I closed my office down last Wednesday and don't care what the order says or what's legal/covered. I flat-out don't feel that massage is essential for life. We are not essential employees no more than PTs, OTs, or SLPs. My opinion, but anyone who is still practicing is putting themselves and anyone they work on at significant risk. It is being estimated that 84% of us are now potential carriers. We are health care providers but we are NOT essential, and as health care providers we absolutely have to do everything in our power to uphold the health of our communities.
We are healers and our aim and intention is to do no harm. Seeing anyone right now simply doesn't adhere to that intention. The potential risk of doing harm to ourselves or our clients is way too high.
As in the rest of life, we all make decisions based on ratios. In this case, we have to determine our own acceptable ratio of risk to benefit. Considering the risk of this particular scenario is death or extreme sickness, that's not a risk I'm willing to take.
- Chrissy Zeltner
