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IIRC, some news reports stated Fauci mentioned something about eye-protection last week. Haven't heard anything more concrete than that. It makes sense, but... I doubt most people will do it. I wear glasses half the time, which... I dunno - may be slightly useful?

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FWIW, as far as I am concerned, I would wear goggles if made mandatory or highly recommended (as long as the kind of recommended googles are sufficiently well described).

On that note I don't see anyone left wearing surgical or latex gloves outside now (Western Europe).

Because the gloves are mostly pointless, if not making the problem worse. It's better to not touch your face and sanitize your hands. All the cashiers here don't use gloves. They sanitize their hands after every transaction, they wear face masks, plexiglass shield around their station, and there is a limited number of people allowed in the store, with a 1m physical distance between customers enforced. This is the requirement in South-Western Ontario. So far it's working fantastic over here. All decisions have been informed by scientists and experts in their fields.

"They sanitize their hands after every transaction"

They use soap and water? Handwipes?

That must be killing any skin they have left. Gloves make so much sense for them. They make sense for everyone.

They use hand sanitizer. It contains moisturizer as well.

Gloves are scientifically proven not to work unless you replace them after every transaction, additionally most people do not know how to properly remove surgical gloves without contamination.

That makes sense overall. But they work for the worker who wears them (just not the public). Longer term healthy workers won't be sick and spread as much.

Taking off gloves shouldn't be an issue. I would think after a 4 hour shift you would take them off and wash hands because they would be sweaty anyhow and you would smell of rubber.

I've worn them when browsing in a store, but the point of the gloves in that case is to prevent my transmitting it to someone else via a point of contact and not to protect myself from receiving the virus.

Transparent face shields might actually be nicer to wear than masks, if that's all you needed, because you can still see each other. I saw someone on the street using one once.

Unfortunately, they haven't been studied much, and I've seen a couple reports that face shields alone are not enough and they are best combined with masks.

Still, a face shield alone would probably be better than nothing.

> Transparent face shields might actually be nicer to wear than masks, if that's all you needed, because you can still see each other.

Alone, face shields do little to nothing to protect people from the wearer.

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