Monday, July 13, 2020

How safe is your safety kit?


 If like many people your "playing safe" then you'll be wearing gloves, masks and using hand gel while your out and traveling... except it might not be as safe as you think....
 Theres fake N95 masks that are just cloth.
 Then theres latex gloves that frankly should be banned.  If you have a severe latex allergy just putting them on could kill you, even touching a surface recently touched by someone else wearing latex gloves could do it...  Rubbish I hear someone say, not so I had to resuscitate someone who did just that. If we hadn't had oxygen and adrenaline to administer he'd have died there, and his "crime" touching a door handle that rubber gloves had touched before him.
 Then theres fake antibacterial hand gel. Yes there are despicable people out there making and selling fake hand gel.  Most of it it just liquid with if your lucky some alcohol, although it needs to be at least 60% to kill Corvid 19, many tested contained just 11%.
 Trading standards siezed 2.25 million fake masks and gel at Heathrow alone, with another 4.25 million found to be making false claims about their contents.  Even branded names are being cloned to make them look like reputable products.

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