Spreading coronavirus? Why wearing
gloves to supermarket isn't helping
by
Lauren Steussy
&
Suzy Weiss
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
4/23/2020 12:49:11 PM
The gloves are coming off in the fight against dangerous myths surrounding the coronavirus.
Despite no recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to do so, shoppers continue to wear gloves in public places, such as grocery stores. The gesture has left doctors and health experts shaking their heads — not only are the gloves ineffective, they may be worsening the spread of COVID-19. The virus primarily spreads through our mouth, not our hands, so there’s no evidence that gloves do anything to protect people from picking up the illness. The risk is when people touch their faces, which they do with and without gloves, says Marilyn Roberts
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Historybuff 4/23/2020 12:51:30 PM (No. 388934)
And when you wear a mask, you touch your face more often.
Hire enough clowns, don't be surprised when you find yourself with a circus.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/23/2020 12:59:07 PM (No. 388949)
I just left a supermarket...what I saw is not unique because I've seen this now over the past weeks: People wearing gloves toss them in the shopping carts and on the parking lot ground. Pigs. Probably (Undoubtedly) the same ones who look with disdain at those not wearing masks.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MattMusson 4/23/2020 12:59:51 PM (No. 388950)
This is crap. If you wear gloves, don't touch your face and then remove them before you open your car - it is effective.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Avikingman 4/23/2020 1:08:17 PM (No. 388959)
Without gloves there's entering your pin number on those icky keypads. Or handling cash.
Meh.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Avikingman 4/23/2020 1:09:50 PM (No. 388961)
OP, where did you find alcohol? Can't find it in my CT stores.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bamboozle 4/23/2020 1:22:29 PM (No. 388973)
#5, I found a bottle of hand sanitizer at my Ace Hardware store in the paint department.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/23/2020 1:51:16 PM (No. 388997)
None of this is helping. The shutdown should never have happened. A lot of things are transmitted person to person, so cleaning door knobs, wiping down common surfaces, putting some tissue and paper towels in the restroom ---those would help. But shutting the economy down, that is a crazy insane person, doctors and politicians included. Not one piece of evidence has been provided to justify shutting this economy down. Just ask, and they will say that they need more data. Here is some data for those that shut this economy down, you are fired and won't be getting any more data deposited to your bank accounts. Why should you be employed, living the good life, getting out, at work, standing there with a bunch of people couple of feet away, telling us to stay at home and not work.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
saildreamer 4/23/2020 1:57:38 PM (No. 389003)
I am astounded when I see people out in public with gloves scratching their noses with their gloves. Do they honestly believe that the glove has less virus on it than their hands would if they wore no gloves? They aren’t magic. That is a false sense of security. I’m trained as a nurse. I assume that everything I touch Is infected and wash my hands as soon as I come into my house and before I touch my face. No gloves necessary.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/23/2020 2:08:32 PM (No. 389021)
On two outings to the supermarket, I have worn gloves. Disposable nitrile. And a disposable mask. That’s twice in two weeks. I have no proof that it doesn’t help, and it is not a big enough deal to make a fuss about.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/23/2020 2:12:14 PM (No. 389029)
Pointing to stupid people as proof that something doesn't work is more than a little misleading. If one doctor in a hospital doesn't do the correct surgical prep, does that mean surgical prep is useless? Try following the smartest members of the herd, not the dumbest.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/23/2020 2:24:49 PM (No. 389045)
Despite recommendations, some state governors are "requiring" gloves without the slightest idea why.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kono 4/23/2020 3:17:55 PM (No. 389126)
Is a virus cell able to crawl from my cheek or chin to my mouth, nose, or eye? (Those are the vulnerable places, along with open skin wounds, for contact transmission.)
If just touching any part of the face is such a risk, the "wash your hands" mantra ought to be followed by "and then wash your face".
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bazi 4/23/2020 4:41:12 PM (No. 389193)
It took me half a second to figure out how to remove the gloves properly...without instruction. Upon leaving the store, grab a couple of cart wipes clean to your gloves and door handle and steering wheel. I bet the people who drop their gloves in the parking lot are the same lazy bums who leave their shopping carts anywhere but in the cart corrals. When doctors and dentists quit using gloves, so will I. The Wuhanic Plague- arrrgh.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/23/2020 5:15:02 PM (No. 389230)
#5, go to an auto parts store, find the RED bottle of gas tank water remover "Iso Heet". It is pure isopropyl alcohol Cut it with 30% water if you want to extend it. "Rubbing alcohol" is 70% isopropyl, 30% water. Tap water is fine. I picked up several small 1" diameter by 4" tall pump sprayers (empty, new) at the travel toiletries section in Walmart to put it into. Rides OK in a pocket.
The yellow bottle Heet is methyl alcohol (methanol).....which is not on the CDC approved disinfectant list. I'm not sure if it would destroy this virus or not, but not approved for some reason, so I'd avoid it. Isopropyl and ethyl alcohol are CDC approved for destroying the virus. Isopropyl will not hurt car interior plastic or clothing, either. Bleaches can cause damage to clothes, maybe other stuff. Isopropyl leaves
minimal smell, too.
Worst case....by some "Everclear" grain alcohol at the liquor store. It is straight ethyl alcohol and will work fine, too, cheap vodka will work fine, too - but you will smell like a you've been drinking. 🙂
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 4/23/2020 5:19:27 PM (No. 389235)
#12. No it cannot move on it's own, even the tiniest bit. A virus is not alive. Think of it as a tiny spec of DNA (blueprints) of how to make more viruses, wrapped in a fairly fragile wrapping of a few other fatty molecules. No moving parts at all.
In reality this one uses RNA, but still just a set of blueprints to make more viruses, not alive. It goes into a cell and hijacks it, injects the instructions into the LIVING cell to make more NONLIVING viruses....just more instructions. Useless except that it clogs everything up with copies of virus and the cells taken over can't do their normal jobs.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 4/24/2020 12:46:32 AM (No. 389543)
I don't really care what people wear in the store as long as everyone's wearing pants.... I'll go in.
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When I walked in Walgreen's, somebody had dropped a pair of gloves at the front door. That's nasty and laziness. I am high risk and wanted gloves before the virus. Fight amongst yourselves. I am wearing mine.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kiwinews 4/24/2020 11:24:26 AM (No. 389990)
She's right in that there is no need to keep the virus from penetrating the skin, but I disagree, they DO help me. With nitrile gloves on, I am more aware of my hands and so don't inadvertently touch my face. Just like in the garden, I don't touch my face with my dirt covered garden gloves on. I also know how to properly strip medical gloves off so the contaminated inside stays inside while I dispose of them - also properly and then wash or alcohol wipe my hands.
After watching the ungloved, unmasked woman in the checkout line in front of me boring in her unlovely nose up to her wrist before using the keypad. I am GLAD of the gloves.
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Gloves for this never made any sense to me at all. The virus can't penetrate the skin, so gloves are pointless. I clean my hands with alcohol after leaving stores, but before touching my car, and have been fine. And I don't touch my face when I am shopping. Sometimes, I rub my nose on my upper arm if it itches, but never touch with hands.