@Buccanarab
What's the point wearing a mask if everyone touches the pin machine when paying by card?? Arent you more likely to catch it from the keypad than walking past someone without a mask.
No, the virus doesn't enter the body through the skin. The only way it gets from your hands to inside you is if you stick your hands/fingers in your mouth/nose/eyes after touching an infected surface.
Erm, if an infected person touches the keypad, transferring infectious particles, the next person to touch it will potentially have those particles on their hands. If/ when they touch their face/ mouth they could then also be infected.
Clearly I didn't mean the virus is absorbed through the skin! I really didn't expect, with all the hand washing advice everywhere, that I would have to explain that. But he ho, there's always one.
Face coverings reduce the chance of infected droplets being expelled onto surfaces as the droplets the virus is transferred in will get caught in the mask, rather than spread out and land here, there and everywhere.
I really don't understand your argument, the same applies whether infectious particles are transferred to something by physical contact or by tiny water particles from someone's breathe. The particles are still on the surface, people who touch the surface, who then touch their faces etc, still face the exact same risk of catching the virus. Or am I missing something??
Yes, masks may stop some particles floating onto surfaces, but contact with surfaces touched by hundreds of people a day without being cleaned is just as great a risk.