Nova Scotia Health
NS health (re)mandated mask wearing in all public health facilities on December 18, 2025.
Currently there are outbreaks of COVID, Influenza A and Influenza B in my local hospital (Kentville), in wards on the same floor as the radiology department.
I had to visit the hospital today for an X-ray and was shocked to see the number of staff who were ignoring this mandate. Of course many patients were, too, but whose example would they follow? One person I spoke to didn't even realize it was a requirement (she was masked herself). She hadn't read the signs, or thought they were left over from the past.
One of the technicians hastily and sloppily masked when he came into the room and pulled it off while walking out.
As I was finishing with the X-ray and putting on my outdoor things. I mentioned my shock to the other (masked) technician. I told her that this lack of compliance is a clear message to the vulnerable and all patients that those staff members don't care. They don't care about us, their patients. And they don't even care about themselves.
So disappointing. But what's to be done? You can't make people care.
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