Y’all ready for another rant? Well here it comes. !!!!!!!WEARING GLOVES DOES NOT REDUCE YOUR CHANCES OF CATCHING DA RONA.!!!!! Let me elaborate: if you wear gloves, good for you that’s one step you’re taking to protect yourself from the virus. Keep reading, I’m not done...

But if you touch your face, phone, purse, keys, etc with the same gloves you touched door handles, shopping carts, various touch points that others touch, then you might as well have not worn gloves.

My favorite combo: you wear a pair of gloves, nothing wrong so far, you touch a random door handle that hundreds have touched, still good, then you touch your phone, all over the screen, all over the back, and you put that same screen you touched, up to your face. You get it?

If you’re using gloves in public, double or triple glove up. It’s not a condom, it won’t break if you layer up gloves. Take off each layer when you make contact with a high touch point. Also, if you wear a mask, make sure it’s secure before you touch anything else.

If you keep adjusting your mask when you’re out in public and touching other things, you’re inadvertently touching your face which is part of the reason the mask if there: SO YOU DONT TOUCH YOUR T ZONE. So if you choose to wear a mask, secure it in place, and then don’t touch.

Now to my biggest peeve and the pet peeve of many who work in healthcare: LEARN TO DISPOSE OF YOUR GLOVES PROPERLY. I repeat: DISPOSE OF YOUR GLOVES PROPERLY. I ride around most of westchester and I see gloves scattered on the floor and roads.

There are multiple reasons this pisses me off. 1) you’re littering something that’s not bio degradable 2) You’re not taking off your gloves right. You may be wondering, “not taking off my gloves right? What is this douchebag EMT talking about?” Let me explain:

When you take off gloves, you grab the wrist end of one glove, without touching your actual wrist, take it off and make sure that it comes off inside out, then ball it up in the other gloved hand, and repeat the process on the remaining gloved hand. And here’s the important part:

THROW THEM IN A TRASHCAN. THROW YOUR GLOVES IN A TRASHCAN. THROW YOUR GLOVES IN A TRASHCAN. THROW YOUR GLOVES IN A TRASHCAN. THROW YOUR GLOVES IN A TRASHCAN. THROW. YOUR. GLOVES. IN. A. TRASH. CAN. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

And if y’all are confused about my explanation of taking off a glove, please feel free to DM me and I’ll show you with no judgements or ill will. The only thing I want is for people to stop littering and potentially opening the public up to more exposure than necessary.