The Market Ticker - Open Letter To Texas RoadHouse

Dear Sirs;

Today I stopped at your Pelham AL location to dine in.

I understand the coronavirus concerns. However, you’re doing it wrong.

First, I’m very well versed in protocol when it comes to use of PPE, having worked with *very* dangerous reagents and other materials. Cloth masks are worthless, especially if you *touch them with your gloved hands*, which I observed multiple times. Second, gloves are worse than worthless in a viral situation since a virus can only live for minutes on unbroken bare skin, but it lives for *several hours* on a glove, as that is a impermeable surface. Unless RIGOROUS protocol is followed for changing of same after *EACH* potential contamination event cross-contamination risk is MUCH higher using vinyl or latex gloves than bare hands that are frequently washed. Sorry, those are facts, and if you want to prove it to yourself cut some jalapeno peppers with gloves on, take them off, then go use the bathroom and…….

(Click link to read more)