Mask Requirement for Healthcare Workers to Be Dropped From Monday
The requirement for healthcare workers to wear face masks in clinical settings is to be dropped by NHS trusts from Monday, the Daily Sceptic has learned.
A source within the health service said he learned of this decision from hospital managers and independently from another contact in the service.
At this stage it is unclear whether all trusts will make this change at the same time, but it does appear to be a result of a change of policy higher up.
This further step back to pre-Covid normality should mean masks for patients will also end, either at the same time or shortly afterwards.
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Only to be reinstated come winter, or monkeypox.
So go to the Wayback machine and capture the NHS page(s) that until very recently said that monkeypox was mild and not a concern, and produce it should that be used as a reason to reintroduce masks, etc.
There will be much resistance to this policy in the NHS.
Because the NHS thinks it is a law unto itself
Not where I work. Most staff are sick to death of this meaningless charade now and will only embrace the end of this awful mask mandate. I made a decision right from the beginning never to challenge a patient not wearing a mask, and I routinely tell my patients that they don’t have to wear a mask if it makes them feel uncomfortable. I can’t think of one patient who has chosen to put on a mask at that point! I had already decided that if Drakeford decides to extend the mask “law” for nhs staff at the next review, I would declare myself as a conscientious mask-objector (rather than go around with a mask on my chin). He can go f**k himself.
Can we have an NHS filled with people like you, Helen?
You mean with totally disillusioned practitioners??! Lol
Argh!
I have had 2 NHS appointments recently, one at the GP surgery and one to see a Consultant. The Drs and nurses I came across were downright miserable, off hand and did not like me showing initiative and asking questions and all looked unhealthy. It didn’t give me any confidence and felt like an upward battle. And yet I along with every taxpayer have paid for this service upfront, contrary to what many think it isn’t free. Anyway, my point wasn’t really to have a whinge but to say it seems that quite a lot of NHS staff are disillusioned? I ditto the above we could do with more practitioners like yourself or at least more openly so!
“I along with every taxpayer have paid for this service upfront”
How much have you paid?
According to Stewart, 2700 pounds a year.
You should set up in private practice. You’d have plenty of customers.
I even had a vet insist I wear a mask last year, denying that there was no supporting ‘science’ for their effectiveness!! I’ve since changed vets.
I am sick to death of face masks.
Totally agree there will be a lot of resistance.
Does this include care homes?
Hmmmm… why did my question warrant a down tick? How odd.
Downtickers gonna downtick.
Fear not Tom, we’ve not quite hit the social credit score system. Downthumbs have no detrimental affect on your wellbeing… Yet.
Obvious that Emerald Fox is dutifully doing her job of disliking anything cheerful.
Not me – have just joined this thread.
Possibly the absence of quote marks around the word care?
Can’t bring them back for monkeypox if they haven’t first been removed, can they?
You haven’t been paying attention. Monkeypox masks need to go over the bottom not the face!
So bottom masks and face nappies? Goodness the world is weird.
But only face masks for cows as that’s where the most methane comes out (funny that, I’d always assumed it was the other end)…
So what’s new?
Does that mean farts transmit Monkey pox?
At the same time surely? Patients with masks and doctors without them would be a bit of a piss take, would it not?
No more than the piss take of taxpayers paying a lifelong non negotiable tax for a ‘health service free at the point of delivery from cradle to grave’, and then not being able to access it because ‘reasons’
Indeed. The cost per person of the NHS, per year, is £2,700.
That’s £2,700 per year for each man, woman, child in the country.
A family of 4? £10,800 per year.
Real value for money….
I’m guessing that the anonymous down voter has private health insurance, or is a scrubs clad, PPE toting, tiktok performance artiste.
What a disgrace making patients wear them. I will never forgive the NHS what they have done to patients and their loved ones with their visiting bans and the sheer fascism of their rules during the 2020-2022 insanity
At a cost of £2,700 per person per year.
Being abused isn’t cheap.
But you can’t employ thousands of diversity managers @ £60/70k p.a.and not expect them to find something useful to do, can you? These are creative people needing to express themselves.
If only they thought it within their remit to get value for money. If it really is £2,700 per person per year, they’re paying an awful lot for an 8p mask, which is what most of them are wearing, even if they were wearing them properly, which they are not. But then it is the NHS where I’m told they think it’s perfectly okay to pay £37.00 for a ream of printer paper that costs less than £3.00 in Tesco…
I think we have to accept that human beings are now no longer able to satisfactorily process information.
There is a lot of truth in that statement.
When people are forced to act in ways that clearly contradict their own judgment and they comply, they are essentially suspending their own critical thinking and instead simply obeying. Over time obeying becomes a habit and the ability to think is lost.
I am convinced we are very much living amongst a population that has suspended it’s critical thinking and is for the most part simply obeying.
I agree. And it’s frightening.
Was it ever different? Interesting article on the Beeb last night when Lucy Worsley investigated the witch trials of the late 16th century. They seem to have been instigated deliberately by James VI as a massive propaganda exercise to help his credentials as successor to Elizabeth in England.
Actually, I was thinking the opposite is true.
I grew up in the Cold War when nuclear annihilation was the bogeyman. Then global warming got started – except, at the start, it was global cooling. Nuclear winter.
AIDS kept us all terrified for a few years.
But here we are in 2022, still alive, seemingly – if you ingest the fear porn – against all odds. We’ve had the tail end of covid, war in Ukraine, threats of famine, and now monkeypox. And we haven’t even reached the end of May.
Bogeymen don’t last the way they used to, because more and more of us are looking behind the curtain.
Not nearly enough, unfortunately.
The mask-wearing zombies depress me.
Aids, like Covid never ever frightened me, why would it?
God I hope this is true. I can’t wait.
Next – GPs ditching telephone consultations. I live in hope.
Will they ditch their overt disdain for their patients at the same time, I wonder?
Nah, that was there before. Not going anywhere I’m afraid!
It’s got massively worse over the past few years though! Many of them don’t even pretend any more.
Why not NOW??
It doesn’t affect me because I NEVER wear the damned things.
Note to moderators: the word word ‘damned’ is used PURELY descriptively, NOT as a swear word. These disgusting face-nappies are so steeped in sin that their only place is hell or a museum of the disgusting and disreputable.
Damned right!
Daily Sceptic just mentioned on Dan Wooton’s show (GB News) for breaking this story. Als o mentioned on the show was Smile Free’s petition to end masks in healthcare settings (if indeed this petition will still be needed now):
Sign the open letter: End mask “requirement” in healthcare settings – Smile Free
https://youtu.be/KnyYJToT_4o?t=6585
I just noticed, he called them by their proper name – “face nappies”!
“”This brilliant website run by Toby Young”.
Hear hear!
Good riddance!
Unfortunately in Australia no such luck, and with our brand new socialist government, we’re just waiting for the reintroduction of lockdowns as well as mandated quarterly jabs for everyone.
Stockholm Syndrome alive and well in the antipodes.
I don’t think it’s going to be quite so easy. A few of the mandates have already been struck down.
One can certainly hope there’s enough resistance.
One of the biggest wake up calls for me has been the complete and utter cucked nature of the medical profession.
I knew the medics were far from perfect and beholden to pharma but I never imagined that they would go along with something as terrible as the covid con.
I did have some repect for the medics and had hoped that they would have stood together to call out the BS fest that is covid from the mask, distancing and the obvious dangers of the one size fits all warp speed clot shot.
I really did hope that the medical profession would have stood up as one to resist the imposition of vaccine mandates on care home workers, perhaps even threatening to strike if it was imposed, but not a dicky bird.
I accept that there are honourable exceptions but they are thin on the ground.
All masks in whatever setting were removed in Slovenia over two weeks ago. We are behind in the game.
I am in central Europe now. Most central european countries only dropped mask mandates recently. However, the people here show far less fear than people in the UK. Muzzled people are few and far between. They must have been dying to throw off their muzzles at the first opportunity. Clearly the UK psyops were superior.
Most staff in one of our village food shops have removed their face masks, however, in the other shop across the road they seem to have kept them on. Most people now seemed to have removed their face masks in Finland – a very rough guess of mine, from what I’ve seen for myself, is that 25% are hanging on to them.
It’s hard to say what’s going to happen next, but the EU Vaxx Pass is still running, and you are required to have had a jab within the past 270 days if you want to keep yours valid. How many people want to keep their Pass valid – who knows?
This Pass, and the ongoing ‘vaccination programme’, would seem to suggest that ‘Covid’ isn’t over (the Pass scheme has been extended to June 2023).
Isn’t it suspicious that no ‘new variants of SARS-CoV2’ have turned up recently?
We had to attend our local COVID administration and propagation centre (general hospital) a couple of weeks ago. They actually had a security guard at the main entrance. He started mumbling something about hand gel and displaying his selection of face nappies. I just waved my hand at him, said a firm “no” and we walked past. Everyone else was muzzled inside without exception, but nobody said anything to us about our flagrant disregard for the rituals. The nurse was forced to use a temperature probe and ask “you haven’t had a cough have you?”. What happens if you do have a cough, no treatment?
One gets the impression that the intelligent “experts” know it was a daft idea, but are slowly working out how to get rid of it while maintaining their reputation to some extent. It’s a slow motion movie!
What was this decision based on? The alignment of the sun, the moon and the stars? Why isn’t there an IMMEDIATE discontinuation of masking? is Monday a magical day of some kind? Is the “science” different on Monday? Masks never worked. Isn’t it a shame all these people had to breathe in plastic particles from their blue surgical masks that are now being found deep in their lungs. So the smartest people in medicine wore these masks because? Who knows. And they forced their underlings to wear them because? Science? No, because there isn’t any. There is science that proves there is a CO2 buildup in individuals wearing a surgical mask for prolonged periods leading to headache, nausea and a few other bothersome side effects. There is also plenty of research that proves that no way in hell a blue surgical mask prevents anything the size of this “virus” from being inhaled or exhaled when wearing a mask. Oh well, we live and learn.
“blue surgical masks”, these are surgical splashguards, nothing more. Useful in the right environment, operating theatre etc. filthy face knickers everywhere else.
I ditched my face covering in the summer of 2020 and have refused to wear one since then.
What, you EVER had a face covering?!
I wonder if that includes care homes? And will these also now drop the visitor (LFT) testing requirement?
The only person who tried to tell me off for not wearing a mask in a “healthcare setting” was a dental hygienist who told me I put people like her who worked for the NHS at risk. I asked her if she had any medical qualifications, and she didn’t, and than asked why if she worked for the NHS I was paying her, and she agreed she was a contractor. I asked her to get on with the job I was paying her for and she did.
Well done.
Wonder how she would do her job if you can’t take off your mask for her to be able to access your mouth ….. the stupidity is enormous
About time too, and it should also apply to patients. Mind you I’ve been to Doncaster Royal Infirmary several times in the last few months, not worn a mask, never been challenged. I think people just need to be braver and stop wearing them.
Microplastics From Masks Found Deep in Lungs of the Living
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/05/25/microplastics-from-masks-in-human-lungs.aspx
Damn these reduction in face mask restrictions. Some university professor concluded that face masks on men made them more sexually appealing to the opposite sex and I need all the help I can get.
Not before time.
In one of the most illustrative ironies I have experienced concerning face mask policies, I headed into two shops down my local high street the other day: Boots pharmacy and Specsavers immediately after.
Can you guess which had the face mask requirement and which didn’t?…
No. It was the other way round.
Could someone please verify the source of this article? Not only am I having difficulty verifying it from independent sources but, in the NHS trust where I work, they’ve only in the last week informed us of a change in the mask type we’re required to wear, which they seem to be touting as some sort of upgrade! Confusion reigns here.
I don’t think ñhs trust will get very far if they try to reinstate in the winter.