When I was working my way through college, the first time, I worked as a nurse’s assistant in a hospital isolation ward. We had lots of rules about suiting up and face masks and gloving and double gloving. And the stuff we were guarding against were all the harmless stuff like regular hospital germs and the stuff the patients in the 1970’s had, before AIDS and all the foreign drug-resistant strains. But you know what? I was better prepared to care for patients then with the lesser degree of germs and viruses than any of the nurses today who are facing some real scary stuff.
oh my goodness- I don’t know how nurses and doctors do it today- one mistake- and it can have devastating consequences- for life- Even kill early like with aids
It was a way different world back then- I had to have blood transfusions before they really knew about aids- a couple of times actually- and spent plenty of time in hospitals when the epidemic was just getting going- I was very fortunate that I didn’t contract anything- I remember when the epidemic began to be discovered- it was discussed in school- as noone knew just how bad it was going to be at he time- everyone was fearful it could be easily spread- that folks could get it off toilet seats- from urinals etc- people were genuinely scared back then- I remember when news stations began first reporting about it-
As for things like MRSA- don’t those grow in sterile environments only?