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Howard
@NotThamesWater
For all of the reasons above, and more, untrained PPE use is worse than no PPE.
Anecdotally - every hospital visit I have made has seen staff with gloves on quite happily picking their noses / increasing cross-contamination risk by touching anything & everything. Medicine by the numbers has a lot to answer for.
(My exposure to medical training is, i freely admit, entirely second hand.)
You see it elsewhere too - food vendors wearing gloves to prepare & serve food, but then accept cash with thr same gloved paws.
Maybe masks will go some way to reduce transmission risk, but I somehow doubt it would be a panacea to replace distancing / lockdown / isolation.