Please bear this in mind when reading advice from @kallmemeg like this: it could just save your life & someone you’ll never, ever meet. @0bj3ctivity 💙
For a more evidence-based & compassionate approach to others, I suggest you follow the excellent example expressed by the captain of the Yarmouth to Lymington @wightlinkferry 👇
Last, worth remembering: better masks block better.
If you’re serious about protecting YOURSELF, wear the best mask you can get: FFP2/N95 minimum.
Even though you’ve seen it on TV, please bear in mind that the rubbish that NHS staff get is of little protection for the wearer.💙
@mancunianmedic@bmj_latest I think with 1,500 HCWs dead, over 120,000 with long covid & NHS Trusts still anchored on droplet transmission beyond AGPs, you've got a right to be angry.
You mention the pandemic stockpile lacking necessary supplies. I agree.
I hope you don't mind my 2c...
@mancunianmedic@bmj_latest In advance of PPE re-procurement, Spring 2016, the NERVTAG ‘Sub-committee on the pandemic influenza Facemasks & Respirators stockpile’ recommended that ‘fluid repellent surgical masks (FRSM) could be used for the majority of clinical care on normal wards during a pandemic...
In contrast, for MERS Coronavirus, FFP3 respirators were required for all HCWs, but as MERS was not deemed to have pandemic potential, stockpiling for this purpose was not deemed necessary.
WHO described SARS2 as a cough & sneeze droplet-transmitted virus
Prevention: 'wash your hands, don't touch your face'
At 12:37: #COVIDisAirborne!
'[emitted] small liquid particles...droplets to smaller aerosols'
Prevention: 'wear a mask'
Did you know?
WHO anti-airborne starting point:
'The COVID-19 virus spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes'
WHO anti-airborne: prevention
🤦♂️Wash your hands regularly with soap & water, or clean them with alcohol-based hand rub.
🤔Maintain at least 1m distance between you & people coughing or sneezing [Ed: what about breath-exhaled aerosols; & why 1m?!].
🤦♂️Avoid touching your face.
2. HUMANS RELEASE AEROSOLS DURING NORMAL PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES WHICH RESULT IN SUFFICIENT ENVIRONMENTAL AIR CONTAMINATION TO CAUSE INFECTION VIA INHALATION
“This slow & gradualist [lockdown] approach was not inadvertent, nor did it reflect bureaucratic delay / disagreement between ministers & advisers. It was a deliberate policy – proposed by official scientific advisers & adopted by the governments of all of the nations of the UK”
‘The report questions why international experts were not part of the UK scientific advisory process & why measures that worked in other countries were not brought in as a precaution, as a response was hammered out.’