THREAD: I'm been sitting on this cognitive dissonance for going on two years now, so here's a little thread. As my regulars know, our son has cystic fibrosis. As a result, "normal" things can be extremely dangerous to him, such as naturally occuring bacteria in soil, water, 1/
2/ and colds, flu, etc. When kids w/ CF exposed to bacteria, they often colonize it in their lungs for life, which starts a loop of inflamation, infection, inflamation, etc. Some CF bacterias are extremely dangerous & lead to quick decline possibly death & prevent transplants.
3/ And CFers need to be very careful of exposure to other CFers b/c they cross contaminate each other. So as could be expected, doctors offices & hospitals are riskier for them. We did our research & therefore about 2 years before the CF Foundation recommended masking at
4/ hospital settngs we would have DS (but not us unless we were sick) where a mask for appointments. After CF Foundation recommended masks we researched more to determine best type & determined from scientific research n-95 made sense.
5/ About 5 years ago, DS wore his n95 mask when he saw his GI specialist & in the office notes the doctor noted he was wearing a mask. There was no reason to do that expect as a "judgement" that it was inappropriate. Yet now I'm watching all the medical experts telling kids
6/ to mask up all the time for something that is 1/100th as dangerous to the kids as hospital-borne bacteria is to DS & DS getting sick likely means hospitalization, surgical procedure to install PIC line, 3 weeks of IV antibiotics & 4 x day of airway clearance & inhalled meds.
7/7 Yes, we were cautious and still anxious but my goodness not a fraction of what I'm seeing the entire world do now under the guise of fighting COVID. I'm talking huge cognitive dissonance.
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