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Originally Posted by Firebot
Alberta is one of the last provinces to drop the mask mandate for hospitals and this is the wishes of the nurses union, which should be respected considering what they went through in the pandemic.
As GordonBlue stated you can still continue to wear masks yourself, and ask your health care provider to do so.
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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Do you have a source on that? I’m not saying it’s not true I honestly just haven’t heard anything about that.
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Originally Posted by Firebot
It's in the link?
Heather Smith, president of the United Nurses of Alberta, said nurses in the union expected the continuous masking restrictions to be lifted, anticipating it would likely happen sometime after the provincial election.
"It's hopefully a safe time to do it," she said. "I guess we will find out over time whether or not this was the right moment."
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I'm pretty "meh" about it and okay with mask mandates ending at this stage but come on, that quote is not the nurse's union saying that this was the wishes of the union.