Coronavirus Omicron 2021 Hygiene Protocols


Posted November 30, 2021 by stilsonlewis

So now we have Omicron Coronavirus.( A friend of mine says it sounds like the name of a new Transformer.) Protocols are a nuisance, but I was grateful when I was the one caring for my elderly parents to see them used in hospitals.

 
When one is out of their own country, or has finally booked a trip, finally, as things were loosening up, or have family in far away places that they haven't been able to see in far too long the impact of this new scare is felt in a different way. So now we have Omicron Coronavirus.( A friend of mine says it sounds like the name of a new Transformer.)

Protocols are a nuisance, but whatever else, they give you something you can do about the situation. I can't see that the makers of masks and gloves are likely to have invented this to get rich... And I was grateful when I was the one caring for my elderly parents to see that their doctors, nurses and aides wore masks and gloves and used hand sanitizer when entering the room to help them. This was more than a decade before Covid. And when I needed surgery, I was happy to see everyone in attendance in masks and gloves. I am assuming that they thoroughly scrubbed.

It was a 19th-century Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis who observed and promoted that hand washing would save lives. In 1846, he was met with ridicule and pushback. We haven't moved too far forward. Semmelweiss observed that the new mothers in the hospital, who were treated by doctors who were also performing autopsies, died from childbed fever at five times the rate of the women in the midwives clinic. The doctors were not washing their hands, or taking any other sanitary precautions,between. In fact they attended to the mothers, still stinking of corpses. There is a lot more information about how observations were made over a period of time which looked at and ruled out other factors. He actually thought it was bits of corpses that infected the women.

The story goes on to show how chlorine was used, and that just having the physicians wash their hands with chlorine between handling corpses and helping new mothers effectively lowered the death rate of the new mothers by 20 times. Unfortunately, Dr. Semmelweiss was not good at communicating and gaining understanding. It took Florence Nightingale's insistence while working in a war hospital in Italy, to help handwashing filter into use. But not widely enough. The food industry was still unaware..and so it goes.

So, while there is much more to be learned about the history of hygiene up to now, we still see a great resistance to following hygiene protocols. So strange, since most of us learned to wash our hands in kindergarten. There is a way to find out what works. Just look up Stay Well in your computer. It gives simple, easy guidelines to follow to keep yourself and others well. It is sponsored by the Volunteer Ministers of Scientology. "Something can be done about it." said L. Ron Hubbard, and this is the motto of the Volunteer Ministers. www.volunteerministers.org
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Issued By Martha Stilson
Country United States
Categories Family , Health , Medical
Tags family health , hygiene protocols , omicron coronavirus , semmelweiss , stay well
Last Updated November 30, 2021