Heres what ive learned about safety protocols. The N95 mask was specifically designed for capturing contagions and this is the best mask to get. Medical professionals with full access will wear an N95 with a surgical mask over it. They will replace the surgical mask constantly and the N95 daily or perhaps more, depending on supplies and intensity of hospitalizations. In the face of shortages there is talk of washing the N95. If you do have an N95 then you need to understand that it was cleverly designed to catch viruses in order to protect the infected particles from getting through by catching them before they can go any further. This means that if youre living in a place that is exposed to coronavirus, your N95 is the best protection against breathing in covid but is also essentially a little collective reservoir of collecting coronavirus, which will eventually defeat the purpose of having it in the first place. Again, some reports indicate that it may be feasible to wash N95 with normal soap and water. I guess anti-bacterial soap is the best but look it up for yourself.
For those who dont have an N95 mask the idea of double layering and regular washing applies even more. Whatever face protection you have go ahead and wear it and then put a bandanna over it. Or if a bandanna is your protection then wear two bandanas. Whatever you have access to i would say (based on what ive read) double it up and wash it very often.
Dont touch your face. Most especially wash hands regularly and especially before touching any orifices such as eyes, ears, nostrils- even be aware about touching your personal places - these are entrance points into your blood stream. Wash your hands before you touch them.
Wear gloves and use protective measures such as a paper towel over your fingers when you have to touch commonly touched surfaces such as door handles, electronic debit/credit card keypads, gas pumps, etc. Throw away any protective tissues used. Gloves can be reused if they are washed/sanitized but if not then they need to be regularly thrown away.
Coronavirus is spread primarily through being exposed to the expelled salivary droplets of infected people. This means either breathing them in shortly after they are expelled or making hand contact with an exposed surface and then bringing the exposed hand to a vulnerable opening of the body. Droplets are expelled by breathing, talking, coughing, sneezing, singing, whistling, shouting, spitting, etc. It lives very well on certain surfaces and slightly less well on others. Look it up. Wear masks, keep social distancing, have some kind of barrier between your hands and the things that you have to touch. Protect yourselves from the dangerous exhalations of others and restrict your own behavior so that when/if you catch it, you dont spread it.
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