Just sent this to all staffThere will come a time when the masks come off. I recommend everyone consider for themselves, individually, what milestones would make you personally comfortable with seeing an unmasked patient, and what would make you personally comfortable not wearing a mask yourself. We value everyone's health and safety, but we also value a return to normalcy and we need to be cognizant of the point where the mask ceases to be safety equipment and becomes a teddy bear. Is it case counts? Is it percentage vaccinated? We've had it easy so far because the enforceable bare minimum was adequate to our needs. The enforceable bare minimum is now "nothing" so whatever our "something" is we need to be able to justify it, and we need to be ready to let go of it when we can't anymore.
I actually laughed out loud at the teddy bear line, because it's exactly the type of thing that I would want someone to say to me and also exactly the type of thing I could see a bunch of oversensitive types (such as you might find among doctor's office staff) having a pissy fit about. It's perferct.