[CobaltBlue]

- Surgical masks are no good unless they are N-95, which is what is used for treating tuberculosis patients.

- Latex gloves for handling contaminated clothing and personal effects if a member of your household gets sick.

- Ten days food and water for every member of the household, including pets, in case you are quarantined.

- A stash of cash in case you are quarantined so you can order things to be delivered to the door, although if I were the delivery company I'd rather be paid via debit or credit card, and leave the delivery at the door, so just keep enough liquidity in your accounts to be able to do this.

- Bleach water will kill the virus, is my understanding, and so will alcohol hand cleaner.

- I believe you live out in the country, so you probably don't have to worry about roaches spreading it from your neighbors, but if I lived in an apartment complex or a townhouse complex or a trailer park I'd get the place sprayed for roaches.

>>What are the dirtiest public places?Here they are in order of dirtiness. Playgrounds have most contaminated surfaces. Here are the other top eight:
*Public telephones
*Public rest-room surfaces
*Counter pens
*Chair armrests
*Elevator buttons
*Escalator handrails
*Shopping cart handrails
*Grocery store refrigerator handles<<
http://experts.longisland.com/children/archive_article.php?ExpArtID=478

- Wash your hands.

- Don't sit on public toilet seats.

[Judith Anne]

Some excellent suggestions in your post, and interesting information.

Spread through the air, however...that's where isolation comes in...

[blam]

Thanks. I think I have it all covered then.

[ninenot]

Don't sit on public toilet seats.From the rest of your list, I also deduce that one should not:

---sit on elevator buttons

---sit on grocery store refrigerator handles.

[thinking]

I am not discrediting your info...but, I would like to add the latex gloves can carry the virus on the gloves, therefore one needs a series of gloves to ensure that the virus is not transferred, by the gloves to different objects/people....in other words you need to change gloves for each task...not using the same glove for numerous activity...

As an example: I recently wanted to purchased an ice cream cone from a young lady, who put on latex gloves and then proceeded to wipe her running nose on the back of the gloves, I called her attention to what she had done, but it didn't register with her..needles to say I didn't buy the ice cream that place.

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