That's great! A casualty of the cancel culture! Also, I am 22 years US Army, Combat Medic (5 years) and Medical Service officer (17 years). Trained in biological warfare survival for all that time. We used FILTERED protective masks, hoods, gloves, boots, suits, self-decon, and other survival techniques, NONE of which include the wearing …
That's great! A casualty of the cancel culture! Also, I am 22 years US Army, Combat Medic (5 years) and Medical Service officer (17 years). Trained in biological warfare survival for all that time. We used FILTERED protective masks, hoods, gloves, boots, suits, self-decon, and other survival techniques, NONE of which include the wearing of a surgical mask. Since I worked with docs and nurses, I only ever saw surgical masks in use in surgery or in a negative pressure room with TB patients. Surgical masks were designed to reduce the risk of BACTERIAL contamination of the surgical field. NOT designed to wear while walking, daily activity, talking much. If a mask is TOUCHED, becomes MOIST/WET, SOILED in any way, it is considered CONTAMINATED and must be replaced. The BOX in which surgical masks come in have a DISCLAIMER printed on the outside of the box stating they are NOT effective against COVID-19 (or any virus for that matter). Early on, February 2020, CDC stated masks were ineffective against viruses, but they wanted everyone to wear one to 'remind everyone there was a Pandemic going on' and to do all the other things possible to protect themselves. I knew DOCTORS who would NOT use PPE because they wanted to get the illness so that their body could produce ANTIBODIES. Our immune systems WORK (for most of use who are not immunocompromised). God help us, this profound ignorance of basic human biology. Keep up the good fight! Signed, a retired public school health educator and administrator. ;-)
That's great! A casualty of the cancel culture! Also, I am 22 years US Army, Combat Medic (5 years) and Medical Service officer (17 years). Trained in biological warfare survival for all that time. We used FILTERED protective masks, hoods, gloves, boots, suits, self-decon, and other survival techniques, NONE of which include the wearing of a surgical mask. Since I worked with docs and nurses, I only ever saw surgical masks in use in surgery or in a negative pressure room with TB patients. Surgical masks were designed to reduce the risk of BACTERIAL contamination of the surgical field. NOT designed to wear while walking, daily activity, talking much. If a mask is TOUCHED, becomes MOIST/WET, SOILED in any way, it is considered CONTAMINATED and must be replaced. The BOX in which surgical masks come in have a DISCLAIMER printed on the outside of the box stating they are NOT effective against COVID-19 (or any virus for that matter). Early on, February 2020, CDC stated masks were ineffective against viruses, but they wanted everyone to wear one to 'remind everyone there was a Pandemic going on' and to do all the other things possible to protect themselves. I knew DOCTORS who would NOT use PPE because they wanted to get the illness so that their body could produce ANTIBODIES. Our immune systems WORK (for most of use who are not immunocompromised). God help us, this profound ignorance of basic human biology. Keep up the good fight! Signed, a retired public school health educator and administrator. ;-)
Thank you for the encouragement. So long as I can speak the truth, I shall continue to do so.
I'm stubborn... can't really do anything else! 😉
Outstanding! God bless you!