• roguetrick
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      1 year ago

      ? That just says salmonella and norovirus and encourages hand hygiene. Masks wouldn’t help there. To be clear, I want safe food handling, I’m just also a nurse and prefer reasonable approaches over theater. Foodborn illness generally doesn’t benefit from droplet projections.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        What’s unreasonable about someone else choosing to wear a mask when they’re sick? Even if it’s not causing foodborne illnesses, it’s still spreading the illness to other staff and customers.

        • roguetrick
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          -11 year ago

          The comment is nonsense. It’s a made up statistic. That’s whats unreasonable.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            This “made up statistic” is the “unreasonable approach to safe food handling” that you referred to earlier? That doesn’t make sense as statistics are data not actions to follow when handling food.

            Are you arguing that a stranger freely deciding to wear a mask when they’re sick is too unreasonable in your eyes and should be banned? That’s ridiculous.

            • roguetrick
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              21 year ago

              No, I am not arguing that and I don’t particularly know why you think I am since I never indicated it. I objected to the idea that masks would prevent half of food borne illnesses, when they would likely prevent none. If you base your actions off of something as ridiculous as that, you are not taking a reasonable approach to safe food handling.

              If you think you’re arguing with an anti masker, you’re not. Like I said, I’m a nurse and provided direct patient care to people dying from COVID.

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        21 year ago

        Yeah parent poster added the masks into the comment, but the study did not mention them, but as the study says, the improper hand hygiene is responsible for large number of food poisonings.

        Why the study doesn’t talk about masks? Likely because it was done before pandemic so no one wore masks in that setting. Second thing is that generally they are concerned about serious diseases and if somebody would report catching a cold from eating at restaurant will simply be ignored. People are also less likely to report because it’s harder to be sure where cold came from.

        Though if diseases transferred via dirty hands caused 41% of outbreaks, then I believe it’s safe to say that air borne disease is more likely to transfer that way, it’s just a kind of diseases that no one cared about until we had covid, and only in 2020.