Restaurant employees gloves and mask

It is just a recommendatin that most are following. Gloves have never been a law at any time

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Gloves have never been a law at any time

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Gloves are a visual feel good item for customers, but funny enough only benefit the wearer.

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How? Does Corona get absorbed by the skin on your hands?

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How? Does Corona get absorbed by the skin on your hands?

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I'm not talking about just Corona , I'm talking about since the beginning of gloves they have been meant to protect the wearer's hands. They do not add any benefit to someone for instance eating a sandwich made by someone wearing gloves. As far as Corona goes they protect the user's hands from accumulating germs as they touch shite, but the gloves continue to pollute shite they touch, as ungloved hands would, which is given to customers.

ETA: Here is an example:

Cover your body in wet red paint from head to toe, let this represent your cooties. Now, grab a pair of gloves out of the box, put them on and strat performing a task. Let me know how long it takes the gloves to be completely covered with red paint, i.e. your cooties.

Now, cover a bunch of canned goods in red paint, put on a pair of gloves and starting acting like a cashier at the grocery store. Notice when you take the gloves off the paint goes with them and your hands are clean.

I'm not advocating using gloves to protect against the virus. Did you read my initial post? My point is that they are a visual feel good for customers which is stupid because the only benefit is provided to the user in providing an easily removable barrier between the users hands and whatever they are touching.

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Gloves are worse than bare hands bc some of these people are wearing the same gloves the whole shift. They would need to be changing frequently and washing their hands every time they changed gloves to be effective

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Agree with this 100%, and there have been several studies that document exactly what is described above. Wearing gloves blunts the kitchen worker’s sense of “dirty hands” and often leads them to touch more things with the same gloves than they would with bare hands. If you just touched raw meat, you’re gonna feel that on bare hands, and likely will wash before moving to the next task. Gloves must me changed constantly to be an effective barrier.

Masks are a different thing: those can serve to protect kitchen workers from each other. Kitchens aren’t conducive to effective social distancing, and they’re often hot, leading to sweating. which can lead to wiping of brows and other facial touching. It it only takes one asymptomatic virus shedder to fell an entire crew. The mask isn’t doing much to protect a takeout/pickup customer who has brief contact—they’re protecting employees from each other.