A friend of mine just went for a Dental appointment...

[brooklynite]

The hygienist won't take an eventual COVID vaccine because...Bill Gates.

The dentist thinks a lot of people have natural immunity, so no need for masks.

[MLAA]

1. Time for a new dental office!

[Miigwech]

7. Amen

[Joinfortmill]

2. Run. Like hell

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. That's nuts

😱

[TheBlackAdder]

4. And you sit next to the hygienist and dentist for 40 minutes, breathing inches from their faces.

[Laffy Kat]

5. I would find a new dentist ASAP. nt

[PCIntern]

6. What state was this in?

As a dentist, I am appalled.

In Pennsylvania if the health board or the state dental board heard this story, the dentist will be shut down in six minutes. That is beyond outrageous.

[brooklynite]

16. Central Brooklyn...

[Orangepeel]

8. my dentist and hygienist wore masks before covid

even in the absence of a pandemic, I don't want them hanging over my open mouth mask free

[spooky3]

18. So did ours nt

[JDC]

9. New dentist time.

[blm]

10. Yikes

[Initech]

11. I'd get the fuck out of there and alert the ADA as soon as possible.

That dentist and his assistant are probably due to lose their licenses with such a reckless disregard for life.

[msongs]

12. haven't seen a dentist without a mask in decades. sheesh nt

[Awsi Dooger]

13. I would have laughed and mocked them for a solid hour

How can anyone trust them to know one tooth from the next?

[Skittles]

35. I think you may put yourself at risk if you did that

[PJMcK]

14. These dentists call themselves professional?!

Or are you foolin’ with us, brooklynite?

(wink)

[cayugafalls]

15. That is some next level ignorance, especially for a medical professional.

Seriously, what are they drinking?

It ain't kool-aid, it has to be something stronger and hallucinogenic.

[marie999]

17. I had to go to Community Care Monday.

Community Care is an urgent care medical center you go to when your VA Clinic is closed or you need medical care that your VA Clinic can not provide. My temperature was not taken before I saw a nurse. Not one doctor or nurse I saw in the building was wearing a mask or gloves. Today I went to a non-VA hospital. A nurse, wearing a mask and gloves, put a mask on me, took my temperature before I sat down outside for her to take my vitals and asked me the usual questions such as did I have a cough and then wrote everything down about my ailments. Then I was allowed to enter the ER. My wife had to stay in the car, she refused to go home, but she never would go home. In the ER I did not see one person who was not wearing a mask and everyone that came into my room was also wearing gloves. Guess where I will go the next time I need urgent care. I do go to my VA Clinic monthly for an INR blood test. That's for people on a blood thinner. They take your temperature while you sit in your car. They ask you the usual questions. Then you drive to a side door near the lab. You sit in your car until they come out to get you. They give you a mask only, one patient at a time enters the building. I will live, but I hit the trifecta, Sciatica flair up, Peripheral Neuropathy flair up, and Pneumonia.

[Ms. Toad]

19. Report them.

If it is not actually prohibited in the state, report them to the appropriate dental board. I'm pretty sure that posture is inconsistent with their guidelines.


ETA: Since Ohio no longer has many meaningful restrictions in place, I am reporting every single violation I find to the health department. At least in Ohio those reports are public information - and given how out-of-touch with reality the mask-slackers are I don't want them to be able to find me, so my reports unfortunately have to be anonymous.

[Ilsa]

20. This right here, asap. nt

[Midnight Writer]

21. Talked to a nurse at the hospital the other day. Same story. No vaccine for her because Bill Gates.

[Skittles]

23. is Bill Gates the new George Soros?

I guess I don't get it.

[smirkymonkey]

28. I don't know where people are getting this crazy notion from, but I spoke to a

life-long liberal friend of mine on the phone about a week ago and she put her nut-case husband on the phone (whom I do not like, and did not want to speak to) and he just went off on how Bill Gates is trying to innoculate everyone in the world and placing microchips in them so he can monitor everyone. It is completely insane.

It was so bat-shit crazy, I just told him to put my friend back on the phone and told her I had a conference call that I needed to attend in five minutes so that I could hang up. He is one of those malignant narcisssistic, gaslighting, sociopaths who has isolated her from the rest of her family and friends. Unfortunately, they now live in Texas and I live in MA, so I can't observe them up close anymore like I could when we were both in the NY area.

I'm really afraid for her, but I am terrified of him so I don't want to go down to visit, despite the many invitations. She is extremely co-dependent and will turn on anyone who dares to say a bad word about him. It's kind of unfortunate.

[Skittles]

34. OK that is just plain scary

I mean, WTF, these batshit insane people are EVERYWHERE now.

[Ms. Toad]

24. So when's her trip out to Lynch's Irish Pub with 15 of her closest friends planned? n/t

[Midnight Writer]

25. Not her. She takes the Covid virus very seriously. She wears a mask to step out to check her mail.

But the Bill Gates thing? I can't explain it. It's inexplicable, like so much of this nonsense.

By the way, she's not a Trump supporter, either. She was a Hillary voter and is going for Biden 2020.

[Ms. Toad]

26. I'm glad we have her vote, but she obviously doen't take COVID seriously

if she's bought into some conspiracy theory about Bill Gates and vaccines.

If she believes that - she's gullible enough that she probably isn't taking other precautions seriously - or isn't understanding them well enough to carry them out.

[Midnight Writer]

29. At any rate, she wouldn't be caught dead in a bar. She is quite religious.

And maybe that's a factor. Religious folk do tend to believe in the unbelievable. That's why they call it faith.

Now that I think about it, if Trump trots out an October Surprise Vaccine just before the election, I won't be first in line for that myself.

[Ms. Toad]

32. For me, it depends on what the research says.

For me to take it, it has to be safe (I probably wouldn't trust some of the new breakthroughs in creating vaccines with the testing that can be cone between now and then), and it has to be effective. The more effective it is, the more willing I am to accept some risk. If it's as ineffective as the influenza vaccine is, it has to be pretty close to zero risk (it better be made using tried and true, well-tested mechanisms). If it's as effective as smallpox, polio, tetanus - I'd be more tolerant of risk.

[Hekate]

31. I'd feel a lot better about this so-far-nonexistent vaccine if Soros or Gates were actually involved

At least they believe in Science.

As it is, count me among those who will not be lining up for Trump Vaccine -- which I predict will be rolled out like a new hotel in October. I think it will be hastily-approved, for-profit, and unsafe. It will be this election's October Surprise.

[Midnight Writer]

33. The joke is, these guys don't need to put tracking and influencing devices in us. That's been done.

It's called the Smartphone, and most Americans carry them around voluntarily.

[Hekate]

36. I've been saying that for years now. The cream of the jest is that WE pay THEM for the privilege...

...of gathering and selling OUR information.

Smartphone does it with techno-toys, and FB does it with games and quizzes you share with your friends.

I say this to people, and they look at me funny. I have an iPhone, and I am aware that they track me. However I have made a conscious and (I hope) knowledgable decision, because I am a person with almost no sense of direction and Siri is a godsend.

[Midnight Writer]

38. And I'm sure these people don't carry credit cards with embedded chips.

[Skittles]

22. um.......not only no but HELL NO

I had a dentist appointment last week, I was very comfortable with the extensive measures they were taking regarding covid....I would steer clear of any dentist talking about "natural immunity".

[hamsterjill]

27. We all have to stand up for our own safety

Like most replies, I’d vote finding a new dentist. But we are going to have to become more assertive about these things. She should have refused to get into the chair unless she felt her safety was being considered. It’s hard sometimes.

I was at Costco several weeks ago and they were pushing the self checkouts. I was in line for a regular conveyor belt checkout. An employee came over and asked me to go to the self-checkout, and I ultimately did. During the checkout process, I was too close to other patrons, I had to insert my membership card and credit card and make selections on a keypad, and I felt unsafe. I promised myself that next time, it will be an assertive “no thank you”. We cannot worry about offending someone right now.

[dawg day]

30. I wouldn't go to a dentist who cared so little

About hygiene. My dentist before all this was fully masked and gloved... treated this like surgery. That's what I want.

[Raine]

37. My dentist has ALWAYS worn a mask and gloves

and I've been going to her for 15 plus years.

[uponit7771]

39. ***50% OF TRUMP VOTERS THINK BILL GATES IS TRYING TO MICRO CHIP THEM!!*** (link)

Yes they're that stupid

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fox-news-viewers-bill-gates-coronavirus-vaccines-tracking-1004415/

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

40. I just went for a "normal" dental appt: They have a new gadget.

It was a clear hemisphere on a flexible hose, moved to a position near my head. It could be a form of "cone of silence". It was to suck up any bits that fly when my mouth is sprayed with water or air, or when the polisher is moving.

Like the "cone of silence", the hygenist couldn't understand anything I said, and I couldn't understand her. The machine made a whirring, sucking sound.

But hey, no cavities were found, no cracked fillings, no nothing.

[Nitram]

41. Dentists are just as susceptible to whacky theories outside their field of expertise as anybody else