more laughter... including the middle aged woman in question.
Then most every staff member there gave some small comment or nod to being "over all this anyway."
It was just very refreshing and revealing that even basically all the people mandated into these things in the medical field are just laughing at how stupid it all is.
Insist on wearing a mask while they look at your teeth. Really play up the insanity.
I should mess with them, but my Dentist is actually my former college roommate and he knows me too well to take any crap from me.