Friday 8 May 2020

SARS-CoV-2, on wearing mask and gloves

Hey Guys,
Let me quickly address some issues on wearing of mask and personal protection as the SARS-CoV-2 infection continue to rise in Nigeria (may God help our effort to bring it to control) , please read through and be guided.

ON WEARING OF MASK
Must I wear mask?
The answer depends on your location, if you are coming out to the public knowing you are going to be meeting a lot of other people who will be talking to you, OHOOOO YES, WEAR A MASK!!!
We are currently at the level of community transmission, what this means is that you can get infected right at your door step, so please wear a mask when you are out, you never can tell who have the virus without symptoms.
I know wearing this mask can be very uncomfortable, especially the cloth mask, that's why you should catch some air in your safe zone like when in your car alone or walking alone on the street, but once you are around anyone, be sure to use your mask.
And please if you wear mask ensure your NOSE and MOUTH is covered else you are not masked yet, and if you must remove it, DO NOT touch the body of the mask, touch only the strings.

ON WEARING HAND GLOVES
In the prevention of this COVID 19, wearing of hand GLOVES is a disaster happening everywhere including on you who is wearing it. My teenage cousin was telling me she feels wearing hand gloves is safe because she saw some of our law makers wearing it on television during their plenaries, well I don't know what their doctors and medical advisers are doing about that.
Wearing hand gloves is dangerous even to you who is wearing them. With your hand gloove you can pick up all the bugs and deposit them on your phones, your hand bag, your pockets, your car keys, pen and many other stuff that you don't care to sanitise before touching them with your bare hands after you remove the gloves. Another example is wearing gloves to the market or grocery stores, you touch from one product to the other, transferring bugs to the food packs and foods without packs and you still use same infected gloves to touch your pocket/bag and the money you take out to pay or the change you return to your pocket, I mean!!! Wearing and removing hand GLOVES in disease prevention have techniques medically, else you will end up contaminating what you are protecting.
Please keep all the gloves away, WASH YOUR HANDS regularly and in the absence of water and soap, use your HAND SANITIZER.

As a diabetic or a diabetes care giver know that you (or your loved one living with diabetes) is highly at risk of complication when infected with the virus, so please stay as safe as possible.
May God continue to protect us by his mercies and grace.

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