PM in Intensive Care...

Quote: Durham Giant "Well let’s see.
Let’s play a game called pick the job and will have a look at the feasibility of dong that job without gloves or hand sanitiser.

Starters for 10

Factory worker picking some tools up. Not sure who else might have picked them up. Either has his gloves on or alternatively has to use hand sanitiser because walking off the production line every 20 minutes to walk to the nearest toilet / sink is not feasible.

All of The People who are currently wearing gloves at work will be joined by millions more who will also need gloves Or hand sanitiser.

Interesting that the government is directing bus stations and transport hubs to provide hand sanitiser for passengers.

They obviously ignored cronus’ advice that we don’t need hand sanitiser.

Seems like hand sanitiser has become Cronus’ Marie Antoinette let them eat cake moment.

But of course you know this .

What you are actually doing is trying to justify going back to the herd immunity arguement as if you don’t have protective equipment than it is good if people catch it .

Problem is that no one knows how long immunity lasts or the impact of catching it again.

But then again we do not know that it affects poor people and BAME groups more.

Maybe that is Cronus’ motivation.'"

Good god I'm surrounded by them.

The post was in reply to the claim "all of the working people in the world" require "gloves and sanitizers for x millions of people for five/six days a week for 12-18 months? Nobody wears one pair of gloves for 8-10 hours a day" Presumably you believe the same?

Yes, of course sanitiser is useful where soap & water isn't practical, but only as long as it has sufficient alcohol content. But the fact is most people don't need "gloves and sanitizers for five/six days a week for 12-18 months". The key point - which you ignored - is that common soap is better at killing viruses.

Gloves - once again - are meant to prevent cross infection. You're not wearing gloves to protect your hands, are you? You don't become infected via your hands, do you? The whole point is not to touch your face - wearing gloves or not is utterly irrelevant - in fact wearing gloves instils a false sense of confidence and only promotes spread.

Your worker wearing gloves will just spread whatever he touches everywhere else - unless he changes gloves every time he touches something new, which would just be ridiculous. Let's say your worker is on a production line. He infects everything he touches with the infected gloves - which then moves down the line and infects everyone else presumably wearing gloves, who also spread it everywhere. Those tools he picked up? Infected with whatever was on his gloves, which have been doing the rounds for a few hours.

Let's say someone in an office wears gloves. They pick up CV19 from a door handle. Because they're wearing gloves they don't wash their hands as often, if at all. In the next 10 minutes they make a brew, touching the fridge handle, kitchen door, tap, kettle, milk and biscuit tin. They return to their desk and type, infecting the keyboard and mouse. They go and chat to a friend, touching various pieces of furniture along the way. They type on their phone. All infected. They touch several door handles moving around the building. Infected. They throw their gloves away and think they're safe.

As soon as they get home they're on their infected phone without gloves and pick their nose. Get it yet?

Exactly the same as someone who wears gloves to go shopping, drive their car - all they do is spread whatever they pick up on their gloves.

I bet you all ran out panic buying toilet roll as well.