Seriously scared or having a laugh?
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This. I've worked in a clean room & a lab where I had to routinely put on a low level hazmat suit.
People have no freakin' idea about the amount of care & awareness of contact & the level of specific & sometimes complicated routine procedure--no idea about the separate chambers/rooms you must go through just to filter air & surface particles before changing in another separate chamber with sticky tape floors--that goes into just trying to keep your dust & hair off a silicon sensor...
...Let alone all the extra stuff--like sprays & scrubs & specific methods of taking off each piece of PPE (personal protective equipment) & folding or placing it in a way to avoid the outer surface contacting anything & then washing down afterward--that goes into trying to prevent an exponentially smaller virus from from contacting you.
No awareness whatsoever. The ones doing it seriously look absolutely ridiculous--dead stupid in some cases--to those of us who have worked in such settings. In fact, much of the shit sheep do actually increases the chances of contact because they are doing it improperly.
But I am sick of trying to explain this only to be cut off by some cow & told to follow their dumb rules as if they are the expert. Some people will only learn the hard way.
In the 80's my fire team leader and I were our infantry company's NBC team. If we encountered an event, it was our job to test the material to see what it was (if non-nuclear) and report it up the chain. That little bit of training had me convinced that biological or chemical was nasty stuff and I didn't want to have to fight in MOPP level 4 and then decontaminate correctly, just might as well shoot me.
I fucking hated MOPP gear lol
Kek! This is the reaction of most entry level scientists who go into that line of research work.
It's fun until the novelty wears off. Then it slowly becomes cumbersome, & for most people a psychologically unsustainable way of living life. Or it just becomes routine, & for those that have the patience to deal with it, they just do. But most people are like cats. After a few years of doing this cumbersome process every single day, anytime they step into their workplace, they want to move on & do something else with more freedom in the little things. It takes a certain level of grit, patience, & stubborn will to achieve a goal to not get bogged down by it. I can't say anything about military operations that require suiting up, but I imagine much of it is the same.
I don't mind doing it for a finite project, or if I have control over how often & when I gotta suit up, but if I was just some corporation's lab guinea pig & had to do this with no real end in sight at the whims of my overlords, I'd probably quit after a few years, too. I could probably do it if I really had to or my survival depended on it; I just wouldn't exactly be happy to get up & go to work every day. Those outfits are uncomfortable. Of all the potentially dangerous things you deal with in them, sometimes the worst is getting an itch & not being able to scratch it alllllll damn day, lol.
And that's just in the workplace.
Now imagine if you had to do that every time you left your house. Then imagine having to convert your house into a closed system with its own filtration system...
The sheep really have no idea. Unless the military secretly has some sort of neutralizing compounds they could dispatch in the event of an actual widespread & uncontrolled pandemic or a biochemical war, only the grittiest of the gritty (or the elite who have/can buy access to existing closed system facilities) would survive that type of apocalypse to see its actual end.
But a genuine thumbs up to all those who dare try & survive it.
Just that COVID isn't it!
I briefly worked in a clean room at NCR some years back in Colorado, pellicle inspecting and other QA jobs. It was not as involved as you describe though. What transpires in a virus lab obviously is quite a mystery to most people who readily believe that some layers of cloth or paper and social isolating will offer any protection whatsoever from viral contact.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6