Posted on 03/08/2020 6:15:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Publix supermarkets are limiting the amount of hand soaps, hand sanitizers and other items that customers can buy because of increased demand.
NBC affiliate WPTV-TV reports stores are limiting customers to purchasing a maximum of two items for products such as gloves, wipes, and rubbing alcohol.
Signs posted on store shelves say, "Because of increased demand, customers are limited to two (2) of each item in the hand soaps & sanitizers section. Thank you for your understanding."
Millennials won’t be buying soap. Only hand sanitizer will work. Just like they won’t drink water that doesn’t come out of a plastic bottle.
CDC sez first choice is soap and water =>
Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after going to the bathroom; before eating; and after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
If soap and water are not readily available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/prevention-treatment.html
That’s just my gardening team blowing my leaves. DO NOT PANIC!
Oh Good Grief. . .
You can make your own far more effective sanitizer. It’s called “Dakin’s Solution” and it is used in medical applications including in surgery all the time, including orally. You mix a 20 units of water to 1 unit of household bleach. . . It’s like strong swimming pool water. It kills everything. Make it a bit stronger, only 18 to 1, but not too much stronger. It doesn’t smell to great, but it will kill anything microscopic biological it touches in under two seconds. It converts to pure salt water within minutes, so it has to be made fresh fairly frequently, but it works.
Hand sanitizer is really ad for you.
I’ve been to two Walmart stores and a Harps grocery in the last few days.
Hand sanitizer and rubbing alcohol shelves were empty. Plenty of dish soap and toilet paper, bacterial wipes.
Next day the rubbing alcohol shelves were stocked. Only hand sanitizer was still empty, but then some dish soaps are also good hand cleaners.
As for the face masks, can a face mask really stop a virus which is much smaller than any bacteria? It seems to me that the only good a face mask does is stop most of the splatter when a person coughs or sneezes.
In a word, no. Viruses are too small for the fibers of a face mask to stop. They will stop airborne fluids that might carry them, but not the viruses themselves.
You’re better off just staying out of crowds and not touching your face.
Depends on the circumstances whether or not it is bad for you. Sometimes it is appropriate to use, others, especially routine use, it is bad.
I was at Publix yesterday and not e a sanitizer to be found. The same goes for bleach and wipes.
50,000 Americans die in auto accidents every year and yet no one gets nervous every time they drive to the store to buy hand sanitizer. We’d all be safer staying home.
I have kept a box of maybe 30 bars of hand soap in the attic for years. Initially it was partly because the brand/formulation I liked might be discontinued. And I figured, the stuff won’t spoil & it won’t get cheaper.
Pears glycerin soap used to be the pure stuff. It’s full of chemicals now. The Dollar store carried it when it was still pure. $1 for a good sized bar.
Things that...
Don’t take up a lot of room
Will never spoil
Are things you will always use for the rest of your life
Goes on a sale that is a killer price
You buy seriously ahead on.
The marketing people did good...and people fell for it.
The bottled water shelves at the local Walmart superstore are pretty much empty. And some of the bottled water is tap water from Fort Worth.
You can’t get hand sanitizer around here, but I haven’t heard of them rationing soap yet.
Northern CT/Western MA, stores are pretty much out of hand sanitizer, but still have limited supplies of hand soap and wipes. Bleach and bottled water is picked over more than usual but still available.
Rubbing alcohol and either glycerin or aloe. Smells like straight rubbing alcohol, but it works. Cut it with a little witch hazel or some perfume, but make sure it stays over 60% alcohol.
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