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Gary Tetz I don’t want to put a hex on the situation with a premature celebration, but the downward trajectory of the pandemic makes it appear that long-term care people can finally perhaps maybe start discretely considering the conceivable possibility of potentially mulling over the notion of feasibly working someday in a facility without wearing a mask.  For many, if my own experience is a guide, the eventual removal of this requirement will be extremely disorienting at first. Earlier this week, in a non-facility setting where mask rules were recently relaxed for vaccinated staff, I...

Aren’t you glad that when the survey team shows up at your long-term care facility, they don’t horizontally immobilize you, place an assortment of sharp tools in your mouth to prevent you from defending yourself and talk directly into your ear about everything you’re doing wrong?  Gary Tetz In other words, aren’t you glad they aren’t dental hygienists? While I lay helpless in the dentist’s torture chair recently, my hygienist took the opportunity to lecture me in a measured, earnest, condescending way that was part soothing National Public Radio morning host and...