Just wondering.... How common is the use of shared press board type clipboards? Even though I have not been to a restaurant since early March, I hear that some businesses (not just dine-in places) are handing out questionnaires on shared clipboards. Wondering how effective hand sanitizers are in this situation? When holding onto a shared object for several minutes? Or any type of shared object. How often to reapply sanitizer?
If it is too expensive for the government or a business to buy another one, then it is ok to share. If it is too expensive for you to buy another one, then you just can't use it because it is dangerous.
A motorcycle driver can use his strapped-to-his-back flat shield as a hard surface to fill out the health questionnaire instead of using a shared clipboard. All kidding aside, bring your own pen, handle the clipboard with a paper towel pulled from your back pocket. Use sanitizer before going out. Works for me.
my suggestion is to focus on decontamination of your personal self and items when you return home. i would treat anything i handle outside of the home as contaminated. it is probably true that virtually all people behave differently if they are being watched vis a vis when they are alone. studies show that is even true of doctors and nurses in hospitals
The problem with that /shabbynomad in my opinion is that if you pick up the infection during handling something and then touch your mouth or nose or eyes (or anyne else's) before you get home, you can scrub all you like but you will already be infected. Disinfect immediately after touching any surface which has the ability of carrying the infection. If in doubt as to what they are, hen disinfect every time you touch anything outside your natural home.
well certainly if you want to try to disinfect after touching anything that is fine. disinfecting when you get home is fine, both is fine. i choose to do neither. if i was compromised by being HIV positive, or having COPD, or other issues that weakened by health i would probably choose strict home quarentine until a vaccine is available. as of now i choose fresh air and sunshine and a healthful diet and quality of life. i personally believe as easy as covid is to spread that we have all been exposed. one trip the market downtown at 6 a m should prove that to anyone beyond any reasonable doubt. but do what makes you happy. i wear a mask to make the authorities happy and because its the law, and i also want my fellow dumaguetians see i am concerned for them. this is so even tho i witness so many of them demonstrating their unconcern. i live in a filipino neighborhood and rub elbows with a hundred or more filipinos, half of which are children and virtually no one wears a mask in the neighborhood or to the little sari sari or when eating outside in the evening in groups of ten to twenty. they only wear masks when they leave the neighborhood, me too. i consider myself a realist.
That's the farce with the whole thing. Go into town and 95% of people are wearing a mask. Go into any barangay from 1km outwards and the only people you see wearing a mask are motorcyclists travelling to/from the city. The locals in the barangays are the exact same people that you see in the town. The whole thing is done just for show.
Hence why many said, including you, that face masks are essential (along with eye cover) - stops a virus-infected hand touching your mouth, nose, eyes - as well as the protection from aloft virus particles within droplets or not. And who goes around touching other people's noses!
So if people who do NOT show any health protocols are in barangays spreading the virus to each other (although at present there is no evidence of local transmission in Neg Or.) and then taking it into the city, a very good reason for sane individuals to mask up and care for your own health when you are out and when things come into your home.