PPE is a barrier. If you reuse or touch that barrier, you defeated the purpose. Cutting raw chicken while wearing gloves? If you touch the glove AT ALL on the outside you have no contaminated your hands. No problem, just wash them. This is why most restaurants don't really care about gloves but REALLY CARE about washing hands.
That mask? It's collecting not only whats being sucked through it but what you're exhaling. Fighting off a flu but asymptomatic? You're rebreathing that virus. Getting enough of that virus in you is how you actually get sick. If you change the mask every little bit, it's not a problem.
The mask also requires you to touch your face more. If you're not washing your hands BEFORE and AFTER removing/putting on the mask? You're not doing anyone ANY good.
Go get some non toxic ink. Put a few drops on your hand. Put on your mask. Look at your face. You can see how easy it is to spread contamination. Without the mask, would you have put any filth on your face?
The problem is, no one wears them correctly or changes them frequently enough. No one is washing their hands every time the touch the mask. Also, the mask doesn't cover the entire face, so if the virus is on your hands, and you touch your eye, for instance, that's a problem.
What's funny is, until last month, all the "experts" were saying masks did no good for the general public. Then suddenly, they did a 180. No evidence for it, but they suddenly started recommended or forcing all to wear them. This is about control and social engineering, period.
I was one of 2 people qualified to work in the reactor compartment. That contamination is the shit that if it gets on your skin, you're gonna have a bad time. The concept of preventing contamination IS EXACTLY the same except radioactive isotopes can embed and be far more permanent than washing that shit off with dawn.
I'd like to take someone's mask after 2 days of use and set it in a warm environment and see what kinds of mold grow to prove the point. We did a science experiment in 7th grade:
Brush your teeth. Take a swab of your cheek and put it in petri dish. Wait a day and look at how disgusting that shit is. Imagine breathing that shit in repeatedly instead of having it not directly put back into your body?
Don't get me started on the people wearing gloves in stores... they're gonna touch that same shit without the gloves later.
I've basically been doing what I've always been doing. I keep a reasonable distance from people. TBH, I don't want to be within 6 feet of a stranger, even before all this COVID shit happened. If I'm sick, I stay away from people. I wash my hands after being out in public, and I try to avoid touching my face with unclean hands. I cover my mouth when coughing/sneezing. I don't like crowded places, and avoid them most of the time.
I think these are all just common sense, reasonable precautions to take during a pandemic or not. Since I work in a hospital, they force all of use to wear useless cloth masks, even when not near people. I'll be goddamned if someone is gonna force me to wear one on my own time. Fuck that.
I agree fully. I just think the militant enforcement and karening is the problem. If I wanna go to a bar or restaurant, fucking let ME CHOOSE if I want to isolate or socialize. I don't need your bullshit telling me I can't socialize or meet new people.
I think senior hours at stores should've been happening a long time ago. I like to get shit done. I'm in and out of the store in 15 minutes max every time I go, I feel bad when I gotta move around an old person but my time is money. I think it's better for everyone if we had this courtesy.
They 100% do.
PPE is a barrier. If you reuse or touch that barrier, you defeated the purpose. Cutting raw chicken while wearing gloves? If you touch the glove AT ALL on the outside you have no contaminated your hands. No problem, just wash them. This is why most restaurants don't really care about gloves but REALLY CARE about washing hands.
That mask? It's collecting not only whats being sucked through it but what you're exhaling. Fighting off a flu but asymptomatic? You're rebreathing that virus. Getting enough of that virus in you is how you actually get sick. If you change the mask every little bit, it's not a problem.
The mask also requires you to touch your face more. If you're not washing your hands BEFORE and AFTER removing/putting on the mask? You're not doing anyone ANY good.
Go get some non toxic ink. Put a few drops on your hand. Put on your mask. Look at your face. You can see how easy it is to spread contamination. Without the mask, would you have put any filth on your face?
The problem is, no one wears them correctly or changes them frequently enough. No one is washing their hands every time the touch the mask. Also, the mask doesn't cover the entire face, so if the virus is on your hands, and you touch your eye, for instance, that's a problem.
What's funny is, until last month, all the "experts" were saying masks did no good for the general public. Then suddenly, they did a 180. No evidence for it, but they suddenly started recommended or forcing all to wear them. This is about control and social engineering, period.
Yeah, that's what is pissing me off about it all.
I was one of 2 people qualified to work in the reactor compartment. That contamination is the shit that if it gets on your skin, you're gonna have a bad time. The concept of preventing contamination IS EXACTLY the same except radioactive isotopes can embed and be far more permanent than washing that shit off with dawn.
I'd like to take someone's mask after 2 days of use and set it in a warm environment and see what kinds of mold grow to prove the point. We did a science experiment in 7th grade:
Brush your teeth. Take a swab of your cheek and put it in petri dish. Wait a day and look at how disgusting that shit is. Imagine breathing that shit in repeatedly instead of having it not directly put back into your body?
Don't get me started on the people wearing gloves in stores... they're gonna touch that same shit without the gloves later.
I've basically been doing what I've always been doing. I keep a reasonable distance from people. TBH, I don't want to be within 6 feet of a stranger, even before all this COVID shit happened. If I'm sick, I stay away from people. I wash my hands after being out in public, and I try to avoid touching my face with unclean hands. I cover my mouth when coughing/sneezing. I don't like crowded places, and avoid them most of the time.
I think these are all just common sense, reasonable precautions to take during a pandemic or not. Since I work in a hospital, they force all of use to wear useless cloth masks, even when not near people. I'll be goddamned if someone is gonna force me to wear one on my own time. Fuck that.
I agree fully. I just think the militant enforcement and karening is the problem. If I wanna go to a bar or restaurant, fucking let ME CHOOSE if I want to isolate or socialize. I don't need your bullshit telling me I can't socialize or meet new people.
I think senior hours at stores should've been happening a long time ago. I like to get shit done. I'm in and out of the store in 15 minutes max every time I go, I feel bad when I gotta move around an old person but my time is money. I think it's better for everyone if we had this courtesy.