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I really don’t believe that washing your hands is the way to stay safe. I don’t touch my eyes, nose, or mouth with dirty hands. I’m not a kid that puts things
by blackrock 7y ago
I really don’t believe that washing your hands is the way to stay safe. I don’t touch my eyes, nose, or mouth with dirty hands. I’m not a kid that puts things in my mouth.
But yet, I have always gotten sick during the winters at work, in an office setting. Always.
The only winter where I didn’t get sick, was when I stayed home all winter, and avoided most public contact. And miraculously, I didn’t get sick that season.
So the flu virus or whatever I caught, was likely, always via airborne transmissions. Either I was in the same room as someone that sneezed or coughed, and the virus diffused through the air inside, or it got transmitted through the ventilation system.
Keeping your hands from your eyes, nose, and mouth, is important, but so is the usage of a face mask. If anything, it should at least try to stop or slow down some airborne viruses. And face masks will work better, when everyone is using it, so their germs stay localized to themselves.
- jerome-jh 7y agoCertainly washing hands is not the end of everything, but it cuts about 20% of the total number of transmissions, for flu at least. So it is significant, when you have a pandemic with a virus for which nobody has immunity. The second point is that the less you have fat on your hand skin, the shorter lived is the virus when it lands on it. That is the rational behind "wash your hands often" messages.