I joined a nephew and his wife (a doctor, her medical specialty in Infectious Diseases) at a Jazz Concert at a theater at Columbia University Saturday night.
No bare hand touching of surfaces outside your own home or auto. No touching of face - mouth, nose or eyes, with your own bare hand. Wash hands frequently. All things way more important than drug store face masks.
When going to the men’s room - the door was open so no one had to touch the door to get in - 1st move was using forearm to move the lever of the paper towel dispenser, 2nd move rip off an end of the paper towels, third move use a piece of paper towel when touching the stall door to open and close it, third move - do business (pee) touching nothing but my own clothes and body, fourth move use same piece of paper towel to reopen the stall door, fifth move leave room without touching water faucet and sink that everyone has used. In the theater I had my outerwear gloves left on since before entering the theater (it was cold Saturday nite).
My nephew’s wife is well informed, even on all the specifics of the case in Westchester county (New Rochele), including the doctors and nurses involved in the case there. Though none of the case has involved her hospital or its staff (in a different area of Westchester County), they are keeping tabs on all persons (including medical staff) that have been involved in or connected to the case; with information sharing agreements between the hospitals as part of their infectious disease protocols.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoy_Gardens
Simply going near the public restroom was a risk.
Every flush aerosolizes it if anyone is infected.
Exactly. There’s no need to shut down the entire city, the transit system, or anything else. A little prudence and reasonable precautions - fine. And if the city - or any city - wanted to do something real, they could start by cleaning up their transit hubs (such as Grand Central) and preventing people from living (and doing the rest of the associated functions!) in them.
But that would require actually doing something rather than screaming politicized hysteria.
Though if someone (when) in my office gets it, we all get it. All very close and there are a lot of us--it's a big place.