We shouldn't underestimate it: Ebola is FAR more contagious than HIV or hepatitis.

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42. I was thinking about wearing my weeding gloves out and about....I have lots of them

You know when I was a child people wore gloves in public places. The ability to recover from an illness using antibiotics was still pretty new. The vaccines were new, most that we have now were not invented yet....the old ways of protecting oneself in public involved things like wearing gloves, wearing hats with mesh to cover eyes and face a bit. They were all very stylish, but they also had a function.

We were trained never to touch anything in a public area without wearing the gloves and then we were not to touch our faces unless gloves were off and hands had been washed. My mother's family of 10 lost not one member during the Spanish Flu epidemic that killed so many around them. Oh they also ate a clove of raw garlic every day. But they rode busses and streetcars and went to school....they participated all sorts of public events in the city that they lived in.

These protocols have been forgotten. But they were once part of city life.

Perhaps they need to be reinstated.