Pretty impossible to ignore it around here. They canceled the talent show at my kid’s school over it. Some schools closed. My company is reminding us to take out laptops home everynight in case we have to work from home.
If you think there’s been an overreaction in America, you should see how they’re handling it in Asia. Nothing else is on the news and everyone is wearing a face mask.
Was just in the local library yesterday, and the staff were SERIOUSLY conversing about wearing vinyl gloves while cleaning with Clorox wipes.
It’s pretty ridiculous this new found emphasis on behaviors that should have been taking place all along, like hand washing after relieving oneself and cleaning with Clorox. I think some of these individuals must also have discovered later in childhood it was time to get out of that diaper.
I have never owned a container of hand sanitizer and have never used the stuff and never will. Part of the problem is that humans have become ridiculous germ freaks.
On the contrary, when my children came home from the hospital after being born, they were introduced to the family pets right away. They got slurped by the dogs and sniffed by the cat. And they got introduced to all the pathogens so that their immune system could naturally build up from the exposure.
Basic hand washing and cleanliness is one thing.
But humans NEED a certain amount of exposure to pathogens.
The college president emails updates from Governor DeWine to keep us apprised on changes.
So far they’ve enacted more in depth nightly cleaning, distributed hand sanitizer to every office and installed sanitizer hand stations throughout hallways. Teachers are to tolerate extended absences and allow longer timeframes to submit assignments. Some athletic and non-crucial type get-togethers are postponed or cancelled.
Contingency plans are being made in case anything more needs to happen. Do I like knowing I’m in the middle of a constant turnstile of student traffic when it comes to contagious seasons? No, but I’m glad to be kept informed.