05-19-2020, 04:28 PM
(05-19-2020, 02:35 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Of course. It's not designed to make you feel safe, it's designed make you actually safe.
Dealing with medical patients in a clinical environment calls for a higher level of containment than out in the environment. I went and saw my family physician about a week ago, regularly scheduled checkup. He, along with all of the staff, were wearing masks. Not the type that you are describing, but the standard style clinical masks. After the visit, he even took it down, while out in the hall.
You must be a lot closer to risk than they feel they are. My provider is part of the UNC healthcare system, and I'm pretty sure that they don't skirt any established guidelines or recommended precautions.
The CDC’s recommendations to wear a face covering while in public are the same for both of us for the same reasons.
I don’t wear a N95 masks out in public. I only wear it at work. (But, I still wear procedure masks at work depending upon the situation.) The one I wear in public will not prevent me from inhaling the novel coronavirus, but it will reduce the spread of respiratory droplets to others through breathing, coughing and sneezing. It also prevents me from coughing or sneezing on my hand then contaminating the things I touch with my respiratory droplets which could contain the virus.
I just went to the grocery store this week and while there I watched a couple put several packages of cold cuts back on the shelves. If they coughed or sneezed on their hands then those packages are contaminated and could get others sick. A face covering could prevent something like that from happening. Which means less sick people which means we get through this faster.
I don’t want people to lose their job, apartment, savings, or not be able to pay their bills or buy groceries almost as much as I don’t want people to get sick, but not as much as I don’t want people to die.
We’ve done a poor job of educating people on why people should follow the recommendations.