https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dr-fauci-recommends-wearing-goggles-to-prevent-catching-the-coronavirus-2020-07-29Quote:
Are you ready to wear a pair of safety goggles with your face mask?
Dr. Anthony Fauci says that eye protection may be recommended at some point to help prevent spreading COVID-19.
The infectious disease expert sat down for a remote Q&A with ABC News via its Instagram account on Wednesday and his eyewear comments raised a lot of eyebrows on social media.
Dr. Jennifer Ashton, the Disney-owned DIS, -0.49% news network's chief medical correspondent, asked Fauci whether he could see shielding the eyes being recommended at some point. "You know, it might," he said.
Fauci explained that the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 infects mucosal surfaces or parts of the body including the eyes, nose and mouth that secrete mucus to stop pathogens and dirt from getting into your body. So "perfect protection" of your mucosal surfaces would include covering every one of them up, he said.
"Theoretically you should protect all of the mucosal surfaces, so if you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it," he said.
"It's not universally recommended, but if you really want to be complete, you should probably use it if you can," he continued. But one reason that this hasn't been pushed for the general public yet, he suggested, is because, "it's so easy for people to just make a cloth mask."
Give it another week or two at most and some ******* governor will mandate this.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
