tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post4766489440276570016..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: COVID-19: Time for a dose of realismPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-45815221920175746482020-03-02T19:05:16.095-06:002020-03-02T19:05:16.095-06:00The advice is to stay home if you feel sick. But ...The advice is to stay home if you feel sick. But I don't get paid if I stay home, and the rent doesn't get paid if I don't get paid, so I'm going to be exposed. Isolation simply isn't an option.<br /><br />I'm in pretty good health; I expect to be among the 80% with few or no symptoms. The preps I have will have to get me through--at least medication won't be a problem. <br /><br />Not much of a plan, but better than most.Antibubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10194983440707702769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-92197813167095953722020-03-02T17:28:39.993-06:002020-03-02T17:28:39.993-06:00Just wore my first pair of nitrile gloves out on a...Just wore my first pair of nitrile gloves out on a shopping run today. I felt silly at first, but then there's the door handle, and the boxes that are handled by the clerk, then the debit touchpad, then the pen to sign, and then I didn't feel so silly.<br /><br />I haven't graduated to a mask yet, but I'm in Washington State, and it's here.<br /><br />One last thing: No Westerner or western agency (other than intelligence agencies) actually knows the fatality rate of the Coronavirus. That's China's real gift to the world from its drive for social control. We'll certainly find out just how bad it is in the next couple of weeks, and it will be too late for most people at that point to avoid infection.<br /><br />So don't feel silly. 7916https://www.blogger.com/profile/01881208775905627898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-8261006102871082062020-03-02T14:40:11.042-06:002020-03-02T14:40:11.042-06:00We have, for years, followed a regimen that has pr...We have, for years, followed a regimen that has proved to be a good method for preventing illness. Neither of us has experienced even a "common cold" in 5 years.<br /><br />We started doing this after an illness that created issues for my wife resulting in renal damage. <br /><br />We keep our own wipes in vehicles. For shopping, we take a handful, and I wipe the cart and allow sufficient wet dwell time. Then she pushes, and I am the "dirty" person; she points out what is needed, and I fill the cart and perform the entire checkout process, including loading and unloading from the vehicle. <br /><br />Upon entering the vehicle we close and lock the doors, and she retrieves more wipes and we cleanse our hands and anything in the car we have touched (handles, steering wheel, shifter, etc). We also use this regimen when obtaining fuel for vehicles.<br /><br />Everything is brought into the house, and then every item is thoroughly wiped with disinfectant wipes and allowed to air dry. Only then are items placed in cupboards and cabinets.<br /><br />We also follow the following practice that I have provided to adult family members: 1. What do we need to do: examine daily hygiene practices (re. hand washing, for minimum of 2 minutes with soap and hot water) training small children to wash hands every two hours (just because, to create the habit), after every bathroom visit, before all eating, etc <br />2. Never touch anything above your neck with anything below your neck. 3. Wipe all surfaces (counters, door/flush handles, etc) with a bleach solution everyday. If anyone in the household is ill, then multiple times a day, and anything they touch. 4. All sick people in a household are quarantined to one room and bathroom. Do not share a bedroom or bathroom with a sick family member. 5. Mask and gloves when cleaning the sick room; sick rooms cleaned every day. 6. Mask and gloves when serving the sick person; sick person wears a mask while receiving any care. 7. Kitchens and bathrooms cleaned and disinfected every day, or more frequently for illness use/reasons.<br /><br />We no longer live in a 1st world country. It is only romantic to think so. Yes, many of us maintain first world practices. Nonetheless, the intentional devolution in culture (by a planned illegal invasion to dilute the electorate), and the intentional stultification welcomed by the majority of users of government schools has created a brave new world.<br /><br />https://twitter.com/KashJackson2018/status/1234003495734390784?s=20<br /><br />He probably has an Obama phone...think of him the next time you touch anything outside of your house. And it does not matter where you live. He is just the extreme case.BFRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09446254517738219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-19410193784044904112020-03-02T11:57:42.260-06:002020-03-02T11:57:42.260-06:00I have always had a firm rule after shopping. No ...I have always had a firm rule after shopping. No touching or getting near wife until groceries are put away and then I go decontaminate and put on fresh clothes.<br /><br />It tends to cut down on me passing things off to her, as my immune system is strong like bull, while hers is more delicate.<br /><br />It's not a bad idea for anyone coming in from dealing with idiots outside to do a decom shower, including cleaning of nasal passages. Plus, it's nice washing the weight (and filth) of the world off of yourself before settling down in your own private castle, bug-out bunker, whatever.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-56248770312876023552020-03-02T11:15:32.819-06:002020-03-02T11:15:32.819-06:00Concur with all. One slightly worrying item is tha...Concur with all. One slightly worrying item is that many of the current drug prescriptions, including most BP meds use active ingredients from China. Pharma is now hunting for backups, but I do expect to see some disruption/med change if this stuff lasts more than 3 months.Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-10246697143726177602020-03-02T09:40:30.025-06:002020-03-02T09:40:30.025-06:00There's always been a "use the store-prov...There's always been a "use the store-provided wipes on the cart handle" contingent, I've noticed more people are doing it now. Saw someone in the grocery store over the weekend with nitrile gloves on, one of those things that, at first blush, seems like a good idea. But....their plan was put the bags in the car, strip the gloves, drive home. I asked them about the rest of the process: "Any idea how many people, and who they might be, have handled those items by the time you get them home? What's your plan for that?" <br /><br />At the production facility, package handling and boxing is probably all done by machine, but in the store items are unboxed and stacked by hand, handled by customers who read the label and then put the item back, handled by cashiers as they're scanned, handled again by baggers, and that doesn't count the stuff in the air that settles out on the shelves and the items on it or what's coming from the people you're standing in line with, the electronic pen you sign the charge machine with, etc. <br /><br />IIRC, someone tested the touch screens on kiosks at McDonalds stores in the UK and found fecal meterial on every one tested. No idea what else was found on them, but I doubt whatever it was it's any better.<br /><br />Grocery stores seem like pretty good disease distribution mechanisms. So, let's all get the same stuff handled by the same people delivered to our homes and stay away from stores!! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com