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wnylib

(25,183 posts)
31. I wipe down everything
Wed Jan 26, 2022, 09:14 AM
Jan 2022

that I bring into my apartment that can be wiped. I spray cardboard and mail. Or read the mail, then set it aside for a couple days or toss it, depending on what it is, and wash my hands after handling it.

I wash fresh vegetables with water anyway before using them. If they are going to be coooked, the virus will be killed. If they are going to be eaten raw in a salad, I make sure that I rub and scrub them before eating them. Can't use chemicals or soap on them.

I wipe down my keys, credit card, eyeglasses (plastic), and all purchased items as soon as I get in the door. Then wash my hands afterward. I spray the bags that I use for shopping.

When I am out of my apartment, I wear an N95 and use a tissue or cheap paper napkin to touch elevator buttons and open doors because dozens of people touch those things.

But I am a retired senior living by myself. I have time to do this. I don't have children running to greet me at the door and grab packages to see what's in them. I don't have to go from home to work to shopping and then home again. I don't have to get dinner on the table right away when I get home. It is much harder for other people to follow a regimen like mine after shopping.

But, since I am over 65 and have underlying health issues, I think that it's a good idea to take the precautions that I do.

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If you are at risk from immunocompromise (or even if you are NOT) wear a damned N95 mask hlthe2b Jan 2022 #1
Good luck with that spinbaby Jan 2022 #24
Exactly! Desert_Leslie Jan 2022 #40
+1! nt Pobeka Jan 2022 #42
I am the only one at work who has not been infected liberal N proud Jan 2022 #2
You must be naturally immune. Anyone tell you that yet? twodogsbarking Jan 2022 #3
I always say that if I survived the Fraternity House liberal N proud Jan 2022 #45
Doing great, liberal N proud! BComplex Jan 2022 #38
You may have been infected but without any symptoms. former9thward Jan 2022 #51
That chart is compelling, except to people unwilling to read it and accept it. NCjack Jan 2022 #4
Anti-vaxxers are now telling us they're "done with Covid." sop Jan 2022 #5
They're done with covid but covid is not done with them. wnylib Jan 2022 #7
I'm done caring whether anti-vaxxers live or die. sop Jan 2022 #13
I don't wish them harm or death, but I also wnylib Jan 2022 #23
What does that even mean? IronLionZion Jan 2022 #32
it means that taking basic precautions equals tyranny in their pathetic tiny minds Skittles Jan 2022 #48
They don't take basic precautions IronLionZion Jan 2022 #52
Eric Topol has posted another chart that showed... Botany Jan 2022 #6
I'm not vaxxed, and don't intend to be EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #8
Why? moose65 Jan 2022 #9
Post removed Post removed Jan 2022 #12
Hey, good luck with all that. sop Jan 2022 #15
If you've ben around since Eisenhower then you should especially get it Polybius Jan 2022 #18
This Covid is not even close to samplegirl Jan 2022 #22
Swine flu! lol Blues Heron Jan 2022 #28
just tell your doc you want yours strained through a sieve Blues Heron Jan 2022 #29
Do you think those reasons are worth risking your life for? Farmer-Rick Jan 2022 #34
Still makes no sense! Nt USALiberal Jan 2022 #47
Explain your problem with the vaccine? Sounds fishy to me. USALiberal Jan 2022 #10
You do know the vaccine is safer than aspirin? Emile Jan 2022 #11
Post removed Post removed Jan 2022 #14
It's your decision. I never liked to gamble Emile Jan 2022 #19
I took it and was terrified samplegirl Jan 2022 #25
LOL Emile Jan 2022 #37
The most monitored vaccines in history with the most doses delivered worldwide... hlthe2b Jan 2022 #17
You will be getting COVID then. lagomorph777 Jan 2022 #33
I got the flu shot and then I caught a cold! Iggo Jan 2022 #41
yup Skittles Jan 2022 #50
why would you not get vaxxed Skittles Jan 2022 #49
Good luck with that IronLionZion Jan 2022 #53
Yahoo News had a recent article about wnylib Jan 2022 #16
That is so effed up. I still spray everything down ecstatic Jan 2022 #21
I wipe down everything wnylib Jan 2022 #31
Wow! I didn't think it was possible for anyone to be more diligent ecstatic Jan 2022 #46
I was wondering about this very thing Tumbulu Jan 2022 #39
The unvaxxed people I know are insisting that omicron is like the common cold ecstatic Jan 2022 #20
My wife and youngest son caught the 'Rona. mwooldri Jan 2022 #26
Omicron is the worst version of Covid, period Johnny2X2X Jan 2022 #27
Not true in Gauteng Province. Tomconroy Jan 2022 #30
Vaccines Johnny2X2X Jan 2022 #35
The graph needs to show the timeframe, it could easily be very misleading. thesquanderer Jan 2022 #36
You have to dig, but the timeframe is Sep 4, 2021 to Dec 4 2021. n/t Pobeka Jan 2022 #43
Thank you! (n/t) thesquanderer Jan 2022 #44
I'll stick to my 100% of three mRNA shots and one non-mRNA shot and not getting COViD RB TexLa Jan 2022 #54
I got my booster yesterday. Boy do I feel like crap. Angleae Jan 2022 #55
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