RecordAceFromNew
Swinging Member
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- West London
How are you protecting yourself against airborne transmission, apart from avoiding crowds/people, if at all?
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How are you protecting yourself against airborne transmission, apart from avoiding crowds/people, if at all?
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Minimum 1m spacing. If I can't then I would avoid
To give this context I was chatting with a friend in HK (a city with no lock down, residents are free to travel around as they see fit).
"What is everyone doing in HK to minimise risk of infection?"
"Staying at home"
Smokin Joe
Squire
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
I'm more fastidious about hand washing, but nothing else. Not a lot you can do really, we all have to go to work and shop and just trust to luck that we don't get it or if we do it will be a mild form. The media are doing their usual panic mongering in playing up the worst case scenario as a certainty, but the death rate is reckoned to be about 1% which is the same as for normal flu.
Keep calm and carry on will be my strategy.
Keep calm and carry on will be my strategy.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
1 metre will not stop a sneeze reaching you. It travels much further than that.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Correct. This is a risk I take. The reality is that most transmission is via shared surfaces and poor hand hygiene. Hence I'm hand washing, sanitising and wearing gloves on public transport
I'm more interested in what everyone else is doing. It's all well and good me doing these things but if the skeptics aren't doing anything then we're all f***ed
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
You've got to be extra careful if you've got a direct member of family likely to be adversely affected by the virus. I'm certainly making sure I wash my hands very thoroughly at work when I visit the loo, but I'm one of those that rubs eyes, touches face. I'm working in a Uni where many folk aren't hygenic - even if our loos are looked after fantastically by our cleaning staff, there are loads of folk that don't wash after visiting.
My son is in a risk group, but he's fit and healthy. If he got ill, we'd be looking after him - he can't just go to bed and sleep it off, with Type 1 we will need to be monitoring his blood levels constantly - if I got ill, I can just rest and not eat etc. We'd have to ensure he ate etc etc, and control his insulin pump if he wasn't able to. We can stay away from my parents, and especially MIL.
I've no worries for me, Mrs F, daughter, but son, parents and MIL, definately. If my parents got ill, then we'd have to risk getting ill to ensure they were OK. MIL, then that's a different case as we may be carriers by then and can't exactly go into the Nursing Home if they end up short of staff.
I've been to the chemist to ensure my son has enough supplies in - he's running low as he's just got a new pump (new set of stuff needed), so we've no reserve of blood test strips for his pump meter, but we have backups for his other meters. Just gone for more insulin too as any illness can either mean he needs very little, or loads. It's a gamble. Docs are a pain with test strips - they are expensive, but he's been told to test 8 times a day - a pack of strips can cost £30-£50 and will last 5 days - that's alot of money each month.
My son is in a risk group, but he's fit and healthy. If he got ill, we'd be looking after him - he can't just go to bed and sleep it off, with Type 1 we will need to be monitoring his blood levels constantly - if I got ill, I can just rest and not eat etc. We'd have to ensure he ate etc etc, and control his insulin pump if he wasn't able to. We can stay away from my parents, and especially MIL.
I've no worries for me, Mrs F, daughter, but son, parents and MIL, definately. If my parents got ill, then we'd have to risk getting ill to ensure they were OK. MIL, then that's a different case as we may be carriers by then and can't exactly go into the Nursing Home if they end up short of staff.
I've been to the chemist to ensure my son has enough supplies in - he's running low as he's just got a new pump (new set of stuff needed), so we've no reserve of blood test strips for his pump meter, but we have backups for his other meters. Just gone for more insulin too as any illness can either mean he needs very little, or loads. It's a gamble. Docs are a pain with test strips - they are expensive, but he's been told to test 8 times a day - a pack of strips can cost £30-£50 and will last 5 days - that's alot of money each month.
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Slick
Guru
Keep calm and carry on only takes you so far though, you still need to take sensible measures to reduce the effect on others. Mrs Slick for instance was due to serve lunch to pensioners in the village hall tomorrow but has decided against it just in case I've brought anything home from work. No panic, but why put others at risk?
Slick
Guru
I'm the same, a bit more fastidious about hand washing and supplementing that with sanitizer 6 or 7 times a day.
I don't see myself as a sceptic, it's a virus that we are well overdue and something we have to deal with rationally. My fear all along is that the hysteria is going to cause more human pain than the virus.
To answer your question, you know my job, I would have thought that I was fastidious about personal and specfically hand hygiene as I am worried about infection every day at work. But I've gone up another level this week as have most colleagues.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I'm comforting myself with my hazy A Level knowledge of statistics and probability.
Did you know that 4000 people die of tuberculosis every day?
Did you know that 4000 people die of tuberculosis every day?
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kingrollo
Guru
Did you know there is a vaccine for TB?
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
It was a comment about levels of mortality. I think I had a HEAF test when I was a kid.
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kingrollo
Guru
Yes but in reality if you are concerned about TB you can do something about it.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Surely, the key point is "if you are concerned"?
kingrollo
Guru
I would have thought the key point that you can do something about it.
