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leighbythesea2

(1,200 posts)
Fri May 15, 2020, 06:59 PM May 2020

HC Frontline in W Mich Sends Guy on his Way w/o Note

This story comes from my best friend of forever- who I talk to often these days.
She's a paramedic working in an urgent care. Her twin works same hospital org as ER nurse. Their sister is in Boston as an ICU nurse.
She was screening at the urgent care. Given west Michigan can be quite conservative, she's been getting a fair amount of attitude from some coming in.

They direct people thru a checkpoint for a screening for Covid.
And have them park their car and wait in it for treatment.

Someone else screened a man and said he was very surly. He wanted a note that his anxiety is so bad he can't wear a mask on his face. That it creates anxiety.

That nurse forgot one thing, a pulse ox reading.
My girlfriend goes out with the finger clip and nicely asks can she get his oxygen level. He refuses.

Next up is the Dr. All have discussed this guy at this point.

The Dr. goes out. He said in summary to the rest, he saw the guy had the governor's orders for the state printed, the portion about mask wearing highlighted, and the whole thing laminated.
Essentially this guy was going to walk around with his "card" and tell everyone he didn't need a mask because he had a drs note.

The Dr. told the guy there was no history of anxiety anywhere in his medical chart and he was emphatically not going to give him a note----"in the end", that is. It wasn't a fast process.

My girlfriend said they were so busy it just "so happened' the whole thing kept the guy there two hours.
Or maybe it was another reason.

Anyway, don't mess with the frontliners.
Oh and this is the friend who went a week with one N95 mask.
I got her more through a source.

These people are tired of morons. And their hateful stance on mask wearing.


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HC Frontline in W Mich Sends Guy on his Way w/o Note (Original Post) leighbythesea2 May 2020 OP
All required to wear masks in our office (we do federal fingerprinting for DOT), so 'essential'. Volaris May 2020 #1
Sigh leighbythesea2 May 2020 #3
This need to be seen - get thee to the greatest page malaise May 2020 #2
wonder who told him stillcool May 2020 #4
Maybe leighbythesea2 May 2020 #6
Check out this jerk who had a doctor's note and tried to enter a local store without a mask. PA Democrat May 2020 #5
And there it is leighbythesea2 May 2020 #7

Volaris

(10,260 posts)
1. All required to wear masks in our office (we do federal fingerprinting for DOT), so 'essential'.
Fri May 15, 2020, 07:22 PM
May 2020

Oh, I dont have one (and this is all bullshit anyway).

Ok fine. Then your stuff can wait till june I guess.

Oh, look...I forgot I had one in the car.

MmmmHrmmm. Good job and fuck you, but come on in then.

I dont blame these medical staffs one little bit for not putting up with this nonsense. Mask Anxiety lol.. fuck right off, Snowflake.

leighbythesea2

(1,200 posts)
3. Sigh
Fri May 15, 2020, 07:32 PM
May 2020

Yes have heard this from others. The miraculous find.

I bought 200 surgical masks thru a former colleague who is importing them (she has a fabric sourcing business and all her mills in china are making them)---she is first donating 250k worth of N95s to hospitals with some big key donors. And a gofund me.

Then shes selling the surgical kind at cost to anyone in small batches. I bought 300 more. Ive been giving them to my friend's hospital, my husband for coworkers, my hairdresser. Anybody.
Because i can hear the "refrain", i forgot or i dont have or whatever.

And the surgical ones arent too easy to find. Amazon sells them, but i ordered just 15 in February and they never came.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
4. wonder who told him
Fri May 15, 2020, 08:14 PM
May 2020

..to go to an urgent care facility to get a note from a Doctor...in the middle of a pandemic. I'm gotten used to the arrogance, and the ignorance, but the selfishness is a tough one.

PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
5. Check out this jerk who had a doctor's note and tried to enter a local store without a mask.
Fri May 15, 2020, 08:17 PM
May 2020

He was obviously looking for a confrontation and then he posted this video on facebook:



Store employees called the police and the guy has been charged on multiple counts.

According to a criminal complaint, police say Nicholas Conley refused to put on a mask, upon entering the Monroeville Giant Eagle on May 1.

Giant Eagle representatives tried to reason with him and tell him he could get curbside or delivery service, and the complaint goes on to say Conley, “was intent on creating a confrontation.”

Conley went on to scream “This is America”, while also swearing and telling employees “Don’t touch me” and "I’m going to sue you."

When Monroeville Police were called, Conley fled the store but was later stopped by another officer at a traffic stop for driving with a suspended license that stems from a DUI.


https://kdkaradio.radio.com/articles/man-who-refused-to-wear-mask-in-giant-eagle-charged






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