Back a long time ago while I was doing some advanced training that including putting on, living in, & taking off the full on Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Hazard Protective suits & gear with a bunch of other Specialist Military types, in the early stages of that training, before we got on to the really hardcore stuff (some of which was quite gross just to think about even now - so I'm not going there again!) we spent a fair while in basic Hazmat suits while we took a bit of time (days for most, weeks for some) practicing safely getting those '
mouth/nose sanitary napkin' type masks on & off.
First, we had to learn to put them
ON properly.... so the parts they were meant to cover got a fairly good layer of stuff that was sorta like fluro foam shaving cream slathered on them before the mask went on - and when you put the mask
ON, any fluro foam escaping meant
FAIL - if this was real, you'd be dead! :shocked: Once we all eventually managed to get the masks on properly without 'killing' ourselves, we then progressed to learning how to take the masks
OFF without contaminating ourselves or anyone else.... so for this, the fluro goop went all over the outside of the mask and any fluro foam getting on
any part of your hands/face/body during the removal process meant
FAIL - if this was for real, you'd be dead! :yikes:
The fluro shaving cream stuff was simply used to highlight how bloody easy it is to
NOT fit these types of masks properly enough to protect yourself, and then even if you
DO manage to do that properly, getting it
OFF without contaminating yourself in the process is several orders of magnitude harder! :gaah: Plus, cos it stung like buggery if it got into anything moist (eyes, nose, mouth... ) it drove home to us that while this type of mask is on and before you get used to wearing it properly, it
markedly increases the number of times you touch it with your hands & then touch your face &/or your eyes and doing that
JUST ONCE can be the '
once'
that's critical for you!! :banghead:
But it is your choice &/or that of your government/local authorities really - and given that the infection rates in largely 'mask-wearing' communities & countries doesn't seem to be greatly different than that elsewhere/in 'non mask-wearing communities & countries' (is that cos not too many wear eye protection? :dontknow: ) I guess that it could be reducing the 'volume' of viral exposure you get, possibly meaning a milder infection; and if you are asymptomatic you might still be reducing the 'casual exposure risk' for all those around you; all of which means wearing a mask might just protect others a bit more even if that protection is to
your cost in some degree! :sour: Still, I'm no expert in this, my training was decades ago and these days my forgettory tends to work better than my memory on some things, so who am I to say &/or listen to about this?! :dontknow: You do what you will/what your govt tells you to do, and I'll do what I will too! :thumbup:
hyea:
