Saving Your Health, One Mask at a Time, By Peter S. Tippett, MD, PhD

[jimmyzvoice]

We all hear the same things: wash your hands, don't touch your face, stay at home, stay 6 feet away from others. Viruses live on boxes and plastic and doorknobs and... EVERYWHERE.

How does the average person decide what measures to follow unless they truly understand how these things work or have a clear set of “rules” they can abide by?

I am an Internal Medicine-certified, Emergency Room MD with a PhD in Biochemistry. I have also spent much of my professional life in the high-tech world helping people understand how risk, infection, and the growth of infection behaves. So I thought it might be helpful to folks in my network to explain how personal protection from a virus like SARS-CoV-2 (the formal name of the virus that causes COVID-19) actually works, how any given measure individually lowers risk, how various countermeasures work together, and most importantly, to give you some simple guidelines for day-to-day living in this new COVID world.

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Lengthy, comprehensive but worth your reading this at...
https://caremesh.com/blog/2020/4/8/saving-your-health-one-mask-at-a-time

[Raven123]

1. Thanks for posting.

[marybourg]

2. Good, sensible discussion of the varied risks the virus

poses in different situations. Bringing in the package is not as risky as getting breathed on by a sick person and shouldn’t be treated the same way.

[scarletlib]

3. Very informative.

[dem4decades]

4. Well worth the read, thank you.

[cayugafalls]

5. Confirms everything I believe. Using multiple protection protocols reduces risk.

Masks, Gloves, Not touching face, Washing hands...etc.

Well written article. I will pass this one on.

Thank you.

[Yavin4]

7. I wear gloves, a mask, and goggles when I leave my apartment. n/t

[cayugafalls]

8. I forgot goggles. I wear safety glasses, the clear ones. nt

[Yavin4]

10. Same here.

Barriers are good reminders

[Yavin4]

6. Great post. Extremely helpful.

I wear gloves when I'm out as a reminder about touching my face.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Very helpful, reassuring article.

This really calmed me down a bit since my biggest concern was getting exposed via packages, mail or other deliveries. I have ordered surgical masks but they won't be here until mid-May or early June.

I am going to call our local hardware store tomorrow which is only a block away to see if they have any face masks to tide me over until then. I haven't left the building in over a month, and have just been tying a long sleeved t-shirt around my mouth and nose to go down to the lobby and mailroom, however it's hard to breathe through it.

Thanks again for posting!

[Stuart G]

11. K and R..outstanding post, Thank You for posting.