And stop touching your face!

@bratface said:

And stop touching your face!

Funny, you never realize how often you do...until you are warned not to.

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

@bratface said:

And stop touching your face!

Funny, you never realize how often you do...until you are warned not to.

Not such a big deal, as long as you WASH YOUR HANDS! (And do it properly.)

Which people should ALWAYS be doing, really.

As long as each of you stay at least 6 feet from me while we're posting we should all be OK.

@Knixon said:

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

@bratface said:

And stop touching your face!

Funny, you never realize how often you do...until you are warned not to.

Not such a big deal, as long as you WASH YOUR HANDS! (And do it properly.)

Which people should ALWAYS be doing, really.

The thing is we touch our faces all day long without realizing it. If you are out & about, you touch a doorknob to open a door, your nose itches & without thinking about it you scratch your nose, therefore you have transferred the germs from that doorknob to your nose!

Even before this virus took hold (for a couple of years now) I have been wearing a face mask in public, I keep my distance from people, etc. I'm a huge germaphobe but it also reminds me NOT TO TOUCH MY FACE until I get home & can thoroughly wash my hands. I must be doing something right because I have never had the flu & haven't had a cold in 40 years or so.

The problem there is that regular "consumer" face masks - the kind you see people in China wear a lot, etc - are designed not to keep YOU from GETTING something, they're to keep YOU from GIVING something to SOMEONE ELSE.

So you wearing a mask doesn't really protect you. What you need is to somehow require EVERYONE ELSE to wear them. Good luck with that.

And I bet you've never been hit by a meteor either, so that tin-foil hat must really work!

We could all walk around in hamster balls.

I've been wearing my plastic Greta Thunberg mask and everybody steers clear of me !!

How DARE you!

I don't think gorillas weigh 800 lbs. That would be really fat.

@Knixon said:

The problem there is that regular "consumer" face masks - the kind you see people in China wear a lot, etc - are designed not to keep YOU from GETTING something, they're to keep YOU from GIVING something to SOMEONE ELSE.

So you wearing a mask doesn't really protect you. What you need is to somehow require EVERYONE ELSE to wear them. Good luck with that.

And I bet you've never been hit by a meteor either, so that tin-foil hat must really work!

I know what they say but it still serves a good purpose, reminding me not to touch my face.

@bratface said:

@Knixon said:

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

@bratface said:

And stop touching your face!

Funny, you never realize how often you do...until you are warned not to.

Not such a big deal, as long as you WASH YOUR HANDS! (And do it properly.)

Which people should ALWAYS be doing, really.

The thing is we touch our faces all day long without realizing it. If you are out & about, you touch a doorknob to open a door, your nose itches & without thinking about it you scratch your nose, therefore you have transferred the germs from that doorknob to your nose!

Even before this virus took hold (for a couple of years now) I have been wearing a face mask in public, I keep my distance from people, etc. I'm a huge germaphobe but it also reminds me NOT TO TOUCH MY FACE until I get home & can thoroughly wash my hands. I must be doing something right because I have never had the flu & haven't had a cold in 40 years or so.

You know; it might be instinctual. We do it constantly (and as you said "without realizing it"). Maybe once upon a time all that face-handling served an important purpose. Now, however, maybe the purpose for doing it is long gone, but an innate need to do it still remains.

@Lemons said:

I don't think gorillas weigh 800 lbs. That would be really fat.

Raised in the wild...No. Raised in a zoo...Yes.

@Lemons said:

We could all walk around in hamster balls.

Then there are hazmat suits. But, lots of luck with that. They seem to be selling out fast.

In all seriousness, the coronavirus has affected our family to a small extent. My college-age sons have been home this week on their spring break and we just learned that their spring break has been extended by another week, and then their classes will be remote for the foreseeable future.