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<blockquote data-quote="killerpigeon" data-source="post: 3358601" data-attributes="member: 42920"><p>I can understand the thought process. I do agree that EMS personal shouldn't have a monopoly. Things have totally changed though. Where as before, I maybe used an N95 mask once or twice a month at most during flu season, we're now using it 4-6 times a day. Times that by around 600 EMSA crew members just in OKC and Tulsa, and the numbers get staggering. Now times that by all the other EMS agencies, fire departments, and the needed PPE becomes overwhelming. I think also the big reason we're needing so much is we don't know who's sick. In my career, I've always been able to see somebody from across the room and know if I need to don my PPE. It's called the "doorway assessment" in the EMS field. With this COVID, unfortunately, everybody has it til proved otherwise. I'm by no means trying to insult anybody's intelligence here or talk down to people, but being on the front lines of this thing is scary and I don't always feel I have all the right equipment I need to protect myself, my family, or the general public. There has been a couple "eye openning" points in my career. One was when I was working in Colorado during the Swine flu pandemic (H1N1). We were down to less than 50 ventilators in the whole Denver metro area and had just received a shipment of much needed supplies. In the shipment was boxes of adult and kid body bags. That really put things into prospective for me. </p><p></p><p>Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="killerpigeon, post: 3358601, member: 42920"] I can understand the thought process. I do agree that EMS personal shouldn't have a monopoly. Things have totally changed though. Where as before, I maybe used an N95 mask once or twice a month at most during flu season, we're now using it 4-6 times a day. Times that by around 600 EMSA crew members just in OKC and Tulsa, and the numbers get staggering. Now times that by all the other EMS agencies, fire departments, and the needed PPE becomes overwhelming. I think also the big reason we're needing so much is we don't know who's sick. In my career, I've always been able to see somebody from across the room and know if I need to don my PPE. It's called the "doorway assessment" in the EMS field. With this COVID, unfortunately, everybody has it til proved otherwise. I'm by no means trying to insult anybody's intelligence here or talk down to people, but being on the front lines of this thing is scary and I don't always feel I have all the right equipment I need to protect myself, my family, or the general public. There has been a couple "eye openning" points in my career. One was when I was working in Colorado during the Swine flu pandemic (H1N1). We were down to less than 50 ventilators in the whole Denver metro area and had just received a shipment of much needed supplies. In the shipment was boxes of adult and kid body bags. That really put things into prospective for me. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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