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Originally Posted by Baz

OK thanks - but if this is true, wouldn't we have cases being reported higher than they are?

Maybe wearing gloves would also help?

I suspect lots of folks aren't being reported, especially since this seem to be pretty mild most of the time, and since it's cold/flu season. And there are probably plenty of folks that aren't reporting the results of home-testing.

Interesting thought about the gloves. I don't think you get CV through your skin. So JUST touching it probably won't give it to you. You have to touch it, get it on your hands, then touch your eyes/nose/mouth. If you wear gloves, and never touch your face with the gloves, and can get the gloves off without touching yourself with the potentially infected gloves, and wash your hand, then I would think that should help.

Of course, I think the big deal with this stuff is that it's supposed to be air-borne so if you're in a store and a dude sneezes, and then you walk through the sneeze cloud 30 seconds later, despite never being closer to the guy than 50', you can potentially get it. Of course, if you're masked, I would assume that should help. I'm not sure about getting it through your eyes, maybe that's not a thing.

I'm clearly no expert, just discussing based on what I've read/heard.