“More and more people are questioning vaccines and why people need vaccines,” said Kimberlin, the University of Alabama doctor. “They’re gonna find out pretty soon.”
I used to have a sail boat. One of the most important #safety rules in sailing is "don't sail on a schedule".
What this means is that if you have a destination & a deadline, you will override safety signals (like weather) & travel in unsafe conditions due to deadline pressure. This is how serious accidents happen while sailing.
Planning for sailing puts an emphasis on having a checklist that includes having situational awareness of issues like boat condition, charts, & weather by explicitly checking the marine weather forecasts.
Also you have to be prepared to bail on your destination & schedule if the safety signals change. You have to know where your closest port is to seek shelter if a storm arises.
It occurred to me that the #airbornePrecautions equivalent is "don't be task focused on a deadline".
The need to get a task done by a deadline causes you to lose situational awareness, & accept risk that you would not otherwise accept if you thought your safety plan through ahead of time.
This is exacerbated by the total lack of a danger signal in society right now. No mitigations visible. Out of sight, out of mind.
This bit me yesterday getting a vaccination from an unmasked pharmacist in a small room. I took a risk I should not have, because I lost situational awareness under the drive to get the task done. I never would have accepted that risk in my pre-thought out safety plan. But it just popped up in the middle of the task, & I let it slide because I wasn't situationally aware.
Now, ofc I was wearing #P100#elastomeric so the risk here is relative. My event was ocular exposure during high water mark for community transmission, not being maskless. But it is not a risk I would have taken in a pre-thought through safety plan.
And that's the big deal now. Every little ordinary task needs a safety plan.
It's frustrating. It's exhausting.
When it goes wrong, when the safety signals change, when you get off plan, you have to be prepared to "bail". Halt a task, walk out, cancel, reschedule. Find a safe port in the new storm.
I should have refused entry with a maskless pharmacist. Cancelled, requested accommodation & rescheduled.
This is a kind of risk "velocitization" that happens. I am getting velocitized into one-way masking even during high #community#transmission periods. Everyone else but me unmasked is the new normal.
This is how accidents happen - a bunch of little issues leading to an unwanted, unplanned outcome.
I did the riskiest thing I have done in 3 years today especially given where
I let two people in my house to do an assessment for maintenance work that I had been pushing off for quite some time. It was do it now or lose the resource.
I asked them to wear head strap #N95. They did. They both had beards so the fit wasn't great.
I turned up the 5 HEPAs we own to full. Plus kept the furnance circulation (which has a central HEPA) running full.
I opened the windows throughout the house.
We both wore our GVS Elipse #P100#elastomerics in our own house the whole time.
I left the house empty for an hour post-vist: windows open & #HEPA cranked.
Then checked my #ARANET4 CO2 before re-entering to confirm the rate of decrease of CO2 over the hour to make sure I was getting good ACH.
@thetyee
"Long-term health impacts of viruses is nothing new to public health."
Then they have a very strange way of expressing that risk. Pretty well kept secret in terms of public facing communication and pandemic management.
The #InfectiousDiseases medical director promoting hand sanitizer and hand hygiene while the former surgeon turned Green Party politician talks seriously about #AirborneRisk & #AirbornePrecautions is just about the perfect summary of the #pandemic in Canada.
With the relaxation of the #RCDSO#COVID19 mitigation requirements & protocols it looks like many #Ontario#Dentists are following suit & walking away from precautions they spent time, effort & money to put into place.
So previously Ontario was best in class for #airbornePrecautions. Now, apparently no longer.
Looking for a #dentist in the #GTA if you know of any still maintaining precautions especially N95, room isolation & HEPA.