“The most important thing to do, when out and about, is to wear gloves. As long as your wearing gloves, you’ll be fine.”
This is incorrect. Gloves get contaminated like skin on your hands can. Once a glove is contaminated it is as bad as your hand being contaminated. It must be changed. Handwashing and not touching your face is far more effective.
Take it from me, I wear 15-25 pairs of gloves daily and wash my hands 50 times per day as part of my job taking care of people with illness.
“New study by MIT says 2 meter distance may needs to be 4 times bigger. Particles travels at 10 to 30 meters a second.”
When the social distance guidelines and recommendations came out, that is exactly the first thought about that subject I had.
I’ve seen the movies... And they’re easy to find.
My concern is to reduce the opportunity for the virus, by preventing it from touching skin. I can’t control the fact that all surfaces are being touched 1000 times a day by various individuals, but I can reduce the odds of taking that virus home with me by wearing gloves during the day and changing them a couple a times a day.
True, what BlueStateRightist said. But if you learn enough about how to best use gloves, they can be helpful in specific places at specific times. There’s no use for them most of the time for most people.
I do wish many shoppers were trained (most important), stocked up *in advance* and using gloves to avoid contaminating products and other surfaces in stores but only during times like this one. All kinds of Americans (especially people in medical and decontamination work) should have training (most important), supplies of gloves, masks and other protection (nonporous clothing, creams, sprays, cleaners, etc.) for times like these.
Those who stocked up in the past weren’t the problem, although those hoarding supplies after the virus arrived were selfish and lacking in logic. The problem is the lack of production on U.S. and lack of stored and rotated supplies.
It’s not difficult to learn at all, but there are quite a few steps and details to know about properly using gloves. Same with masks. Training is needed (many practice drills)—not only reading. I have no medical experience but was trained and equipped for nuclear, biological and chemical threats (as a soldier, not an NBC specialist).