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Boomer

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6. A couple of points

Reply to Arsenalpe (Reply #4)

Wed Jul 1, 2020, 02:14 PM

Jul 2020

You can't catch the coronavirus through the skin of your hands, so if you touch your mask AND THEN WASH YOUR HANDS, you should be fine. As long as you don't touch your face in between. So my routine when returning home is to wash my hands, take off my mask and store it away, and then wash my hands again.

And just a pedantic side note: what I've read is that soap has no effect on the virus itself, it just helps wash the virus away from your skin.

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Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 [View all] NNadir Jun 2020 OP

moral of this story, die , or wear a mask dang nabbit AllaN01Bear Jun 2020 #1

Why aren't N95 masks being mass produced? BigmanPigman Jun 2020 #2

As a veteran of the scale up of AIDS drugs in the 1990's... NNadir Jun 2020 #3

Masks reduce the transmission Arsenalpe Jul 2020 #4

I touched on this point, albeit in a somewhat technical way elsewhere in this space. NNadir Jul 2020 #5

A couple of points Boomer Jul 2020 #6

Your last statement is not actually true. NNadir Jul 2020 #7