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April 21, 2021
My first encounter with people wearing face masks was in a hospital. My son was admitted for pneumonia but the doctor tested him for tuberculosis. She apparently botched the assessment of the test results because I observed that medical practitioners who entered his room started wearing face masks. I pitied my son because the medical practitioners seemed to worry about getting sick with TB in our room.
But when we were allowed to check out, I didn’t notice TB symptoms in our child. He wasn’t even coughing. Yet we still brought home the anti-TB medication given to us for free. We planned to follow the doctor’s instruction but there was one problem: Our son vomits when forced to swallow medicines. That was a problem. ....