationally I know it was the right thing to do even if other people are being stupidly careless, but at least the buses don't have signs suggesting that masking is a personal eccentricity.