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Re: What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
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Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:09:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:
> ...when you've touched them all over on the outside?
There certainly IS such a point, sometimes...
The gloves are there to protect you from what you are about to touch rather than
to protect what you are about to touch from you.
That's not the case in this particular example, I suspect, and I agree, the TV
detective is not practicing proper procedure...
But when I go to the dentist my hygenist wears a mask... I was told my
hygenist's mask is to protect HER from accidentally ingesting some blood from my
gums (in case I'm infected), rather than to protect me from any germs she might
be about to transmit. (her gloves, in this case, are the more conventional way
round... they're protecting me from her fingers)
But when it IS the case, as long as you aren't contaminated before you start,
and as long as you don't cut the gloves, it doesn't matter *where* you touch the
gloves, inside or out, as doing so does not reduce their protection of you from
things you touch.
Make sense?
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| ...when you've touched them all over on the outside? I'm watching NYPD 24/7 right now, and they just showed a homicide detective testing a smear on a wall to see if it's blood. Before doing this, he puts on his rubber gloves. Okay, that sounds (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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