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3 Things to Always Carry When Venturing Out for Supplies During Lockdown: Gloves, Stylus, Pen
Not easy to find but a small pincer that you can keep in your wallet to pull your credit card out when getting the card back.
While we're all being told by our leaders to wash our hands scrupulously for 20 seconds, nobody has reminded us about cleaning the taps etc! Not all of us have taps you can manipulate with an elbow like surgeons. I'm not advocating over-obsessiveness though. I'm a bit OCD so I know the impact it can have on daily life and on partners.
What about pets? Our cat went up to a neighbour she loves, who stroked her as we talked from our safe distance. Too late it occurred to us to wonder whether the virus would transmit via a pet's fur. We're all self-isolating, classed as vulnerable. Yet there we are stroking the cat as she wanders between us!
By the way, in the UK we're told to stay 2 metres apart. That's approx 7 feet, a whole foot more than the prescribed American safe distance mentioned in Lee's comment.
I feel it is important to take precautions, be aware of changes to this dynamic situation and to follow guidelines from trusted public health officials to the best of our abilities. I also believe this to be a public health threat of unprecedented proportions in most of our lives. However, something about this process you describe seems to me, — a person who is not a medical professional and who is willing to admit I may be wrong here — to be a bit...excessive and bordering on being, all things considered, perhaps mildly pathologically so. I mean, it seems rational to practice social distancing a d to avoid touching public surfaces and items and to wash our hands regularly, but something about the way you describe this internal and external dichotomy and the way you refer to the receipts (never touching *those*) just causes a bit of concern that you are having trouble dealing with the new stresses this pandemic has created which might lead to longer term issues in the aftermath. I say this out of concern, not to mock or belittle anyone, and as I said, I may be 100% wrong and should be more, let's say *neurotic* about what I allow to touch me. I am, for instance right now leaning against the glass at a transit station in nyc, the spice tee of the virus, and the contact my coat is making with the external object is not something I'm remotely concerned about. If I were that concerned about everything in the world, I think I would be in danger of serious mental meltdown. Perhaps this is not the case for you.
2nd idea.
in your garage or entryway. make a "sanitation station" out of a cardboard box without a lid. (the virus only last on cardboard for a day). Put everything that came in from the outside (groceries, keys, wallet, anything) in that box on your arrival, and spray down with whatever cleaning spray you have, or wipe down with sanitizing wipes, or dip anything that can survive getting wet, in a nearby sanitizer bucket filled with 1/3 cup bleach and 1 gallon water, and let air dry inside the box.
this will allow you to keep the outside germs outside. The can of corn you bought from the store could have been coughed on by someone an hour before you bought it, and the virus could survive in your cupboard for 17 days.
I learned this from a hospital worker friend. Set a hamper near your front door, with a plastic trash bag in it. As you enter your house. strip down and put your dirty "outside clothes" in there. Head to shower and after, get dressed in your "inside clothes". Make sure to leave your shoes outside or inside the front door on a special mat, or inside a box where you can step in, take them off, and leave the shoes inside the box. then at the end of the week make sure to take the plastic bag to your washer and dump the contents in without touching the clothes. Wash in warm or hot if you can.