Posted on 03/13/2020 11:11:42 AM PDT by Mariner
65C [149F] for 15 minutes.
Thanks PA Engineer!
Use gloves.
I carry gardening gloves in my console for pumping gas.
I do all the inside of the car stuff with my bare hands, open the gas cap, then before I insert my cc and touch any part of the pump, I put the gloves on.
I pay, pump the gas, get the receipt, then open the car door, sit down, then pull off the gloves and toss them on the floor. If I use vinyl or nitrile, I peel them off so they are inside out. For the gardening gloves, I don’t. I just slide them off.
Then I pick them up a couple days later.
I started with the gardening gloves because those pump handles are so stinking cold in the winter and I wasn’t going to ruin my good gloves on the pumps. Then it occurred to me that it was a great way to prevent the spread of disease.
The other thing to do, is pick the pump that’s been in the sun, if possible. The UV will have helped disinfect it.
I bought boxes of powdered milk in January. Never bought them before. Sits in my well stocked pantry now. Thanks to a null and void ping. Thankq
I also have thrown a tub of disinfecting wipes in my car and if I think I’ve touched anything,I get one out and wipe it all down, then that gets tossed on the floor as well for pick up when I get home.
I also take some sanitizing wipes the stores provide of the shopping carts and wipe down the keypad and touchscreen at the check out.
Those Hand Dryers in Public Restrooms Are Actually ‘Bacteria Bombs’
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/hand-dryers-in-public-restrooms-are-actually-bacteria-bombs
After seeing those tubs of Clorox wipes going for $50 on the internet, we have stashed the tub under the seat (along with the hand sanitizer). I have no doubt that cars are getting broken into to get it.
My stores is out of them.
This is a very important video for the “veterans” around here. It explains the psychology of crisis management (yes, that is what we have been doing here) and how to deal with our fellow Freepers as they continue to get that nasty and unwelcome wake up call in the coming days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogf6Hru2trE
We are the adults in the room. We can handle this...
409 spray has the same (or similar) active ingredient as the Clorox wipes. Our stores (Seattle) are out of 409, but I still found some on Amazon. Spray the 409 on a rag and soak down the steering wheel, etc. Same as the wipes, it has to remain wet for 30 seconds. Allow to air dry.
Hydrogen Peroxide (3%) is also effective but takes longer. Costco had a new shipment of it in and the shelves were full. Excerpt:
“The time required for inactivating three serotypes of rhinovirus using a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution was 6–8 minutes...”
The above excerpt came from the link below that goes over numerous chemical disinfectants. Alcohol is very good at destroying the virus. 70% is better than 91 or 100%. You can buy higher percent and dilute it. Amazon still has some.
And mix the 91 or 99 with aloe to make hand sanitizer.
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection/disinfection-methods/chemical.html
I agree. I kind of liked Cuomo today. Yikes.
Restaurants open, yes; I was at a
99 in Salem MA last night.Crowded.
Performance venues though—two
theatres are postponing music shows
(ban on gatherings above 250) while
one says their capacity is 150
and they stay open.”We disinfect
tables and chairs, workers wash
hands and stay home when sick.”
Two college radio stations are
stopping DJ shows (only airing
automation)—the one at Salem
State U for 2 weeks and the one
at Tufts U for 1.5 months!
I will say though that a blues
artist I know had planned his
CD release party for last night
at Theodore’s in Springfield MA.
Got cancelled. (I have visited
Spfld and ate there once)
“That is incredible. I can’t see why anyone would stand in line when you know everyone is going for the same basic stuff.”
I guess it might be rude, but why they feel the need to push an empty shopping cart for the 3 hours they’re waiting to get into the store?
Not being someone who waits for a panic to stock up may be depriving me of a better understanding regarding how they think.
“What is unclear is if she was on the ship at the same time as the American tourists who have become infected. It sounds like she may have taken a cruise at an earlier point in time.”
She was on it. It was a relatively large group of Taiwanese Americans and Taiwanese nationals - after the cruise they all went to their home countries. A bunch (maybe all) of them got sick. The CDC here said no-dice to testing, since Egypt wasn’t a hot spot, Taiwan tested and found them positive (case #39 in Taiwan was the first). At that point CDC relented and allowed testing of the Americans.
Based on Case #39, the Taiwanese in Texas already knew the infection had arrived and were adjusting to it (this was the first case in Houston, maybe the first in Texas). It took nearly a week for the CDC to say the obvious (pathetic).
At least that’s my understanding, from friends that I have in that community.
“I read those early threads and spent two and a half weeks out buying stuff. I don’t know if I have enough, but we’ll get by. I also bought not only food but all of the over the counter meds that we take and tried to make sure all of our prescriptions were filled...No long lines for me.”
I don’t think the lines will be permanent, more like surges. So, when the lines dip, we can go out and top off, if needed.
“There is a hurricane headed straight for TX and it’s name is Coronavirus. There is a huge difference between trekking out today vs. trekking out for more tp in 2 weeks when there’s an inch of CV shedding all over.”
That was my rationale for not ‘waiting’ to see if it was real (as if China faked their Wuhan response). I saw people in Asia lined up for masks...really not even lined up, since they were 10-across, just a mass of humanity, with many of them likely sick.
So I figured it was best to hit the stores when they were empty (in the mornings), no purchase limits, no shortages, and very few, if any virus shedders. And 90% of what I bought, I would use later regardless.
...and many others here did the same, and were ridiculed. Ridiculed by those now standing in those lines, some of them, no doubt, picking up the virus right there in line.
Probably got one inside observing cameras in the security room and ready to call the others in if a riot breaks out
“LA shut down schools. Now provisions being made for 40 school family centers, for 3 meals a day plus babysitting (80% are below poverty level so qualify for free meals), which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense difference between keeping schools open and siting babysitting centers”
That’s TOO FUNNY. They just don’t get it. They figure if the schools are closed then the virus won’t spread...so they pack the kids into daycare centers and all is fine!
This is the kind of crap that the CDC should have figured out and been ready to respond to decades ago...but it will take them a month to figure out what LA is doing is probably undercutting their social separation goals, just a bit.
World War Z
pandemic caused zombie apocalypse movie
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