I want to talk a little about
bird flu today, or more specifically one of the daftest things surrounding it, namely the wearing of surgical masks to protect yourself.
Now I know it's an easy trap to fall into, but let's think about it for a moment and ask yourself this question, does the surgeon wear a mask to protect him from infections that you may have, or does he wear it to protect your inards from infections he is likely to breath onto them? Yeah? Got it now? Gooood. So let's have no more nonesense about surgical masks -
they just wont help you - you need to stop bugs coming into your system, in other words you need a respirator mask.
Right now, back to work the lot of you, there's nothing to see here - move along!