ANSWERS to each colored point above will be represented in the corresponding colors below:
1. The "studies" (2 shown below) have been cited everywhere, and even posted here on TUG ad nauseum. I have posted several things from a
healthcare professional's perspective, so I know-----it's not simply my own opinion.
So, here are the reasons!...how did you miss these, they've been on every media outlet on the planet for 2-3 months?
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2. You are over 60? Then it's every doctor's and researcher's professional opinion that you ARE at greater risk because of certain
physiological changes your body possesses that you apparently are not familiar with, whether you "consider yourself" different or not.
They go by actual chronological age, not by what you feel, which is frankly irrelevant. So you contracted 4 different viruses this season?
What does that tell you? Luckily none of them were deadly, but what we're talking about here is a deadly virus.
3. Refer to my #1 answers!
Your question "what was the risk?" begs you to read and re-read the current "professional" thought on everything you missed.
4. Not wear masks? It's not a good idea??? WHERE are you reading that???
If anyone put that in print, then read on because you totally missed their point---
i.e., the mask-wearers they were talking about were not following the RIGHT way to wear a mask....
But simply not wearing one was never the intended suggestion.
And, Gloves are entirely different...Gloved hands touch everything, and then immediately following you may use them to
inadvertently touch your own clothes, your arms, your purse, your wallet, your credit card, your keys, your steering wheel,
your door knobs, and yes, even your face without realizing it, and it goes on and on.
For those reasons alone, gloves have been deemed to be more of a hazard than a benefit.
You even contaminate your clean hands underneath the gloves when you remove the gloves.
More RESEARCH for you:
Hand contamination (at a restaurant or ANYWHERE---same process, shown below)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/heal...periment-coronavirus-trnd-wellness/index.html
5. Possibly, BUT........
Frankly, how closely the people adhere to the professionals' researched directives and recommendations will do more to
determine how likely they are to get the virus. How close you get to a fire determines how badly you will get burned.
It's why we tell children "No, No" when they approach a fire.
Just look at the cultural practices in the more devastated Italy, where everyone touches each other, then kisses each other on both cheeks
all day long. Because of it, it spread like wild fire and killed a disproportionate number of people. Or look at the pub activity in UK, same deal.
Those qualify as common-sense "cultural studies" rather than scientific studies, do they not?
Bottom line, the less YOU adhere to the "rules", the MORE risk you are inviting. And if you don't wish to accept the safety protocols,
then it's more likely that NO, you won't be able to avoid it. If the nay-sayers don't become infected, it's a higher degree of luck,
rather than any scientific theory they've proven. Lock-downs or stay-at-home directives, although highly unpopular with some,
have definitely caused the "curve to flatten". These things grouped all together tell a story.
I agree that hand washing is critical and a real means of avoiding contamination and subsequent infection with a potentially deadly virus,
but the point remains that there are MANY other things at play, to which you are totally disregarding, to your potential detriment.......
I sincerely hope you are doing MORE than just washing hands. Sanitizing surfaces, regardless of your stated inattention and ill-defined focus,
is equally critical for prevention. Should we applaud you for ignoring it? or for not wearing masks? or for "sticking to it"?
Before you get home and wash your hands, though, to repeat from above
in this seemingly harmless scenario, you touch your own clothes,
your arms, your purse, your wallet, your credit card, your keys, your steering wheel, your door knobs,
and yes, even your face without realizing it, and it goes on and on.
Not to mention that if you did any one of those things when Covid-19 Virus particles were actually present, unbeknownst to you,
then you have most likely also breathed in those same virus particles, or will. If you brush your clothes, for example, the particles can fly.
I know the things you've said as to your personal feelings toward the universally accepted precautions, per your posts,
and I want to say that I think you, and a few others here, are being quite naive and reckless. That's my opinion.
I just hope others have better judgment, based on STUDIES and RESEARCH rather than aspirations to exercise
personal freedoms at the risk to yourself and others.
If you could only read and study the information I've reviewed by the CDC and by my own federal and state professional associations,
you would cringe. You fear being branded as OCD. MY fear is that you could conceivably be branded as "in hospital on a respirator".
Things are now improving only slightly, but don't be deceived-----it's not over yet and there's a lot of potential heartache out there.
We have no definitive treatments yet, and certainly no vaccines or cures. I do not want anyone here to get sick,
especially to the point of irreparable damage to their lungs or even death,
but it CAN happen regardless of age or health...it all depends on how one's own body responds, about which you don't know right now.
My advice to all is to STAY SAFE and DON'T LET UP ........ not yet. There's a long way to go.......months and months.
