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The endlessly bad/conflicting advice - dont wear masks, save them for the actual sick. For a disease most people dont know they have and incubates for days se
by mgleason_3 7y ago
The endlessly bad/conflicting advice
- dont wear masks, save them for the actual sick. For a disease most people dont know they have and incubates for days seems like the advice should be “wear a mask if you have a cough”.
- dont cough on your clothing, cough into tissues, toss them and wash your hands. This seems almost impossible given most people seem to cough multiple times a minute. Why not teach them to contain the spray. Eg Best: Dont go out. Next best: wear a mask. As a last restort, cough into your shirt (as in pull the collar up over your mouth an cough down inside the shirt so the spray is contained inside it).
- ambicapter 7y agoCan't tell if you're listing good advice to follow (in contrast to "the endlessly bad/conflicting advice") or listing examples of bad advice that shouldn't be followed.
- bad_user 7y agoMasks are currently in short supply. At this point it's more important for medical personnel to have access to masks, than it is for individuals. Because if the hospitals get overwhelmed, we're all screwed — this being a classic tragedy of the commons. Also it's pretty hard to wear a mask correctly. I've seen plenty of people wearing surgical masks with their nose out. If you aren't going to wear that mask correctly, then what's the freaking point? And even if you can train yourself to wear a mask correctly, to properly dispose of it, etc, the price of masks, even surgical ones, has gone through the roof and even if you can afford to wear a new one each day or two, the supply of masks isn't reliable. So I'm afraid that at this point, even if you have a cough, the best you can do is to isolate yourself, because masks are in short supply and expensive.