When can I stop wearing a mask?
The truth is, no one ever told you to wear a mask 24 hours a day. Even if the epidemic isn't over, masks have their own expiration dates and occasions for use, and they're in such short supply now that there's no need to bring them, so it's perfectly fine to go without them!
When is it really unnecessary to wear a mask during an epidemic?
First, no one in your family is infected, nor do you have other respiratory diseases, this time you are at home there is no need to wear a mask;
Second, a person living outside, belonging to the diaspora, in the residence is even less necessary to wear a mask;
Third, for example, if you go to the outdoor activities alone, there is no one around or the density of people is relatively low, and the place is ventilated, it is also not necessary to wear a mask. And the place is ventilated, there is no need to wear a mask.
Fourth, in the ventilation, the flow of people is particularly small place workers, learning children, children, there is no need to bring.
Of course, we advocate that there is no need to wear a mask when do not wear, not just for everyone to save masks so simple, if you have recently paid attention to our front-line medical staff, you will know that a long time to wear, it is a matter of how intolerable, not as a last resort, the medical staff will not be so long to wear a mask.
Compared to wearing a mask for a long time will lead to hypoxia heat stroke, local skin indentation, redness, swelling, and even allergies (pictured below), once they take off the mask, at any time, they may be facing a greater risk of being infected by viruses!
Since January 20, our country Zhong Nanshan academician revealed "1 patient infected 14 medical staff" case, even if the medical staff wear masks, will see from time to time there are reports of medical staff were infected. And according to the Health Commission's latest bulletin, as of 24:00 on February 11, China's current a **** there are 1,716 medical personnel, was diagnosed with the new coronavirus infection, accounting for 3.8% of the nation's diagnosed cases, and six of the medical staff died.
So, wearing a mask for a long time is a must for frontline medical staff, and leaving the N95 better protection level masks for them is the most important!
And we as ordinary people, it is completely unnecessary to wear medical N95 so high-level masks, and even if it is advocated to wear disposable medical masks, we do not recommend that you wear unnecessary masks in the case I just mentioned above, it is a waste of health care resources, Because even a disposable medical masks for the because even the disposable medical masks, for the prevention and control of epidemics now, are scarce resources to be treasured, they have a wearing time limit, generally wear 4 hours to be replaced, and basically belong to the disposable supplies, can not be reused.
So, to reduce certain occasions, the timing is not necessary to wear masks behavior, the same is a dedication to the prevention and control of the epidemic!
When can I return to normal life, you ask?
I just want to say that this issue is now no expert to say clearly, even now we trust Zhong Nanshan academician, in the interview two days ago, he also said:
No one can make a strict inflection point prediction, but through some mathematical modeling analysis, but also in conjunction with the actual situation to see, now the country's new cases of The pace is slowly slowing down from the original, and the peak should occur in mid to late February, while the inflection point of the epidemic is determined by the prevention and control of the return peak.
So, for now, we can only predict. But I want to say that everyone to return to normal life as soon as possible, as an ordinary person, must be from our personal will be better N95 protective masks to the front-line medical staff, the need to wear masks place to wear masks, reduce the behavior of unnecessary wearing masks began!