Coronavirus prep
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Usually they have hand sanitizer with portapotties too, although I also think that seems weird.
We also have (most) parks open but playground sections closed off. Facilities are closed, but it seems not that hard just to plan so no bathroom is needed. There are tons of local parks here, so people likely aren't too far from their homes anyway.
Unless I'm missing something why is hand sanitizer in a porta potty weird? In most cases there is no running water available to wash your hands after using a porta potty. Hence the sanitizer is the next best choice.3 -
kshama2001 wrote: »DancingMoosie wrote: »We've woken up this morning to a new level of freedom (I'm in New Zealand) - at midnight we went to "alert level 2"
Level 4 was full lockdown - supermarkets, pharmacies and medical centres open with restrictions, and a few other essential services were running. People had to stay home, no travel, only contact with those in your home (or your "bubble")
Level 3 was a slight easing - cafes and restaurants opened for takeaway only. Stores opening for click and collect or delivery services. Travelling within your region was okay.
Level 2 we now have restaurants open for table service again - groups of 10 or less. Shops can open, social distancing and hygiene measures in place. School will reopen on Monday. We can now travel again - looking forward to visiting my mum who is in another region and has been alone for 7 weeks! I have been talking to her lots, and ordering her groceries for delivery as she's in an at-risk group and taking all precautions.
There are still restrictions on gatherings, so the kids' extra-curricular activities won't be starting face-to-face just yet. That will be reviewed in two weeks as we see how the case numbers progress.
(Those descriptions of levels are not complete lists, just a few things relevant to me)
Funny how today, for me, is actually just the same. I guess it will help when the kids head back to school next week, but I will continue to work from home. I am looking forward to taking the dog for a walk as we'd been requested to keep dogs on leash for all walks for level 3&4, so it'll be great to let her off at the beach or river for a run - except I think everyone else in town will probably have the same idea, and my dog hates crowds.
My daughter is super excited to see her best friend today.
Fingers crossed (and hands washed) that our numbers stay low going forward.
What I don't understand is, if social distancing and hygiene measures are in place and groups are limited to 10, how do schools open? This is why we don't know when schools will reopen here. We have to follow the social distance guidelines, which is 10 or less. That is not a full school bus or classroom. They are even limiting staff to 10 at a time. Parks are open, but not playgrounds(in some cities). My city opened parks and playgrounds, but not restrooms. I don't understand...are we supposed to pee ourselves?Theoldguy1 wrote: »That's what the other side of the tree is for:)
My only regret about being female is due to males' ability to pee discretely in the woods
My city park is small. You cannot go pee behind a tree, you would still be visible. It is also over 10 miles from home. So, between driving there, running, and hydrating, sometimes I gotta go. Sometimes I gotta go within the first 3 miles of a run. So I guess I'm just supposed to hold it, pee myself, or leave and use the gas station restroom? It just doesn't make sense to open it, including play scapes, but barricade the rr.6 -
As a runner, I pay attention to where construction projects can be found along the routes I run. I'm very happy when they have sanitizer in the POPs because when you're 4 miles from home in an area with no woods and only stubble in the corn fields, they can be a necessity.4
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Theoldguy1 wrote: »Usually they have hand sanitizer with portapotties too, although I also think that seems weird.
We also have (most) parks open but playground sections closed off. Facilities are closed, but it seems not that hard just to plan so no bathroom is needed. There are tons of local parks here, so people likely aren't too far from their homes anyway.
Unless I'm missing something why is hand sanitizer in a porta potty weird? In most cases there is no running water available to wash your hands after using a porta potty. Hence the sanitizer is the next best choice.
No, OF COURSE the hand sanitizer is not weird. The situation rhedd described was weird (shutting off bathrooms but then adding portapotties). What you were missing was my point, but I suppose I should have been more clear. Sometimes you just assume some interpretations are so bizarre that no one will think that's what you meant, but I should know better by now.
I would guess the issue is you can only have one person at a time in the portapotties and the company sanitizes them, as someone else said, so if you think you NEED a bathroom facility there (I haven't seen any complaints about the lack of bathrooms here), the portapottie option might be better.2 -
my mom is in her late sixties and still insisting she flies out for my birthday in july. it's the only thing she has left to look forward to, she keeps saying, and if i try to dissuade her she acts like i'm telling her she's not welcome here. i keep telling her no, it's not like that, i just don't want her being packed into a sky tube for hours at a time in the middle of a plague, but even as all the things she wanted to do out here get canceled she still won't listen because she doesn't want to "live in fear." i'm not a coward, i just know when to take basic cautions seriously, and the only thing i'm scared of is that she'll end up getting sick because of me. my family out here all most likely already had it so assuming the existence of antibodies (for our sanity's sake) we aren't that worried, but she's older and less fit than my dad and it nearly killed him. i can't lose my mom to this just because of some stupid birthday, how the hell do i get her to see it's not worth the risk? anyone else dealing with stubborn parents like this?11
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DancingMoosie wrote: »We've woken up this morning to a new level of freedom (I'm in New Zealand) - at midnight we went to "alert level 2"
Level 4 was full lockdown - supermarkets, pharmacies and medical centres open with restrictions, and a few other essential services were running. People had to stay home, no travel, only contact with those in your home (or your "bubble")
Level 3 was a slight easing - cafes and restaurants opened for takeaway only. Stores opening for click and collect or delivery services. Travelling within your region was okay.
Level 2 we now have restaurants open for table service again - groups of 10 or less. Shops can open, social distancing and hygiene measures in place. School will reopen on Monday. We can now travel again - looking forward to visiting my mum who is in another region and has been alone for 7 weeks! I have been talking to her lots, and ordering her groceries for delivery as she's in an at-risk group and taking all precautions.
There are still restrictions on gatherings, so the kids' extra-curricular activities won't be starting face-to-face just yet. That will be reviewed in two weeks as we see how the case numbers progress.
(Those descriptions of levels are not complete lists, just a few things relevant to me)
Funny how today, for me, is actually just the same. I guess it will help when the kids head back to school next week, but I will continue to work from home. I am looking forward to taking the dog for a walk as we'd been requested to keep dogs on leash for all walks for level 3&4, so it'll be great to let her off at the beach or river for a run - except I think everyone else in town will probably have the same idea, and my dog hates crowds.
My daughter is super excited to see her best friend today.
Fingers crossed (and hands washed) that our numbers stay low going forward.
What I don't understand is, if social distancing and hygiene measures are in place and groups are limited to 10, how do schools open? This is why we don't know when schools will reopen here. We have to follow the social distance guidelines, which is 10 or less. That is not a full school bus or classroom. They are even limiting staff to 10 at a time. Parks are open, but not playgrounds(in some cities). My city opened parks and playgrounds, but not restrooms. I don't understand...are we supposed to pee ourselves?
From what I understand, the virus sheds in urine and fecal matter which the flushing process very efficiently puts into the air and spreads to all surfaces. Unless they come up with a lid that goes down automatically when flushing, there probably isn't a way to keep a public toilet clean.10 -
We're going to do this here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/science/coronavirus-sewage-monitoring-lockdown.html
Maybe it will gives us a more accurate reflection of where we stand. A person went on an Asian cruise in January, came back home through Hawaii. Very sick for weeks and weeks. Passed out cold on the floor in grocery store. Person was told they didn't qualify for C19 test. We only had 4 of them. One was used and only 3 were left. 22,000 non-residents have applied for fishing licenses, they'll be here very soon.
Restaurants are opening up. You can have as many as 10 in your party as long as your party stays 6 feet away from other parties. If you caught the news last night, loud talkers carry it further. Singing carries it further.
Blowhearts and singers are coming in droves. We have portapotties all over the place and many don't have any hand sanitizer especially out in the national forests.
Everyone is pushing for herd immunity. As the protesters keep preaching...'They didn't die of it, they died with it. They were all going to die, anyway.' When this touches the kids, they may care. So everything is going to open back up because the economy is tanking. One ding-a-ling on the radio said it's time for everyone to rid themselves of the stay-at-home mentality and let the chips fall where they may. So that's what they're going to do in my small corner of the world.13 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »Just announced yesterday that NM is going into phase I open as of May 16. All retailers will be allowed to open at 25% of fire marshal capacity which is the same as grocery stores and other places that were deemed essential have been at.
Not surprisingly, all of the people who were complaining that the big box stores were allowed to be open at limited capacity and why can't everyone else do the same with the same restrictions are now complaining that "non essential" retailers are now open with the same restrictions. Also, masks are now mandated when going into a public place of business and people are complaining about that and a bunch of yahoos saying "over my dead body" which seems absurd and juvenile that you would really be willing to die rather than wear a mask for 20 minutes in a grocery store.
Restaurants and other close contact things like gyms, barbers, salons, etc are still closed. Phase I should theoretically be a couple of weeks namely to see how things go...but these idiots are likely to ruin that because they just want to be defiant of something as simple as wearing a mask and maintaining social distancing and not congregating in more than groups of 10.
IMO, or governor has done a pretty good job. It hasn't been perfect and there have been certain aspects of this that I disagree with, but there is no one perfect solution and she has erred on the side of being cautious. For some reason, I think there were a lot of people that just thought we'd go from stay at home and everything being closed to just opening everything up overnight...which is baffling since she has been talking about phased re-opening, increased testing and contact tracing for over a month.
To add to this, the phase I re-open is not applicable to McKinley or San Juan Counties. They have not been particularly compliant with stay at home orders or social distancing and many in those counties now feel they are being unfairly targeted...but it couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that they make up over 50% of the entire states total positive cases. No...it couldn't possibly be that.
For reference, between the two counties, they account for 2,884 total positive cases, and their ratio of new positives to tests performed continues to rise. The two counties that make up the metro area which is the most populous part of the state account for 1,601 of the total positive cases and their ratio of new positives to tests performed has sharply declined. The whole rest of the entire state of NM accounts for total positive cases of 879.
McKnley County and San Juan County are also not particularly populous areas which makes their infection rate per capita very high. Lots of "you can't tell me what to do" folks up in those counties too.11 -
From what I understand, the virus sheds in urine and fecal matter which the flushing process very efficiently puts into the air and spreads to all surfaces. Unless they come up with a lid that goes down automatically when flushing, there probably isn't a way to keep a public toilet clean.
This is why it's a good idea to wash your hands thoroughly after using a public toilet and not touch your face.
Norovirus is also aerosolized with a toilet flush. Pretty sure the last big stomach bug I got - came from a public toilet. I had to take the potty training kids in over and over again and later that week - BAM big daddy stomach bug.
What I mean is, public toilets are always gross - it isn't new to CV - and you should train yourself and your kids to wash hands after. Sanitize if you have to (which doesn't kill norovirus, IIRC, but it does CV, so).6 -
cosmiqrecovery wrote: »my mom is in her late sixties and still insisting she flies out for my birthday in july. it's the only thing she has left to look forward to, she keeps saying, and if i try to dissuade her she acts like i'm telling her she's not welcome here. i keep telling her no, it's not like that, i just don't want her being packed into a sky tube for hours at a time in the middle of a plague, but even as all the things she wanted to do out here get canceled she still won't listen because she doesn't want to "live in fear." i'm not a coward, i just know when to take basic cautions seriously, and the only thing i'm scared of is that she'll end up getting sick because of me. my family out here all most likely already had it so assuming the existence of antibodies (for our sanity's sake) we aren't that worried, but she's older and less fit than my dad and it nearly killed him. i can't lose my mom to this just because of some stupid birthday, how the hell do i get her to see it's not worth the risk? anyone else dealing with stubborn parents like this?
Yeah, I just can't get my Mom to understand what errands are essential and what are not. Like, was getting the lawnmower serviced really worth it? (It was a zero contact interaction - she just dropped it off - but she did two other errands that day so the whole situation spiked my anxiety level.)
That reminds me, I have to work on her to get her prescription mailed to her.
Maybe for specific suggestions for your mom, start a new thread?6 -
rheddmobile wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »DancingMoosie wrote: »We've woken up this morning to a new level of freedom (I'm in New Zealand) - at midnight we went to "alert level 2"
Level 4 was full lockdown - supermarkets, pharmacies and medical centres open with restrictions, and a few other essential services were running. People had to stay home, no travel, only contact with those in your home (or your "bubble")
Level 3 was a slight easing - cafes and restaurants opened for takeaway only. Stores opening for click and collect or delivery services. Travelling within your region was okay.
Level 2 we now have restaurants open for table service again - groups of 10 or less. Shops can open, social distancing and hygiene measures in place. School will reopen on Monday. We can now travel again - looking forward to visiting my mum who is in another region and has been alone for 7 weeks! I have been talking to her lots, and ordering her groceries for delivery as she's in an at-risk group and taking all precautions.
There are still restrictions on gatherings, so the kids' extra-curricular activities won't be starting face-to-face just yet. That will be reviewed in two weeks as we see how the case numbers progress.
(Those descriptions of levels are not complete lists, just a few things relevant to me)
Funny how today, for me, is actually just the same. I guess it will help when the kids head back to school next week, but I will continue to work from home. I am looking forward to taking the dog for a walk as we'd been requested to keep dogs on leash for all walks for level 3&4, so it'll be great to let her off at the beach or river for a run - except I think everyone else in town will probably have the same idea, and my dog hates crowds.
My daughter is super excited to see her best friend today.
Fingers crossed (and hands washed) that our numbers stay low going forward.
What I don't understand is, if social distancing and hygiene measures are in place and groups are limited to 10, how do schools open? This is why we don't know when schools will reopen here. We have to follow the social distance guidelines, which is 10 or less. That is not a full school bus or classroom. They are even limiting staff to 10 at a time. Parks are open, but not playgrounds(in some cities). My city opened parks and playgrounds, but not restrooms. I don't understand...are we supposed to pee ourselves?
I suppose the theory is you are not suppossed to be in a park long enough to need the toilet.
Parks were open here too but playgrounds within them were taped off. So it was ok to go for a walk or jog through the park or to sit by yourself /members of your household on a bench - but not for children ( or adults - the adults fitness equipment was taped off too) to gather on equipment or have lots of bodies touching equipment.
Same logic as gyms, I suppose.
Outdoor playgrounds/ fitness equipment are un taped and ok to use here now in stage 1 of road to recovery.
Weirdly enough, they did the same thing here - left parks open but closed facilities at them - and then apparently the city noticed that people still needed to go, so rather than arrest everybody for indecent exposure, they added portapotties and posted the location of the new portapotties on the covid site! So, let me get this straight, using a fully functional restroom is unsafe, but sharing a four by four foot fully enclosed space with no way to wash your hands afterwards is somehow safe. Got it.
Portapotties are cleaned and supplied by the rental company. Fully functional bathrooms need to be cleaned and supplied by the city or county and they probably don't have enough personnel to do that. That is my opinion, but I also agree with your reasoning.
I'd add that portos are also designed with easy, fast sanitization among their priority design characteristics, as part of the cost-management side of the business. It's basically a plastic box, and many of them (you may have noticed) have slanting surfaces and perforated grid-surface shelves to simplify full-box hose-downs to clean. Regular park restrooms typically require custom cleaning with things like mops, brooms, sponges.
I'm not saying the porto companies use hose-down to clean them at remote sites - don't know, and probably varies by company - but "easy to clean" is a design criterion, for sure. When you frequently send your plastic box out (under normal circumstances) to places where massive crowds are drinking beer and ***-ing all over the inside of the box, you're gonna want that feature.
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cosmiqrecovery wrote: »my mom is in her late sixties and still insisting she flies out for my birthday in july. it's the only thing she has left to look forward to, she keeps saying, and if i try to dissuade her she acts like i'm telling her she's not welcome here. i keep telling her no, it's not like that, i just don't want her being packed into a sky tube for hours at a time in the middle of a plague, but even as all the things she wanted to do out here get canceled she still won't listen because she doesn't want to "live in fear." i'm not a coward, i just know when to take basic cautions seriously, and the only thing i'm scared of is that she'll end up getting sick because of me. my family out here all most likely already had it so assuming the existence of antibodies (for our sanity's sake) we aren't that worried, but she's older and less fit than my dad and it nearly killed him. i can't lose my mom to this just because of some stupid birthday, how the hell do i get her to see it's not worth the risk? anyone else dealing with stubborn parents like this?
Can she drive? Probably less risk.3 -
Usually they have hand sanitizer with portapotties too, although I also think that seems weird.
We also have (most) parks open but playground sections closed off. Facilities are closed, but it seems not that hard just to plan so no bathroom is needed. There are tons of local parks here, so people likely aren't too far from their homes anyway.
What strange paradise do you live in where they have sanitizer with portapotties? I’ve used a lot more local portapotties than I care to at races, and I’m lucky to see toilet paper! I’ve learned to carry a wad of paper in my waist belt. Sometimes they have handwashing stations with foot pumps set up nearby, but not sanitizer.6 -
rheddmobile wrote: »Usually they have hand sanitizer with portapotties too, although I also think that seems weird.
We also have (most) parks open but playground sections closed off. Facilities are closed, but it seems not that hard just to plan so no bathroom is needed. There are tons of local parks here, so people likely aren't too far from their homes anyway.
What strange paradise do you live in where they have sanitizer with portapotties? I’ve used a lot more local portapotties than I care to at races, and I’m lucky to see toilet paper! I’ve learned to carry a wad of paper in my waist belt. Sometimes they have handwashing stations with foot pumps set up nearby, but not sanitizer.
As a transplant from the South to the Midwest, I've personally observed that it was very rare for me to see a portipottie with hand sanitizer in Tennessee/Arkansas, but not uncommon for me to see them now.2 -
rheddmobile wrote: »Usually they have hand sanitizer with portapotties too, although I also think that seems weird.
We also have (most) parks open but playground sections closed off. Facilities are closed, but it seems not that hard just to plan so no bathroom is needed. There are tons of local parks here, so people likely aren't too far from their homes anyway.
What strange paradise do you live in where they have sanitizer with portapotties? I’ve used a lot more local portapotties than I care to at races, and I’m lucky to see toilet paper! I’ve learned to carry a wad of paper in my waist belt. Sometimes they have handwashing stations with foot pumps set up nearby, but not sanitizer.
If they put sanitizer or TP in them these days, it will probably get stolen before anyone can use it.6 -
Given the bizarre backlash against facemasks in the US recently, I wouldn't be surprised if the same people also refuse to wash their hands because of 'muh freedums!'.17
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rheddmobile wrote: »Usually they have hand sanitizer with portapotties too, although I also think that seems weird.
We also have (most) parks open but playground sections closed off. Facilities are closed, but it seems not that hard just to plan so no bathroom is needed. There are tons of local parks here, so people likely aren't too far from their homes anyway.
What strange paradise do you live in where they have sanitizer with portapotties? I’ve used a lot more local portapotties than I care to at races, and I’m lucky to see toilet paper! I’ve learned to carry a wad of paper in my waist belt. Sometimes they have handwashing stations with foot pumps set up nearby, but not sanitizer.
Michigan. Many portos in Michigan have hand sanitizer. (Like the TP, sometimes it's out.)
Y'know, Michigan, that strange paradise where we have the right to carry long guns right into the state capitol building, but we're forbidden to carry signs on sticks into the same building? That paradise.
P.S. The above is not a political statement. It's just a strange fact - so that's what makes this a strange paradise, right? ("Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice" is pretty much what makes it a paradise.) Personally, I like all 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights, but I still find this fact about my state a little weird. It's a subject of much debate here lately, as you might imagine.10 -
I'd like to add a perspective to the face mask issue.
Where I live in the states we are in phase 1. People can go to the beach and restaurants. I went to a restaurant, as the clientele you can't really wear a mask while dining. Also, there was maybe 1 waitress who wore her mask properly. Everyone else was either showing their nose (even the top part of the mouth! mask was too loose) or touching the mask to readjust it, and grabbing the front of the mask to pull it off and breathe deeply. So, IMHO sometimes masks are giving a false sense of security when the habits regarding them are more important. Don't touch your face, mind where you're breathing, and wash your hands so you don't transfer germs.
It's been 10 days. There's not any concerning spike in cases, the stores do not require people to wear masks to enter, the hospitals asked people to not neglect their "elective" procedures (a lot of heart issues, there is a lot of older people in the town just north of me) which consist of heart surgeries. People are avoiding the hospital in fear of catching CV. I know in March I was terrified when I had to transfer from a small birth center to a hospital when a hiccup happened during my labor. I'm okay.
I'll also add that I do live in a "city", but it's not urban. It's suburban. I think people are frustrated when they're in places like where I live, but are being lumped into the same situation as major cities. The reasoning I've heard is to dissuade city dwellers from fleeing and spreading it because there's no incentive related to freedom.
But if there's a 2-3 week lag, we'll see what happens starting 4 days from now. Hopefully it'll be as expected or better—small increase in cases, but no frightening spike. Not all counties opened up, the two that were worst hit are (from what I last heard) still closed.2 -
rheddmobile wrote: »Usually they have hand sanitizer with portapotties too, although I also think that seems weird.
We also have (most) parks open but playground sections closed off. Facilities are closed, but it seems not that hard just to plan so no bathroom is needed. There are tons of local parks here, so people likely aren't too far from their homes anyway.
What strange paradise do you live in where they have sanitizer with portapotties?
Chicago. Portapotties around here normally have it, and I've seen it with them when doing races in other parts of IL, as well as WI and IN and WA. (I did a marathon in New Orleans, but have no memory of whether they surprisingly did not have it, I was too brain dead after to remember anything.)2 -
janejellyroll wrote: »Theoldguy1 wrote: »Of course in IL liquor and recreational marijuana retailers have been deemed essential and open through all of this.
I think liquor has been deemed essential in every state with closures. I know it was the case here in MN as well.
Random thing I read from someone on Facebook was the cigarettes and alcohol are currently not being sold in South Africa. The person admitted he and others were spending a 300% mark-up on illegal cigarettes.1
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