Thread by @DavidElfstrom

This is bullshit policy @UHN. You won't permit a person to wear a clean N95 *respirator* (not mask) in your facility. You won't even allow someone to place your gappy surgical mask over top. Other health care facilities have no such problem. It's indefensible & unacceptable. /1

Does a manufacturing facility say to a visitor "oh hey, take your safety shoes off and don our loafers".
Likewise, I've never been asked to remove my own provided hard hat in exchange for a bump cap or unprotected, as long as it meets sanitary requirements. /2

And you double down on it, even on April 22nd 2021. Can your Entrance Screening Working Group see their own logical fallacy?
If UHN wishes to maintain this policy, it should provide from a selection of pre-approved respirators. Charge a nominal fee if you must. /3

PROOF (Dated April 23, 2021) UHN is actively against double-masking, which would otherwise at least allow for a visitor to keep their own respirator and wear a surgical mask over top. /4

This is quite a change from five months ago. Seems they were able to check masks for certain standards back then. HT @JPScoopZ /5

Trillium Health Partners recently revised its policy after similar outrage: /6

https://twitter.com/SabiVM/status/1378000437555691524?s=20

See, how hard can it be, @UHN?

https://twitter.com/THP_hospital/status/1378373648239759360?s=20

When Public Health Ontario is too intellectually invested in #DropletDogma to admit #COVIDisAirborne, UHN's asinine mask policy is the result.

https://twitter.com/BertMac00600145/status/1387540526891741189?s=19

Interim response. Thank you @KevinSmithUHN.
HT @Billius27

https://twitter.com/KevinSmithUHN/status/1387571573171830785?s=20

UPDATE: The most egregious part about "MUST" wear the medical mask has been replaced with "should", and a warning about counterfeit products added.
I'll call that a win.

https://twitter.com/UHN/status/1387884944735838211?s=20