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Old 05-07-2020, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by blueash View Post
Thanks for a thoughtful contribution. My issue is that it is impossible to maintain social distancing when you are handing something to a person, and clearly in the photo two people are near each other. The big thing in my mind is that this is a long term care facility. That is the worst place to have COVID introduced.

While the care director is wearing a cloth mask, that is nearly useless in protecting her from catching COVID if she is exposed. Cloth and paper masks are to prevent an infectious person from spreading. So if the food preparer has COVID that mask on the recipient is not of any known benefit. The obligation is on the sick person, even an asymptomatic person, to wear a mask to not be capable of spreading COVID to a nursing home.
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