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For what, though? And I'm 100% being honest here, what is the specific situation you are envisioning that requires a face shield in your home? In a medical set
by uxp 6y ago
For what, though? And I'm 100% being honest here, what is the specific situation you are envisioning that requires a face shield in your home?
In a medical setting, shields are typically used in conjunction with eye goggles and respirators when performing procedures that have a tendency to cause or be around splashing body fluids. Outside of someone sneezing or spitting on you directly, I can't think of an analogous situation that I come into on even a rare circumstance that a face shield would protect me from.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoIt's the same mentality as people buying guns. What situation that could conceivably arise from a pandemic requires an automatic rifle? It's a generalised sense of "bad things are happening, I need to be prepared for bad things to happen to me".
- staticautomatic 6y agoI don't think that's why people prep and buy guns.
- ThrowawayR2 6y ago> "What situation that could conceivably arise from a pandemic requires an automatic rifle?" Good thing that automatic rifles aren't available for sale to the civilian market[1] then, I suppose. [1] Yes, the pedants will point out that it's theoretically possible with special licensing but it's very uncommon.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoApologies for not understanding the differences between various types of gun and misusing the term. Still, the point remains - what situation could possibly arise from a pandemic that would require a <insert any type of gun here>?
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoHow about this? https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-gun-sales-asian-california-washington-1491891 https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-gun-sales-asian-califor.... Asians don't exactly fit the traditional stereotypes for firearms purchasers but the attacks described and similar bad behavior directed at international students from Asia on college campuses certainly show that there are people out there willing to attack them based on imagined threats and therefore some level of concern by Asians for their personal safety is merited.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI notice that it's "the media are telling them that Asians are being targeted", not "Asians are buying guns because they're suffering from racist attacks". Again, the belief that people will do bad things to each other when order breaks down is much more prevalent than the actual incidence of people doing bad things to each other when order breaks down. I'm not saying it can't happen - there are always racist assholes out there. But the media will tell one story of a racist asshole harassing an Asian family rather than 100 stories of people being genuinely nice to each other in a crisis. Because we'll click on that one bad story and ignore the 100 nice ones.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoI find your dismissiveness of the idea that racist attacks against Asians could be actually be occurring to be disappointing but not surprising in members of the modern left. I suggest you invest some time reading a recent piece by an Chinese-American author in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/magazine/asian-american-discrimination-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/magazine/asian-american-d...
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI repeat, I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I am not "dismissing" racist attacks. I'm saying that media will massively over-report any such attacks, and under-report any incidences of people being nice to each other. So we end up with a belief (based on the evidence that we receive from the media) that we're going to be attacked, and not (which is the vast majority of actual interactions) that strangers will help us.
- briandear 6y ago> What situation that could conceivably arise from a pandemic requires a [semiautomatic] rifle? Rioting, looting, people breaking into your home, police “sick outs.” See what happens if the electricity goes out or all stores are forced to close.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI've seen what happens when the electricity goes out and stores are forced to close - people are really nice to each other and help each other out whenever they can. Let me put it another way: if you owned a gun, would "the electricity is out" be a reason to shoot someone?
- WillPostForFood 6y agoYou store it in your home, then wear it when you go line up for food in case the person next to you turns and coughs or sneezes.
- mbreese 6y agoThat isn't what a face shield is for and it won't protect you in that scenario.
- WillPostForFood 6y agoIt is exactly what it is for, to protect from droplets sprayed out of sick people. Particularly to keep it out of your eyes.
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- beerandt 6y agoImagine being at the gas pump, and the person next to you sprays gasoline at you. A faceshield might keep your face from getting soaking wet, but if you smell the fumes, it hasn't prevented exposure to your sinuses or lungs. Except you can't smell a virus.
- rhexs 6y agoI'm hoping Doctors aren't being hosed down with concentrated gallons of trillions and trillions of virus. PPEs aren't going to do much in that situation.
- WillPostForFood 6y agoFor the most part, the virus is carried in the droplets, so if you protect yourself from the droplets, you're way ahead of the game.
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