I'm in hospital for a surgery. Staffs don't wear masks. Many of them cough. In the recovery room there is free unlimited access for visitors and you're of course with other patients. Another patient here has three visitors. No masks. No distance. No barriers.
I am trying to discharge myself because I'm legitimately worried I'll catch something from someone else (if I haven't already).
Hospitals don't care about COVID. Why would anyone be surprised about the general population when the most medical institution there is doesn't?
A year ago I got admitted to the hospital. After a blood test it turned out I had COVID, and despite the staff being well aware of this, most of them didn't care to wear masks around me during my stay there.
When I was sent home to recover, they called me a taxi, because during the holiday period no one else was available to come pick me up. One of the staff helped escort me to the front of the hospital where the taxi driver was waiting for me. When he saw that we were wearing masks, he asked the staff if I had COVID, and she said yes. He got very angry at them, because apparently they thought it wasn't important enough to mention to him. They immediately scrambled to get him a mask. The fucking taxi driver was more worried about COVID than the hospital staff. 
Sounds about right. I had some staff members not keeping the mask on on the surgery preparation area with my body being prepared to be cut open. I think people overestimate medical personnel caring by an order of magnitude.
There are nastier things than COVID that you can get in a hospital.
https://www.who.int/news/item/06-05-2022-who-launches-first-ever-global-report-on-infection-prevention-and-control
The math on this is points to about 4 in every 1000 hospital admissions that end up dying of infections contracted in the hospital setting.
What works for COVID also works for many other things. Unfortunately, most of the world learned fuck all from the pandemic.
Hospitals only care about getting paid. The more victims, the bigger the haul.
Update:
The one single patient had 7 different visitors, no masks, tiny room. One of them put on a mask after everyone else left. Two of them were coughing. :/
This is crazy to me. I work in a hospital and everyone in every OR is required to wear masks, scrubs/bunny suits (sterile white disposable suits), shoe covers (or have shoes specifically only for use in the ORs) and sometimes gloves if there are circumstances that require it. We've also had requirements for everyone who works with patients throughout the hospital to wear a mask since probably October/November.
Edit: the OR rules have been the same since I started working there almost a decade ago, not just since COVID
Nah fuck that. I've never had a common cold that had me sick for 5 months. If I laugh I have a coughing fit. If I breathe out all the air in my lungs I feel shit coming up and have a coughing fit (and sometimes vomit). I've been fucked up for half a year already, how am I going to move on?
Just because you decided to snap your fingers and say "it's over" doesn't mean it's fucking over. I don't wish what I have been suffering with on anyone.
