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brin_bellway[cw: (fairly mild) illness, (mild) food]
What would it mean to return to "normal" precautions? For me, it means this:
Do not touch your face after having touched things from a space that is not yours.
Do not touch your food after having touched things from a space that is not yours. (Hold your granola bar by the wrapper, eat your French fries with a fork, etc; alternatively, use hand sanitiser first.)
Wash your hands upon returning from a space that is not yours.
While in your own space, do not touch objects (belly bag, groceries, etc) that entered said space within the past three days. If touching is necessary, wipe the object with disinfectant first. If the object cannot handle disinfectant, wash your hands after touching it, though the full twenty seconds is not required. If you can't do any of these things, you'll just have to grit your teeth and let it slide: this usually only happens on sandwich night.
(a new addition after COVID-19 made me realise how much I'd been neglecting airborne routes) Wear a mask--medical-grade surgical if you can get it, cloth if you can't--in indoor public spaces between October and April, except when eating or drinking. Maybe wear a mask for public transit year-round: it's not a priority for me to figure that one out, because a bus is simultaneously an indoor space and an outdoor space and allergy season overlaps with cold-and-flu season, so in practice I'm going to be wearing masks on buses year-round regardless of whether or not there's a specific rule about it.
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(If that sounds like a lot to you, bear in mind what's at stake.)
What would it mean to return to "normal" precautions? For me, it means this:
Do not touch your face after having touched things from a space that is not yours.
Do not touch your food after having touched things from a space that is not yours. (Hold your granola bar by the wrapper, eat your French fries with a fork, etc; alternatively, use hand sanitiser first.)
Wash your hands upon returning from a space that is not yours.
While in your own space, do not touch objects (belly bag, groceries, etc) that entered said space within the past three days. If touching is necessary, wipe the object with disinfectant first. If the object cannot handle disinfectant, wash your hands after touching it, though the full twenty seconds is not required. If you can't do any of these things, you'll just have to grit your teeth and let it slide: this usually only happens on sandwich night.
(a new addition after COVID-19 made me realise how much I'd been neglecting airborne routes) Wear a mask--medical-grade surgical if you can get it, cloth if you can't--in indoor public spaces between October and April, except when eating or drinking. Maybe wear a mask for public transit year-round: it's not a priority for me to figure that one out, because a bus is simultaneously an indoor space and an outdoor space and allergy season overlaps with cold-and-flu season, so in practice I'm going to be wearing masks on buses year-round regardless of whether or not there's a specific rule about it.
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(If that sounds like a lot to you, bear in mind what's at stake.)
