Thread by @Mari_Knutson

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Emergency Pandemic Management Plan: COVID_19

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Goal 1. Contain COVID_19

1.1 Stop large public gatherings
1.2 Clean your interior dwelling
1.3 Social Distance/Educate
1.4 Essential Travel Procedure

Goal 2. Plan Quarantine Strategy within your home.

2.1 Make Lists:
2.2 Take Considerations:
2.3 Community Support:

Ready, here we go....

1.1 Stop large public gatherings

Everyone else not performing vital public services should go home and prepare for a two-week pause to our current madness.

Public services include healthcare professionals, fire and police staff, the military, disaster response workers, public utility workers, mail package, and shipping system personnel, food supply personnel, and those whose jobs are in the supply chain...

...or manufacturing of medical equipment, testing kits, laboratories, anything that would disrupt pandemic response. This is not a complete list, and should be adjusted according to circumstance and location.

1.2 Clean your interior dwelling

If you are not participating in essential public services, before getting set up for working from home (if available), the first thing you should do is clean your interior dwelling.

House before job. All areas that will be occupied in the coming 2-4 weeks should be wiped down with disinfectant.

Community Areas:
Wash your hands, don’t touch your face with your hands, wear a mask, latex gloves, whatever the CDC recommends to do in order to make it virus free.

Clean electronic devices and phones, light switches, light pulls, door knobs, cabinet handles, drawers, cupboards, sinks, counters, tables, all solid surfaces, fridge door hands and doors, community dishes like sugar bowls, and probably some kitchen items that you have all...

handled recently. Each person except children (that means you teenagers and tweens) will be responsible for the room you will be sleeping in. After you finish, wash your gloved hands, then take the gloves off and wash your hands again. Store washed latex gloves somewhere to dry

, you may need them later and will regret throwing them away. I recommend using gloves, a bucket, a bar rag or similar, hot water and a disinfectant, using as directed on the label. That way everyone can participate and work together while sharing a bucket.

Using a spray bottle slows things down when you have to share. You will be needing a lot of disinfectant in the near future and should not squander it on one cleaning.

Have a spray bottle with cleaner on the ready. Make sure to label what’s in it and its concentration (ex: 10% bleach). Maybe have two spray bottles, something non-bleach disinfectant, labeled, and easily identifiable from the other.

Twice per day spray down the things that need it, depending on your household activity.

Bathroom: Continue to the bathroom and clean that.

Bedroom: Bedroom surfaces will also need to be cleaned, sheets and pillow cases can be washed. I would, but that may be overkill.

Laundry: Everybody should sort their own laundry, and handle it appropriately. Especially if someone has been coughing into their elbow! Wear gloves, masks, whatever is required to be safe.

1.3 Social Distance/Educate

Promote, educate and require social distancing practices to immediate family groups and other domestic dwellers. Use CDC and Health Department recommendations.

Have everyone read or be informed about how to manage social distancing in your household. Discuss this as a group, but stand far enough back to begin the social distancing process. This may sound ridiculous, but it is not.

Entire families can get this and have difficulty taking care of each other. Don’t rely on the health care system to be able to take care of your whole family-

prevent that by keeping each other safe from one another until 6 days of separation and social distancing are completed with no symptoms present for any family member.

1.4 Essential Travel Procedure

Wash your hands, don’t touch your face with your hands, wear a mask, latex gloves, whatever the CDC recommends to do in order to make it virus free.

Consider your phone, debit and membership cards, keys, glasses, leather and vinyl bags, totes, interior seats, steering wheel, shifter, lights, signals, radio buttons or dials, and doors, inside and hands inside and out. All doors and trunk too.

Do this when you are feeling well. Trust me, if you are feeling sick and need to go to the hospital, it would be nice to know that you are safely transported and that the person driving isn’t going to get it, while trying to save you.

Wash your hands again.

Bring a shopping list that you can read and handle without taking your gloves off (not your phone, if your gloves make it difficult to manage your phone while wearing).

If you are going to wear a mask, put that on now. Look in the mirror. Yep, you look great.

Get out of your clean car, lock the doors, and put on a pair of gloves that are for traveling throughout the greater public space. That means, your gloved hands will not be trusted to touch your face, and you can push or carry the cart freely.

While getting plastic bags open at the vegetable section, I was wearing winter lined gloves and they didn’t work for opening plastic bags or using the keypad at the checkout. If you just wear latex, that shouldn’t be a problem.

You have to remove those gloves when you get to your car, however, and before you go inside and touch everything, your hands must be clean. If not sanitize with hand sanitizer or go wash your hands, if you can. If the sterility breaks down on your journey, don’t panic.

Just make sure to not touch your face, wash your hands when you get home, and then go clean your car.

Consider that you now need to be more socially distanced than the other people in the house under quarantine. You are the designate outside person, and you should not be anywhere near the most vulnerable in the household. Keep everyone safe.

Goal 2. Plan Quarantine Strategy within your home.

2.1 Make Lists:

What needs to be done? Assign tasks to individuals.

What are the items you currently need?

What are the items you will need in a couple of days, or weeks?

What do you need help with?

What are your concerns?

What are your questions?

Don’t take it all on yourself if you have options! Consult NextDoor or your immediate neighbors for community support.

2.2 Take Considerations:

1.Try not to act agitated or show fear around the children and young adults. How we manage ourselves determines how traumatized they will be by this crisis.

Pregnant women and people with underlying health issues are particularly vulnerable and should be considered as well. My Grandma never forgot the Spanish flu. It traumatized 3 generations.

2.Anxiety is not good on your immune system. Everyone step back about 6’ from one another and take a deep, slow breath. Slowly breathe out, and repeat 3 times. You can’t panic if you can make yourself do that. It helps.

3.Take and ask questions, plan your lives, & work according to your lists. Kids can go make their rooms cozy, parents can work on disaster stuff like getting phone numbers ready and tending to their parents, the rest of us will do what we need to do to take care of ourselves.

4.Remember to include yoga, meditation, and your regular work-out routine, if you are feeling well. Put breakfast, lunch, and dinner on the list. If you don’t, the day will slip on by and you will have spent the entire day sucked into your phones, TV’s, and computer screens.

Try to turn it all off. Grab a book, an art project, or go out in your yard for fresh air. Just distance yourself as much as possible. Maybe one person practice keyboard or piano? Or clean in between users?

If they allow travel in your area, go to a local trail, Natural Land or Park and take a walk, keeping to small family groups, when possible. Bring the dog if allowed.

5.I don’t know what to say to parents. Your kids will need support, but you also need to be safe. And keep them safe. Somehow you will have to figure out a strategy. If you find something that works, please share with others. Air hugs are heart breaking.

For pdf versions or word docs, please DM me with your email address and I will forward.

6 My biggest fear was going to the hospital when I didn’t need it, then test positive for COVID 19 and be held there against my will, taking up vital room for someone who really needed it. I also don’t like being trapped!