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DancingShade posted:Hot soapy water > hand sanitiser if you're at home. The squirty stuff in plastic bottles is for when you're on the move. Can confirm this. Day one of nursing school for me was having us wash our hands how we thought we should, and then shining a UV light on us to see all the spots we missed. It was quite a lesson. Do yourself a favor and learn the right way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IisgnbMfKvI
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pixelizedpope posted:Can confirm this. Day one of nursing school for me was having us wash our hands how we thought we should, and then shining a UV light on us to see all the spots we missed. It was quite a lesson. euthanising suffering animals is not a problem for me. but all those glowing uv spots on my clean clean hands. all those spots
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pixelizedpope posted:Can confirm this. Day one of nursing school for me was having us wash our hands how we thought we should, and then shining a UV light on us to see all the spots we missed. It was quite a lesson.
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Gonna go scope out the local store.
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Your immune system is a badass and can deal with you missing some spots when handwashing
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Daikloktos posted:I learned the same lesson the first time I chopped up hot peppers then thoroughly washed my hands before taking a piss You have skills and abilities that were forged in fire!
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numberoneposter posted:Gonna go scope out the local store. I'm in Seattle and people are panic buying at Costco but not touching the ethnic food stores.
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I'm in Ohio, nobody seems to be pillaging the stores yet. Probably because at least 40% of the people here take Trump's word as gold and think this is a hoax. Once they panic it will be a Chinese super weapon.
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I just got over a cold/flu that took made me feel like poo poo for 3/4 days and I'm not looking forward to having to deal with another one so hopefully I get a bit of a break. I'm pretty confident if it shows up around here I'll be exposed to it. I am confident in my health at least. I'm going to drink less so that I can tell the difference between "oh god im never drinking again" and "oh god its the corona virus" they do feel different though, but there is some cross over between a real bad hangover and the flu.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I'm in Seattle and people are panic buying at Costco but not touching the ethnic food stores.
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Seattle-area goon checking in, just finished the last of my grocery shopping for perishable items. I went to a Trader Joe's, which was busy but not by much more than your average weekend. The frozen food section was starting to look a little picked over by the time I got there around 2pm.
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so how bad of an idea is it to spend 18 hours at the denver international airport? is this a good way to catch the virus? should i wear a facemask or spray everything i touch with lysol or what?
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owlhawk911 posted:so how bad of an idea is it to spend 18 hours at the denver international airport? is this a good way to catch the virus? should i wear a facemask or spray everything i touch with lysol or what? Wear a set of disposable painter overalls with hood, plastic bags over your shoes and avoid using any public toilet (so hold it in for 18 hours). Wear both a face mask and sealed goggles at all times. Eat & consume nothing exposed to the air. Enjoy your stay.
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Just go outside the airport, where wind and air move freely. If you feel like looking paranoid, wear a mask and nitrile gloves. And don't touch your goddamn face.
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Wear a sign around your neck that says: "Recently in Italy, please stay 30 ft away".
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:And don't touch your goddamn face. Simplest thing and always great advice. Also never forget your eye membranes are an attack vector so if your eyes aren't protected then that face mask is loving pointless unless you're kind enough to be thinking of not spreading your own germs to others. So maybe wear that anyway out of consideration if you're sick.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I'm in Seattle and people are panic buying at Costco but not touching the ethnic food stores. I found a fantastic deal on canned seafood and lots of cool rear end items at the local indochinese store, i was the only one there. huge bags of rice too for cheap
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The good thing is that all information from every country suggest that the majority of cases for this coronavirus (SARS-2) result in mild symptoms equal to a somewhat bad case of the common cold. So most people who get it will be fine. But health officials are extremely worried because SARS-2 is both appears to be more infectious than typical flu viruses and has a higher chance of resulting in pneumonia* compared to the flu. Combining those two factors means SARS-2 can jam up every single hospital bed in your state with new cases of pneumonia and then some. It's infectious enough to potentially infect 20% of the population in a year, and those numbers mean that even a 20% pneumonia rate is enough to fill out every hospital in the area. At that point, it will get real bad for new patients that come down with pneumonia or need to go to the hospital for other reason. Because all the spare beds are already packed with SARS-2 pneumonia cases. *This is largely how SARS-2 kills people. It gives some of them a bad case of pneumonia. golden bubble fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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Pneumonia can kill even healthy people so it's definitely a huge concern
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DancingShade posted:Simplest thing and always great advice. It's idiotic to claim it's pointless unless you consider any situation that isn't 100% protection to be pointless, in which case the face masks are always and ever pointless.
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My eyes are permanently protected by wrap around sunglasses , like cool mithril for my eyes
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When shopping today I saw both pasta and hand sanitizer where unavailable in several shops. Funny thing is people see no pasta and start panick buying. Guess what, there is no more pasta because it is all produced in italy and driven here by truck, from the affected regions where production is halted. Not because the world is ending. But this is how panic flares up.
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Mithaldu posted:It's idiotic to claim it's pointless unless you consider any situation that isn't 100% protection to be pointless, in which case the face masks are always and ever pointless. Nah. Face masks provide no real protection for the person wearing them if they're worn improperly, reused, or you're not also wearing something to protect your eyes. They're likely to increase your risk of contracting something if wearing one makes you hang around sick people more because you think you're protected. Or if wearing it makes you touch your face more because you're constantly adjusting your mask. The main reason to wear one is if you might be sick and you want to avoid spreading it to others. Jabor fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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I refuse to believe any substantial amount of supermarket shelf pasta sold anywhere outside of the EU is actually made in Italy
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I remember being actually shocked seeing a dried pasta brand that claimed to be made in Italy bc I just assumed the idea of packet pasta like that was abhorrent to Italians, like how adjunct sugars in beer are for Germans
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The doctor video posted a page or so ago makes a good case as to why the masks can actually do more harm then good.
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wait a sec so people are looking for masks and smoking seems to ward off the illness... 
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Fojar38 posted:Your immune system is a badass and can deal with you missing some spots when handwashing Not really relevant when you're about to plunge those hands into a person to remove their spleen or whatever Also, apparently not really relevant when coronavirus is entering your eyeballs
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if smoking warded off the virus someone please explain china to me like you would to a small child
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VikingSkull posted:if smoking warded off the virus someone please explain china to me like you would to a small child It's probably just smoking weed that protects you, I don't think that's real popular in China
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Mithaldu posted:It's idiotic to claim it's pointless unless you consider any situation that isn't 100% protection to be pointless, in which case the face masks are always and ever pointless. It's pointless* in the sense that any airborne droplets near your nose and mouth will definitely also get in your eyes, bypassing the mask entirely. In that sense you've reduced the effectiveness of the mask to 0%. You may as well be wearing that mask on your elbow. Kind of like how it's also pointless to wear a mask if you're constantly fidgeting with it and scratching your nose, and it's pointless to reuse the same mask multiple times, etc. If a measure is rendered completely ineffective then it is pointless * Not pointless if you're already infected and are only trying to prevent infection in others
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Mozi posted:wait a sec I doubt smoking wards it off. Smoking weed probably wouldn't matter either. Maybe hacking up lung butter a few times a day from hitting the bong helps in terms of contracting it by breathing, but that's not the only point of entry.
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gay picnic defence posted:It's probably just smoking weed that protects you, I don't think that's real popular in China gently caress yeah But I’m close enough to the north coast of nsw that it probably gets balanced out by the unvaccinated rate Swings and roundabouts
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Jabor posted:Nah. But if everyone is panicked into wearing face masks during an epidemic, then logically some of them will be sick but not know it, and their disease will be stopped from spreading by the face mask. So it could work, but only if everyone is doing it.
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:I remember being actually shocked seeing a dried pasta brand that claimed to be made in Italy bc I just assumed the idea of packet pasta like that was abhorrent to Italians, like how adjunct sugars in beer are for Germans dried pasta is really the only way to do a proper marinara where you save some starch water to mix into the sauce to keep it from separating
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My boyfriend reports that the Canadian Tire near our house had large pyramids of hand sanitizer, face masks, and disinfectant wipes right at the entrance. There were also apparently signs saying the masks were non-refundable over the entire store. So we're in the ramp up to panic buying in downtown Toronto, I guess?
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Sucrose posted:So it could work, but only if everyone is doing it. Good luck herding those cats.
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gay picnic defence posted:It's probably just smoking weed that protects you, I don't think that's real popular in China I really really hope this is the case
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golden bubble posted:The latest update from the British nursing professor is up. I'd completely missed the news that the Pope was sick. Gonna be wild if famous people start dropping dead along with everybody else, I'm not used to this sort of egalitarianism.
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Jabor posted:Face masks provide no real protection for the person wearing them if they're worn improperly, reused, or you're not also wearing something to protect your eyes. I agree with you. If the wearer of the mask is indeed completely brainless and receives zero training on the use of equipment, then yes, the equipment is useless. QuarkJets posted:It's pointless* in the sense that any airborne droplets near your nose and mouth will definitely also get in your eyes, bypassing the mask entirely. In that sense you've reduced the effectiveness of the mask to 0%. You may as well be wearing that mask on your elbow. Particularly the one-use thing is wrong for N95 masks. But here, have a fight with the CDC over it. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/hcwcontrols/recommendedguidanceextuse.html Go on, tell the CDC reusing masks is useless. Have a ball. quote:Limited reuse has been recommended and widely used as an option for conserving respirators during previous respiratory pathogen outbreaks and pandemics. Mithaldu fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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