Date: 2021-04-24 10:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] brin_bellway
Yeah, I suppose they might let you in for that.

We do in fact have a mere single bathroom, and we do in fact worry about the transmission vector there. While I was waiting for my test result I wore a mask into the bathroom when possible (so, not when cleaning my teeth), cleaned the sink handles behind me, used a separate towel, and propped the door open when I left.

We once impressed some doctors by weathering a salmonella case† with zero intra-household transmission: apparently it's quite difficult to do that while sharing a bathroom.

I definitely want at least one more toilet: one is none, as I am reminded every time it clogs. Someday I would like to install another grid-connected toilet: as for the meantime (or if/when the water goes out), I try looking into alternative toilet arrangements every so often, but all I've found so far is stuff that takes [more spoons than someone with a flu-like illness would have] to operate and/or stuff that would break under Mom's weight. I wonder if we should just find one with only the second problem and try to work out a system where the grid toilet is always Mom's.

(They started vaccinating higher-priority essential workers here this week: restaurant workers are in the next category down from that, so at current rates Brother and I will likely be eligible for vaccination within a fortnight. That will almost certainly buy us some quantity of time before the next disaster in which to figure out a more resilient toilet solution.)

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†Brother has learned a valuable lesson about cooking his chicken thoroughly.
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