Today's google image is particularly apropos.

[conuly]

Wash, wash, wash those hands - even if you're wearing gloves. The point of gloves is not to protect your hands themselves from coronavirus. The point is to protect your hands from the drying effects of soap because of all the handwashing you're doing. The handwashing is what keeps you from spreading the disease willy-nilly.

Comments

[shadowkat]

I suddenly feel validated for washing my gloves after doing laundry with dishwashing soap, and then a clorox wipe. Then spraying them. I also took them off to take the dry clothes out of the dryer, and put them on again to go up the elevator. Then washed them and my hands.

Ugh. Stupid virus.

I recommend Aveeno and Cetaphil moisturizing creams and lotions - life savers!

[pauamma]

Also: if you're wearing gloves, learn how to remove them safely.

[marahmarie]

What kind of gloves? Short (they end at wrist) disposables* get wet inside when you wash hands with them on, rendering them a horribly soggy, heavy, and essentially useless mess. I can't even run water while wearing mine (nitrile type).

*In some sheer turn of good luck I have thick, almost elbow-length disposable surgical gloves, too, but got them long before the US thought COVID-19 was anything but "confined to overseas areas". Since I got them months ago I wasted them on non-essential things so have very few left; now I wish I'd saved them up. They can go under water and get washed, though probably not the greatest idea.

[conuly]

I haven't had that problem so long as I'm only washing my hands for half a minute.

[marahmarie]

Then I must be doing it wrong.