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COVID-19 Precautions By Joyce M. Coomer Masks are good. Washing hands is good. Social distancing is good. But... and this is a BIG BUT... until it is explained in excruciating detail that social distancing includes FAMILY and FRIENDS as well as strangers, spread of this virus is going to continue. Evidently very few people, from comments I overhear and Facebook posts, have any inkling of how pathogens spread -- something I was taught at a very young age by mountain women who had little, if any, formal education. Social distancing MUST INCLUDE your grown children, your parents, your siblings, your aunts, your uncles, your cousins, your grandchildren, and your friends (close or otherwise). Gathering size has very little to do with the spread of a virus if people are visiting friends and family three or four times a week for several hours at a time. Unless everyone in your extended family and all of your friends and acquaintances work at the same place, shop at the same places at the same time and there are no other people in the stores, you aren't practicing social distancing if you visit family and friends several times a week. Church services can be held but minus the hugging (which is annoying to me -- a life-long friend told me that I'd practiced social distancing most of my life), and immediate families (those who live in the same household) sit together, at least twelve feet from any other family. Avoid hand-shaking, even pats on the back, as that brings people close enough to easily spread germs from one person to another. Dating -- oh, there's a good one -- should be curtailed. Do dating couples work at the same place, shop at the same places at the same time . . .? Wearing masks is a good thing unless you have a nosebleed as I do this morning. However, masks must be worn properly, covering the mouth AND nose, and not hanging underneath the chin. Once a mask is donned, touching it every few seconds isn't good since no one can be one hundred percent sure what pathogen may or may not be lurking on their own skin; bacteria and viruses are so small that they can go through the material of a mask. I know I'm going to upset a lot of women, but I feel that the spread of COVID-19 has been enabled by women who hug nearly everyone they know, every time they see them in a store, at church, at work, or at their residence. I remember being told when I was a child "don't breathe on me" when I was sick, or being told not to let someone breathe on me because they were sick. Well . . . if you get close enough to hug, you are going to breathe on someone and they're going to breathe on you. I would like for the state health department to emphasize exactly what social distancing is all about . . . not just keeping your distance from strangers in a store, but keeping your distance from EVERYONE except those who live in your immediate household. This story was posted on 2020-07-10 10:32:35
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