PPE is partially for their protection, but much more for the protection of everyone around them, in cases like this.
Think about surgeons. You think they wear masks during surgery because they’re afraid of your body parts? Nope. They don’t want to drip sweat into your open body cavity. They don’t want piece of what they just ate to show up on your next CT scan.
If someone has a large viral load sitting in their nostril, then putting a mask over their nose will hopefully prevent most of it from leaving their nose and showing up in you as the patient.
Again, that’s the argument. That I know a lot of you won’t accept. But most of what a doctor does as far as the constant hand washing and masks and such, even BEFORE this virus, was to protect their patient.
A guy who sees fifty sick people a day is absolutely taking measures to make sure that anything he picked up from the last patient doesn’t become his next patient’s problem.
PPE is partially for their protection, but much more for the protection of everyone around them, in cases like this.
Think about surgeons. You think they wear masks during surgery because they’re afraid of your body parts? Nope. They don’t want to drip sweat into your open body cavity. They don’t want piece of what they just ate to show up on your next CT scan.
If someone has a large viral load sitting in their nostril, then putting a mask over their nose will hopefully prevent most of it from leaving their nose and showing up in you as the patient.
Again, that’s the argument. That I know a lot of you won’t accept. But most of what a doctor does as far as the constant hand washing and masks and such, even BEFORE this virus, was to protect their patient.
A guy who sees fifty sick people a day is absolutely taking measures to make sure that anything he picked up from the last patient doesn’t become his next patient’s problem.