2020 - Tips for How to Stay Clean in Australia
Unless you've been hiding under a rock somewhere, you're well aware of the panic and hysteria that 2020 is causing. This info isn't to give you medical advice. Instead, it's to help to give you tips for how you can stay clean.
I'm not a medical practitioner, so I can't give advice on medical topics. I'm just a person who does her best to help to empower people to be able to make better decisions about what they can do to help their families.
This info below is from James Robb, MD FCAP - Fellow of the College of American Pathologists. I don't know James personally, though his insights may be of interest to you, and is shared with James' permission.
John Robb says " As some of you may recall, when I (John Robb) was a professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I (John) was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses (the 1970s). I (John) was the first to demonstrate the number of genes the virus contained. Since then, I have kept up with the coronavirus field and its multiple clinical transfers into the human population (e.g., SARS, MERS), from different animal sources."
"The current projections for its expansion in the US are only probable, due to continued insufficient worldwide data, but it is most likely to be widespread in the US by mid to late March and April."
Here is what I have done and the precautions that I take and will take. These are the same precautions I currently use during our influenza seasons, except for the mask and gloves
1) No Handshaking : Use a fist bump, slight bow, elbow bump, etc.
2) Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches. elevator buttons, etc.. Lift the gasoline dispenser with a paper towel or use a disposable glove.
3) Open doors with your closed fist or hip - do not grasp the handle with your hand, unless there is no other way to open the door. Especially important on bathroom and post office/commercial doors.
4) Use disinfectant wipes at the stores when they are available, including wiping the handle and child seat in grocery carts.
5) Wash your hands with soap for 10-20 seconds and/or use a greater than 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer whenever you return home from ANY activity that involves locations where other people have been.
6) Keep a bottle of sanitizer available at each of your home's entrances. AND in your car for use after getting gas or touching other contaminated objects when you can't immediately wash your hands.
7) If possible, cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue and discard. Use your elbow only if you have to. The clothing on your elbow will contain infectious virus that can be passed on for up to a week or more.
What John has stocked in preparation for the pandemic spread to the USA:
1) Latex or nitrile latex disposable gloves for use when going shopping, using the gasoline pump, and all other outside activity when you come in contact with contaminated areas.
Note: According to John - This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and sneezing. This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all the surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week on average - everything that is associated with infected people will be contaminated and potentially infectious. The virus is on surfaces and you will not be infected unless your unprotected face is directly coughed or sneezed upon.
Stock up now with hand sanitizers. The hand sanitizers must be alcohol-based and greater than 60% alcohol to be effective.
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