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In reply to the discussion: Here's how long the coronavirus can live in the air and on packages [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)By breathing.
Viruses dont spread by somehow spontaneously issuing forth from peoples hands.
This is a respiratory infection. It is present in the moist tissues of the respiratory tract - the mouth, the nose, the throat, the lungs.
The reason why you dont want to touch other peoples hands is that they have touched their mouth and nose with their hands. They have coughed into their hands. They have wiped snot with their hands. They have wiped saliva with their hands. They have bit their nails, scratched their nostrils and picked their noses.
Peoples hands only carry the infection because it came from their nose and mouth. When they cough and sneeze, they create a cloud of fine mist that you cant even see. That mist carries thousands of tiny droplets that are like hot air balloons for the virus to ride.
That happens during ordinary respiration. Breathe on a mirror. Do you see the mirror fog? Do you understand that you are normally exhaling a very fine fog. So is everyone else. That fog carries virii.
The reason you are told not to touch your face is because you have touched surfaces that other people have touched after touching their mouth or nose, or into which droplets have settled from ordinary respiration.
Someone who has been exposed to others, becomes infected, and doesnt know it, can infect you by walking into your house and BREATHING.
But since she is going to be breathing and, I guarantee you, touching her face with the gloves, coughing, sneezing, sweating, and scratching itches, then providing her with a pair of gloves is pretty much pointless.
And if we are talking about reusable gloves, then there is not much point at all.
Its unclear what you are trying to accomplish with the gloves.