I was going to comment that Up To Date mentions this as the most common cause of human bite injuries.
I have some pretty cool Disney masks, including one with the Haunted Mansion wallpaper design. I enjoy rocking them.
I find an insulated balaclava very useful for skiing this year. You can pull it up over your nose when you're in the lift line, then pull it down around your chin once you're away from everyone. A medical mask gets caught on your goggles and is a big pain to constantly take off and put back on.
Actually unless you can wash your hands you should not remove the mask in the parking lot. If you do, you could be contaminating yourself. Masks do protect others but they also protect you which is why the fit is important. Many of us don't remove while driving because one should wash hands after removal. So I cannot do it until I get home. So no, that's people not understanding. In fact they really do understand. Also when it's cold I am not removing my winter gear just to take it off. It keeps me warm lol
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Or the people wearing any kind of mask driving alone in a vehicle. Do they wear them alone at home? If the virus is getting into their car, it's certainly getting into their home as well.
I would like to think that by now everyone has a bottle of hand sanitizer in their cars.Actually unless you can wash your hands you should not remove the mask in the parking lot. If you do, you could be contaminating yourself. Masks do protect others but they also protect you which is why the fit is important. Many of us don't remove while driving because one should wash hands after removal. So I cannot do it until I get home. So no, that's people not understanding. In fact they really do understand. Also when it's cold I am not removing my winter gear just to take it off. It keeps me warm lol
Here's a full article
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No, not everyone does. We were warned when it was hot not to leave them in the car, so we never did put them back. I usually carry in my purse, but often I go bagless and sometimes forget to put it in a pocket. It's also stupid cold here and I am not taking my gloves off to get my hands wet and have them freeze more. The mask can really wait!
In regards to wearing masks at home, some of my friends who live in high rise apt buildings could be wearing masks while alone in the apt. When the nearby apt neighbor cooks up a storm that could wake up the dead , the food smells wafer into the nearby apts and apt hallways.
This combined with cases falling off a Cliff both add up to some great news. I’m optimistic that by summer cases may be down to more of localized clusters rather than widespread. That and the fact so many have already had it, it’s almost like 30-40% of t he population already has some level of immunity. We’re getting there!
I personally don’t. Virus is running out of bodies to jump to. Every day it loses about 2 million potential hosts. With about 200 million who can probably still catch it we are eliminating its jumping points by 1% daily. The R0 number is now below 1 so we shouldn’t. Just my guess on simple math. I also think I when JNJ rolls out later this month or next month we will see that jump to 3-5 million a day.
I personally do think we'll see a catastrophic surge if everyone loosens restrictions BUT the odds of that seem to be diminishing with the rates and supply of vaccines increasing. That being said, don't be complicit. Whatever happens between now and the end of March will dictate whether or not the 3rd surge is the last or the 4 surge is the end of America as we know it
End of America. Wow. Intense. My feelings obviously assume we stay on current trajectories. I don’t see masks going anywhere for a while and also a lot of folks still not doing much til summer. That said, we’ve stayed level on cases here, and restaurants have been open at 75% since last summer. People out to eat all the time so I do think there is a bit of overreacting to NY and LA opening their restaurants.
I updated my spreadsheet calculations for the week of 2/7-2/13:
I did the quick math in another thread but here’s a recap. 28M confirmed Covid cases is about 8% of the population. Let’s assume 2-3 times that many have actually been infected. For argument’s sake let’s say 20% of the population has been infected. Now add in vaccinations which are at 12% for 1 shot and 4.4% for both. The main issue with straight up combining the 2 is there is going to be some overlap. Some of the people who were naturally infected are also in the vaccinated group. Particularly in the healthcare workers and LT Care groups that went first. I don’t know of any way to figure out how many people are in both groups. At the end of the vaccine rollout if we assume 80% of people accept the vaccine that leaves 20% without it. If we assume by that time 25% of the population has been naturally infected and same as the general population only 80% of those people also get vaccinated then the 20% of people naturally infected and not vaccinated is equal to about 5% of the population. So take however many people are immune due to vaccination and add another 5% of the population who should be naturally immune anyway.
