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Don’t take off your gloves and drop them in the parking lot next to your car! You still have to unload and disinfect your groceries or other supplies when you get home,
Don’t take off your gloves and drop them in the parking lot next to your car! You still have to unload and disinfect your groceries or other supplies when you get home,
And when you DO take off your gloves, if you are removing them correctly, they should be in an inside-out ball.
Otherwise you’re just getting the stuff that was on the outside of the gloves on your hands. Why bother wearing gloves if you’re doing that?
Otherwise you’re just getting the stuff that was on the outside of the gloves on your hands. Why bother wearing gloves if you’re doing that?
As an inside-out ball, y’all can put it into your door well until you get home and then toss them in the trash. But really you should be wearing them throughout your outing
Don’t make other people, (and eventually yourself) feel like they’re walking through a medical waste bin.
Don’t make other people, (and eventually yourself) feel like they’re walking through a medical waste bin.
And if you’re lucky to have an N95 or similar face mask, wait until you get home and have dealt with disinfecting your new stuff, taken off gloves safely, washed hands, before safely removing that mask
And then put the mask inside down on an oven safe plate and put it in a 165 dF oven (170 if that’s the lowest setting on your oven) for thirty minutes. Take it out and let it fully cool.
Use it again and again while baking it clean between uses.
Use it again and again while baking it clean between uses.
Removing gloves:
Pinch the outside of the glove about an inch or two down from the top edge inside the wrist. Peel downwards, away from the wrist, turning the glove inside out. Pull the glove away until it's removed from the hand. Hold the inside-out glove with the gloved hand.
Pinch the outside of the glove about an inch or two down from the top edge inside the wrist. Peel downwards, away from the wrist, turning the glove inside out. Pull the glove away until it's removed from the hand. Hold the inside-out glove with the gloved hand.
Those little excess elastic bits on your mask on the face cup are for you to grab and make minor adjustments if face scrunching movements don’t work
If you wear glasses, don’t worry if you have minor lens steaming while masked
Do not touch your glasses until you get back and safely remove gloves. Remove glasses before mask.
Disinfect your glasses with wipes or spray: lens cleaner is alcohol and works fine.
Do not touch your glasses until you get back and safely remove gloves. Remove glasses before mask.
Disinfect your glasses with wipes or spray: lens cleaner is alcohol and works fine.
Donning an N95 or similar mask; most won’t have access to different sizes so work with what you have
Don mask with both straps by your neck. Put on a billed cap over your head and put top strap in position near crown of head; less slippage this way
(Pic showing six step method)
Don mask with both straps by your neck. Put on a billed cap over your head and put top strap in position near crown of head; less slippage this way
(Pic showing six step method)
Mask removal:
Tilt head forward. Use two hands to grab the neck strap, pull out to sides & over head. Use both hands & grab crown strap, pull out to sides, then over head. Keep tension on crown strap as you remove it, which allows mask to fall forward
Plate mask inside down
Tilt head forward. Use two hands to grab the neck strap, pull out to sides & over head. Use both hands & grab crown strap, pull out to sides, then over head. Keep tension on crown strap as you remove it, which allows mask to fall forward
Plate mask inside down
Treat the whole procedure like a game if you need to. Give yourself points for every thing you did correctly.
Stay in the moment the entire time you need to be out to resupply perishables & restock perishables, meds, & other supplies.
Be aware of the bubble of space around you
Stay in the moment the entire time you need to be out to resupply perishables & restock perishables, meds, & other supplies.
Be aware of the bubble of space around you
Pay attention to the surfaces you touch or otherwise come in contact with in high-touch public areas while you’re on supply runs
This is all basic situational awareness and threat assessment & analysis, but it takes a LOT of practice
Level up.
This is all basic situational awareness and threat assessment & analysis, but it takes a LOT of practice
Level up.
If you can, separate tasks between people in your house.
One is designated hunter. When they get home, they safely doff, dump clothes, shower.
Other person unpacks, disinfects stuff, and puts the stuff away.
Develop policies & procedures
One is designated hunter. When they get home, they safely doff, dump clothes, shower.
Other person unpacks, disinfects stuff, and puts the stuff away.
Develop policies & procedures
Example: when going and getting mail from the mailbox, go down, carry it back, place it all in a designated spot where you leave your mail for 24 hours before opening and reading, thoroughly wash hands, apply moisturizer.
Do not touch your face between exit and hand wash.
Do not touch your face between exit and hand wash.
