[pfflier]

There are some risks so small that they become laughable.

That explains why all healthcare workers wear gloves when they handle HIV patients but not hardhats to prevent meteor strikes!.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

[Alter Kaker]

That explains why all healthcare workers wear gloves when they handle HIV patients but not hardhats to prevent meteor strikes!

Health care workers (1) deal with many patients per day, vastly increasing the chance of contamination and cross-contamination, (2) deal with sharp objects regularly, (3) even without gloves would have a very low risk of contracting HIV.

In any event, if you can't see the difference between being in the same swimming pool as a healthy child living with HIV and giving intravenous injections to a hemorrhaging delusional homeless person, I'm not sure I can help you -- the risk differential is all the world.