Thread by @Shoq

LISTEN: After 2 weeks of social distancing, I’d like to share some #coronatips you might find useful for coping with #coronavirus in the wild.

Having watched many, it’s clear that most are virtual walking UBER drivers for this damn bug. Don’t be one of them:
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SANITIZERS AND ALCOHOL
1) Carry everywhere, two 6 oz spray bottles of A) sanitizer, and B) rubbing alcohol for spraying your “touch rag” (paper towel) for opening doors, using pens, etc.

Sanitizer is weaker (and harder to make). Use it on your skin, not surfaces. 2/12

2) Get in habit of keeping a few folded paper towels (touch rags) on you at all times. (I keep a stack in the car and by the front door). Never leave the car without all 3 items on your person.

3) Re-spritz the touch-rag whenever you touch any door, chair, or … 3/12

surface. Wipe fingertips on edge of the rag as needed.

4) Always use the touch rag over faucets to turn the basin water on and off. Leave it on the handle while you wash your hands (faucets are one of THE most infamous transmission points) and then set it down … 4/12

carefully while you dry your hands. Then retrieve it to open the lavatory door as you exit. Spray the rag again, use your sanitizer, and spritz it too with alcohol. I also give the door handle a spritz as a public courtesy.

5) Replenish your walking-around stock … 5/12

of touch-rags whenever you see paper towels or napkins.

GLOVES
After a lot of personal and googled experience, I feel these give you a false sense of security and aren’t worth much for daily life outside a clinical setting. Getting them on and off to use your … 6/12

phone is a chore, and you end up touching things inadvertently no matter how much you think you’re not. And you just have to sanitize them while you use them anyway.

But they can be useful for long stretches when you need reminding not to touch your face. When you … 7/12

see them, you freeze and don’t touch. It works. But again, consider them like skin and wash and sanitize (and spritz) often. I rotate 4 latex pairs in the car so one is always 3 days past the last use. (The virus doesn’t live that long). Never reuse them same-day … 8/12

because just getting them off usually contaminates them. Keep several with you if you really need them. They fold up very small. I use them less and less, but when I do, I use these because they are over-sized and easy to get on fast:
amazon.com/gp/product/B00…
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STOP TALKING AND TELL OTHERS TO STFU
Corona is spread by droplets. And a LOT of people are spitters, spewers, shouters and motor mouths. They make a lot of droplets.
And all of us can blow hot air. Now it can be deadly to do that. So don’t. There is no need to … 10/12

greet or speak to most people as you might normally do, and they don’t need to be greeting you back right now. Especially when you just pass by one another. And you don’t need to speak to strangers on the elevator, nor in a checkout line. We all talk too much … 11/12

anyway, and this is a good excuse to cut down. Learn to nod seductively, or in some other civil way :)

I’ll be adding more as things evolve. This is not going to an easy year. Sharing our learnin’ can help us all. Reply anywhere within the thread with your own. 12/12