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Umbrellas work fairly well in steady rain, but they're not too useful on sunny days when you might happen to pass a lawn sprinkler once in a while. Health care
by zelienople 7y ago
Umbrellas work fairly well in steady rain, but they're not too useful on sunny days when you might happen to pass a lawn sprinkler once in a while.
Health care takes place in steady rain. The goal is to reduce exposure below the viral load required for infectivity.
If you walk around with an umbrella on a sunny day, you are bound to get careless.
By the time a member of the public has a rare high-risk interaction, a mask is not going to seal around your nose, or it will be open at the sides, or moisture from your breath will have compromised it, or it will be incompetent due to being long past the very short mandatory replacement time.
- jjeaff 7y agoIn the current climate, encountering people in public doesn't feel like a sunny day. I'm breathing shallow and keeping distance. I suspect people careful enough to be wearing a mask in public are staying very aware of their mask. Especially as they get within sneeze range.
- blub 7y agoEven surgical masks which don't form a vacuum around the mouth and nose help. A mask is not all or nothing, switching from 100% protection to 0% if it gets "compromised". And a mask is more like a raincoat, not like an umbrella. Raincoats also work against sprinklers ;)