The sign many left wingers have subconsciously accepted moving right on covid and embraced lowering public health standards is when people seem to think “masks should be mandatory in healthcare settings /airplanes “ is somehow a radical position to take in an ongoing pandemic
its so fucking weird because "masks in healthcare" should be the default all of the time. Doctors and nurses are literally employed to go from sick person to sick person, treating immunocompromised people especially often.
It should have been mandatory BEFORE covid
Also, current wait times to see doctors are pretty bad (at least in America, cannot speak to there rest of the world though I've heard it's bad all around) and a doctor getting sick means dozens of patients have to have their appointments moved, some now needing to wait months longer for critical care, so doctors should be required to wear masks when they're working so they have a lower chance of getting sick and fucking over their patients especially the ones who routinely interact with actively sick people.
Wow! It's almost like wearing a respirator (both to keep from spreading illness to others and to prevent yourself from being infected) is a radical act that helps to solve the root issue of communicable disease with a low-cost, efficient, readily avaliable piece of technology, and by addressing the uncomfortably ever-present risk of spreading disease in our overcrowded urban society, we help workers stay on the job, keep doctors practicing, keep pilots and train drivers alert and ready to handle emergencies, keep children from developing loads of chronic illnesses that add further stress to already overtasked medical systems, etc. etc. etc.
If you consider yourself radical and you stopped masking because Joe Biden gave you permission or whatever, you can always course correct and start masking again so you'll be practicing what you preach instead of coughing the same covid on everyone as literal fascists.
