as small as a world and as large as alone

9:17pm March 22, 2013

80yearoldteenager:

Seeing everyone else get colds and fearing for your life.

And then, despite a sign on my door explaining why any and all chest infections can be life-threatening so don’t even knock if you have anything contagious…

…having to deal with a *licensed LNA* who routinely lies to me whenever she’s sick so she doesn’t get turned away or told to use a mask and gloves. And another LNA whose self-image involves being incapable of getting sick or passing on diseases. So she literally tells me she doesn’t need a mask even when *I* have a cold. Because her ego is more important than whether she spreads my illness to other vulnerable people. And she suddenly gets “allergies” for a week whenever a cold or flu is going around, because getting colds or flus are against her self image.

Can’t imagine how much damage those two have done alone. As in how many they’ve killed for stupid reasons. (They’re health care workers working for very sick people, and are mandated to wear masks and gloves if they or their client is contagious. But they think themselves above the rules. And because their organization is as stupid as they are, they’re considered among the best workers when they’re among the worst for that and many other reasons.)

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