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To: hal ogen
Especially if you take the mask off with gloves still on your hands, or before washing your hands if you don't wear gloves. Otherwise, as long as you wear gloves and take those off as soon as you enter your car (gloves should always be the first off), you should be fine. And roll the gloves inside out when peeling them off.
"If you “took off the mask”, couldn’t there be virus on your hands and in the car?"

347 posted on 04/09/2020 5:48:38 PM PDT by Thud
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To: Thud

A good shower practice is to wash your face with your bar soap be fore washing your butt.


387 posted on 04/09/2020 6:55:50 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic #godwins)
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To: Thud; hal ogen

Before you exit your car with your mask and gloves on, put a baggie in your pocket for later.

When you exit the store, hum a tune. If you can’t think of a tune, do the old ommmmm, ommmmm, ommmmm, thingy. The sinuses produce nitric oxide, a viricide. humming stimulates production of NO and channels it to the nose. Which is why you’re going to be nose-breathing to deglove and demask.

https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/rccm.200202-138BC

When you return to your car, stand next to your front tire or in front of your trunk but not right next to your door (so if any virus falls while demasking or degloving, it won’t be right in front of your door and get tracked in). Remove gloves as shown below. Secure the gloves in your baggie. Unlock door with fob. Remove mask as shown below. Add to baggie. You can put baggie in trunk or you can put in a paper bag on the back floorboard. Sanitize hands before touching steering wheel. And off you go, humming now optional.

how to take off gloves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4gyNAsPCbU

Removing Surgical mask/earloop mask:
Do not touch the front of the mask. Breathe through your nose with mouth closed. Using both ungloved hands at the same time, slip your index finger under the elastic band at the Bottom of the earlobe. Move your index finger behind, up and slightly back to the top of the ear stretching the elastic band slightly as you go so the band clears the ear on each side. Lift off the face in a smooth forward direction by moving your hands forward. Hold earloops to put in baggie.

Don’t take off one ear, and ‘peel’ off the face - do both ears at the same time so the only skin touched is the bottom of your ear where you slipped your index finger.
Don’t take the mask off starting at the upper elastic - it’s too close to your eye. Always take off starting below your earlobe then up. Fold the mask outside in by bringing earloops together.
Don’t touch the front of the mask. Use the loops to put mask in baggie.

how to remove an earloop mask (scroll down about half way for a very short video)
https://goodyfeed.com/surgical-mask-which-side/

(Note: when putting on a surgical mask, the dark or blue side of the mask goes outside, the white or light side of the mask goes towards your face - it’s a myth you should reverse them)

Removing N95 mask:
Do not touch the front of the mask. Breathe through your nose with your mouth closed. Grab the bottom elastic and pull back over the top of your head and down below your chin keeping a slight tension on the mask. Keep holding. Using other hand, lift and pull top elastic over head. Move mask forward and off the face by moving your hands away from your face and down. Breathe lightly through your nose until the mask is in the bag. Use elastics to put mask in baggie. Don’t touch the front of the mask. Sanitize hands. Breathe normally through your nose.

how to put on a 95; how to check fit (do the best you can):
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2010-133/pdfs/2010-133.pdf

why you don’t want to reuse a non-washable mask:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/medical/researchers-found-the-coronavirus-lasted-on-a-surgical-mask-for-7-days-showing-how-crucial-it-is-to-properly-remove-face-coverings-after-wearing-them/ar-BB12eT27


406 posted on 04/09/2020 7:56:03 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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