NHS worker quit when she was stopped from wearing face mask

This must be a gutwrenching choice for persons who have dedicated their professional lives to helping others be well.

Lately I've seen numerous stories about health workers being demied PPE usage by administrators, or U.S. residents being told by government officials that masks weren't helpful to the general public.

Those stories seemed to be one sided; the only justifications from the other side seemed to be in the form of quotes from press releases, not interviews discussing their reasons.

Anyone know of articles that offer some balance?

I do wonder whether the western refusal to wear masks is more cultural & political rather than rational. Cultural because we don't have a culture of wearing masks and so changing our culture so you aren't judged is difficult, political in that it's politically difficult for public officials to say both "Masks do help stop the spread of this disease" and "We don't have enough masks, and we need them all for high risk workers & sick peeople so please don't try and get masks"

Couldn't she just have kept wearing the mask and if she got fired sue for wrongful termination?

One dumb supervisor. Sad and oh so common. But not really newsworthy?

In the middle of February Heathrow staff was ordering travelers disembarking planes from China to remove face masks because they could scare the population.

Anyone got an idea why this story was scrubbed from the front page so fast?

Seconds story I've seen wiped without reason just today and I haven't even been on here much.