It’s surreal. There are nurses and techs that come in that are masked and put on gloves to deal with me, then other techs and nurses unmasked and will touch me bare handed. Those are the professionals I do trust. Medical protocols sadly are like zero tolerance policies and the worst part is they lead to little or no thinking. There is a near catastrophic deficiency in thinking.

When I first got here at the hospital I was treated in isolation protocol which meant nurses gowned up snd masked around me because the facility I left had bed bugs.

After about a week of this they realized they didn’t even have to do an isolation protocol. Bed bugs are not deadly, but the infestation is costly to eradicate. Once they got rid of my clothes and showered me, the bed bug problem was solved.