My brother is a doctor with more than 35 years in practice. For the first 26 of those years, he was a surgeon. This is what he has to say about the "protocols" involved with Covid 19.
He describes social distancing as a means to control the virus as a person who stays in the shallow end of a pool in an effort to not get wet. This virus spreads by contact. Touch something or someone who has been infected and chances are very, very good you will become infected. That's how it works. Being 6 feet away from someone is not going to do a thing to prevent the spread of the virus.
When it comes to masks that are not designed to protect against viral contagions, he calls them "bacteria bags." Masks and gloves are single use, short term PPE only. Neither are designed to protect the user from viral contaminates. Most people wear these masks for hours at a time, constantly touching them, adjusting them, taking them off and putting them back on again. Every time they touch their masks they contaminate their hands with their funk and then contaminate everything they touch, gloves or not. He says, and I quote, "they may as well lick their hands and go around touching everything."
He believes the only people who should be wearing masks of any sort are those who are sick and those who believe they may be infected. That's all. The masks will help reduce the risk of those who are infected from spreading the virus and through potentially infected body fluids such as saliva and mucus throughout their environment, but, that's about all.
He's a firm believer in the science that our immune systems are the best defense we have against things like Covid. I tend to agree with him. We both grew up in an age where vaccines and antibiotics were not dispensed like Pez Candy. Doctors let their patients be sick in order to develop their immune systems. As a result, the general public had a better tolerance for these things.
There's a lot of rumor and myth out there that's being taken as fact for the simple reason that its been repeated enough times. Even the government has bought stock in much of this anti-information. These are indeed very strange and very volatile times.
Be well, all.
