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glove reminder: when you put them on, treat your hands as radioactive.
put them on *when* you enter a store, right before you anticipate touching anything you don’t own (if you’re touching your phone w/gloves, you’re cross contaminating). remove them to pay. put on a new pair.
put them on *when* you enter a store, right before you anticipate touching anything you don’t own (if you’re touching your phone w/gloves, you’re cross contaminating). remove them to pay. put on a new pair.
if you’re putting on gloves to leave the house and touching your keys, phone, bag, face, etc., you’re cross contaminating. gloves go on = you only touch things not already on your person. put them on when you leave your car and take them off before you get back in.
ask anyone who works food service and they’ll tell you about zones. your food has to be remade instead of being sent back to the kitchen because the kitchen is a ‘clean’ zone and your food would contaminate it.
treat your person/belongings as a clean zone and everything beyond it as contaminated. when you put on gloves to engage with the contaminated zone, do not introduce aspects of the ‘clean’ zone (phone, keys, credit card). do not cross contaminate!!!
yes!!! don’t just toss your gloves! bring a plastic bag with you to dispose of them (so you don’t make a worker have to handle them. plus you can easily tuck it into your pocket until you hit a trash can) https://twitter.com/comicjimbruce/status/1250237274102493186?s=21
the benefit of gloves is the mental reminder to be conscientious of what you’re touching, but if you can treat your *hands* as a contaminated zone and learn not to touch anything except other contaminated things (doors, carts, etc.) then handwashing is ideal.
if you don’t have the contaminated/clean zones in your brain and can’t build the reflex (truly it only comes through experience) you’re better off washing your hands, isolating your clothes, sanitizing your phone/keys/card, and showering as soon as you get home.
and when you take them off, they should ball up inside one another, inside out. don’t peel them off! pinch the opening (away from your skin) and pull down! : https://twitter.com/brandonstrabley/status/1250239077204602881?s=21
also you should be tossing your gloves before you get back inside your home or reach for your keys. pop em in a baggy and throw that out once you get inside or dispose of em in a garbage can. don’t cross contaminate your home/car.
if this shit seems overwhelming or hard to follow then you shouldn’t be wearing gloves, you should just be washing your hands. using a sanitary measure incorrectly means you’re exposing yourself and others just to give yourself a placebic sense of security.
and don’t double glove lol just don’t
