Even the cabinet attendants have got it!
Actual Fox News screen grab from this morning:
Posted on 03/09/2020 11:12:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
We touch our faces all the time, but it is a real health risk. With the coronavirus outbreak as severe as it is, how do we stop? In this new world, not only is nose picking thought to be gross, so is nose scratching, mouth touching and eye rubbing. All it takes is just one virus to hitch a ride on a contaminated finger and slip into the body through a nostril or a wet part of the face.
Then the virus can latch on, finding a human cell in the throat, nose or sinuses to hijack and destroy, flooding the body with even more copies of itself. In critical illnesses, that one careless touch from an unwashed finger can begin a process of destroying lungs and kidneys and, in a worst-case scenario, trigger septic shock, multiple organ failure and make it impossible to breathe on your own.
And yet, it is still so hard to stop touching our faces. Much of the time it is spontaneous, and we are not even aware of it. One study caught medical students in class touching their faces 23 times per hour on average. “It’s human nature to want to touch your face,” says Dr Otto Yang, an infectious diseases expert at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
There’s a reason for that. Touching our faces may be related to negative feelings – a feeling when we have failed to achieve a goal or are not satisfied, according to a research article published in the journal PLoS One.
Face touching can help us deal with anxiety and discomfort, and may be comforting, the report says. We might think we want to touch our faces because of a perceived itch or to groom ourselves, but research suggests we are actually doing it because we
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We’ve almost got every thread on the same subject.
C’mon, you can do it!
All coronavirus, all the time!
I swear by everything that is holy......when I heard that my face started itching....here at home, in the grocery store, right now as I’m typing this. Yesterday when I got back into my truck at the grocery store, I immediately used my hand sanitizer and dabbed some on my FACE for extra protection. Methinks my mind is playing tricks on me....;)
Is there anything else?
I actually got a note from the doctor saying I wasn't to return to work until a specified date. Half the crew had called out that week.
Two schools were closed, too many students AND teachers sick.
We all survived, only to die by Coronavirus, I guess.
Stanford University just canceled classes after the professor tested positive.
This is our World War 2. It’ll define this next few years for the world.
So we shouldn’t talk about it?
But it’s okay if it was the liquor cabinet because alcohol.
Basically it’s normal health procedure not to touch your face during flu season and to wash hands frequently esp. if you shake hands with others or touch surfaces like door handles/knobs, etc.
We’ve almost got every thread on the same subject.Bring Out Your DeadC’mon, you can do it!
All coronavirus, all the time!
As you wish, Buttercup...
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
Put cayenne pepper on your fingertips. That will train you real fast.
Eh? No car thieves? and why did some of them go back?
Yep. I’m trying not to touch my face to keep from giving myself caroneybaloney, and what happens? My forehead itches, my nose itches, my eyes burn and exude gunk. Next thing ya know, I’ll have a nasty ball of snot in my nose, etc.
DANG!
By all means, talk about it.
“In this new world, not only is nose picking thought to be gross....”
I suppose that the author is a germaphobe amongst a population that teaches its children to literally schiff and pee in the street.
Just READING this, I subconsciously reached and touched my face. How subtle is the news.
750 people died last year from toxoplasmosis, but I’m still gonna change kitty’s box... and then faithfully wash my hands.
don’t go to dinner after changing cat box, wash your hands first
When I was in the Air Force we had to do occasional chemical warfare exercises, when you did those exercises you prayed to God you didn’t get an itch on your face when you had your face mask on. LOL
If you go to the cath lab where they secure your hands down by your side, you’ll quickly realize that you want to scratch your face, your neck, your chin, and your nose almost constantly.
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