A 'surgical mask', especially a cloth one, serves two purposes. It keeps blood out of the surgeon's mouth if an artery gets nicked by accident and it keeps the surgeon's lunch crumbs out of the open wound.
When I was on the International NBC disposal course, one of the Engineers asked the Dr. giving the lesson of the day about masks and whether or not we should wear one and his answer was "what's a piece of cloth going to do that your respirator can't do better ? if blood soaks through it then any pathogen won't even slow down"
I served for 20 years on NBC response teams as perimiter monitor, decon operator and approach/assess/render safe/disposal operator in charge and never once wore a 'surgical mask', paper or cloth, because they do nothing except keep a wound from getting spit into and I wasn't dealing with a wound.
The whole reason was to prevent sneezing (or just talking) launching the virus on spit or breath, and also in reverse...you would be safer in a killer virus situation. And then wait for the vaxx to kill you or whatever...
NBC is part of EOD duties but I also had a secondary duty on the NAST then NAR teams to go along with it. I guess the powers that be figured if I was going to show up anyway then they could kill three birds with one stone. We did wear bright yellow cloth suits as part of the NAST team though, they stop Alpha particles and enough Beta particles to make a difference.
Cloth masks sort of work if they get moist enough from your breath to give pathogens something to stick to and they do stop some that way, the problem is they also stop any you breathe out and then you end up with bacterial pneumonia that a lot of people have been deceived into thinking is 'long covid'.
NAST = Nuclear Accident Survey Team, the title when I started in the 70's NAR = Nuclear Accident Response, the later title in the 80's We still did Chemical and Biological as part of it and the acronyms have probably changed a half dozen times over the years, changing the name makes everything 'new and improved' donchaknow
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At last, a useful purpose for a damn face-diaper!
…or the patient's fingers
Or anything else! Amirite?
Why is he eating KFC (it's finger-lickin' good!) when he's operating?
A 'surgical mask', especially a cloth one, serves two purposes. It keeps blood out of the surgeon's mouth if an artery gets nicked by accident and it keeps the surgeon's lunch crumbs out of the open wound.
When I was on the International NBC disposal course, one of the Engineers asked the Dr. giving the lesson of the day about masks and whether or not we should wear one and his answer was "what's a piece of cloth going to do that your respirator can't do better ? if blood soaks through it then any pathogen won't even slow down"
I served for 20 years on NBC response teams as perimiter monitor, decon operator and approach/assess/render safe/disposal operator in charge and never once wore a 'surgical mask', paper or cloth, because they do nothing except keep a wound from getting spit into and I wasn't dealing with a wound.
@John T- Sold for the prevention of potty mouth.
@DougM- So it's basically a win-win for all involved.
@TrickyRicky- You make a fine point.
@JustaJeepGuy- He's eating KFC on the chance that some of the 11 secret herbs & spice might have medical value when crumbs enter surgical openings.
@Oldarmourer- I had to do some research to find out what NBC disposal is all about, and holy crap! Grateful that you're still with us!
The whole reason was to prevent sneezing (or just talking) launching the virus on spit or breath, and also in reverse...you would be safer in a killer virus situation. And then wait for the vaxx to kill you or whatever...
@Stilt, I expect those herbs and spices would probably help more when entering a surgical opening than would a Junior Mint.
NBC is part of EOD duties but I also had a secondary duty on the NAST then NAR teams to go along with it. I guess the powers that be figured if I was going to show up anyway then they could kill three birds with one stone. We did wear bright yellow cloth suits as part of the NAST team though, they stop Alpha particles and enough Beta particles to make a difference.
Cloth masks sort of work if they get moist enough from your breath to give pathogens something to stick to and they do stop some that way, the problem is they also stop any you breathe out and then you end up with bacterial pneumonia that a lot of people have been deceived into thinking is 'long covid'.
NAST = Nuclear Accident Survey Team, the title when I started in the 70's
NAR = Nuclear Accident Response, the later title in the 80's
We still did Chemical and Biological as part of it and the acronyms have probably changed a half dozen times over the years, changing the name makes everything 'new and improved' donchaknow
Ye Olde surgical masks were used to keep the surgeon from drooling chewing tobacco into the open wound.
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