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Respiratory Technical Specialist at Sundström Safety AB: Helping people to live longer, healthier lives

As we get ever closer to lockdown being eased in the UK, could I make a request. Lobby your MP & could I kindly ask those of you that have the correct ears, please pass this message on. We are bombarded with ads about staying at home – quite correct. But can we start to change the narrative. Could the govt please think about making some ads about wearing PPE? Guidance regarding what the difference between various masks is, how to wear & dispose of them etc. How to wear gloves, remove them & of course still washing our hands. I can’t really speak for all, but I’d be fairly certain that ALL the main manufacturers would be happy to assist. Either that or we risk getting a tsunami 2nd wave when people wear the wrong masks, ‘adapt them’ ignore social distancing & not even take off their gloves to eat some lunch! Enclosed are a few examples that have been sent to me recently. I’m not trying to put these people down – I can no more operate a checkout than I can pilot an aircraft…I haven’t been shown how to do either. Believe it or not, the first image is the chair of the Congressional task force created to focus on COVID-19.