Christine
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 31, 1999
I'd be more concerned with transmission happening at a market than in a hospital.
Just curious as you're the second person to mention this: why do you think transmission is more risky at a market than in a hospital? Seriously, I'm not disagreeing with you or the other person who said that, just trying to understand why it might be safer? I definitely *want* to believe that as I'm having a surgery in early March.
When I go to a grocery store, everyone is masked, it's never really crowded and I'm constantly moving and in and out of there quickly. I have no doubt that there are infected people shopping but I'm not near them and if I happen to pass through their "air" it's quick.
I envision being in the hospital, a sitting duck literally for at least 8 hours and being cared for/approached by medical staff they may have the virus and be asymptomatic. And they will be spending time with me. From what I see on the news, unless I'm in a COVID ward, my care providers won't be wearing N95s but may well have the same paper mask on that I do.
So, please do tell me why you think the hospital is safer than any other indoor place. Maybe I'm just missing something obvious.
I am really hoping that by early March, all of my health care attendants for that surgery will have been vaccinated.