Why wearing latex gloves during the Wu Hu Ker Fluffle is stupid and worse than useless
/Losing weight might help you survive the flu, but gloves won’t prevent you from getting it in the first place
Because you’re not protecting yourself or others
Kung Flu is a respiratory disease, spread when, say, you touch a sick individual, pick up his cooties and then transfer them to yourself by picking your nose with a now-contaminated knuckle. Latex picks up those germs as readily as bare skin, yet, from what I’ve observed of their behavior, people act as though gloves possess some miraculous disinfectant powers, freeing their wearers to touch grocery carts, then their face, and then a nice fat rutabaga in succession, all without picking up or transferring the virus. That’s just plain ignorant and to the extent it provides a false sense of safety and ecourages reckless contact and neglecting to wash one’s hands, dangerous.
“What’s better than wearing gloves in public? Just wash your hands. Really,” said Carolyn Flietstra, a registered nurse and Holland Home executive vice president of home and community care. “If your skin is intact, the virus will not enter through it. But wash your hands really well.”
“As a nurse, it drives me a little nuts to see people wearing whatever disposable gloves to the grocery store, driving their vehicles, eating food, you name it,” “We've all seen it, maybe you've done it. Here's why it doesn't help keep you safe from the coronavirus.”
Flietstra’s main squabble with the rising use of disposable gloves for everyday activities is people wearing them for long periods of time without changing them as they touch multiple things, from grocery products, to the inside of a purse or wallet, to bags, to the backseat or trunk of a vehicle, to the steering wheel - and maybe even drive-thru food after that.
She says to imagine you’re using disposable gloves to keep paint of your hands while painting a room. Pretend the paint is coronavirus.
“Now pretend you don't take the gloves off when you finish painting, but instead touch other walls, your kids, your face, your food,” Flietstra said. “You wouldn't; the paint would be all over the place.”
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