@jewels So glad to hear. So very glad!
I have twice thought I was getting Covid and now I realize I have allergies that I never knew I had before. They can give me that post nasal drip cough and even a slight sore throat some days. Then there is the empathic illness that comes when I focus on people who are sick. It doesn't last though. So many here are empaths.
@jeanne-mayell Thank you, Jeanne! I do wonder where this flu came from. I'm rarely ill.
Speaking of empaths, is it especially hard for empaths to put pets down? I cant bear putting down our old kitty tomorrow, even if it is for the best. It feels very wrong.
@jewels
We had to put down my favorite kitty in February - there's a post over on the pet thread with a pic. We were lucky it was pre-pandemic and we were able to do it at home, so slightly less stressful than usual. And it is very hard for us empath/intuitive types, BUT I have developed a better sense of their suffering over time. We knew this last cat was terminal (cancer), and I promised him that I'd only let him suffer a maximum of ONE day, and that's exactly what happened. We woke up that morning and knew he was in pain, he was not eating and barely conscious, so I medicated him heavily for the pain and called the euthanasia vet, and he crossed the rainbow bridge at around 5pm that day. So one $*tty day is all he suffered.
Hang in there, it's never easy. And feel better.
Getting back on topic of COVID-19 and the keeping of social distance, wearing a mask and the reminders to "wash,wash,wash" your hands as we all hear over and over again.
How many of us actually even wash them as we should? Let's look at these British polls and their findings beginning with the basics. Which simply starts with washing your hands after using the bathroom:
"Hands down, men worse at bathroom hygiene that prevents coronavirus - Reuters
Health officials around the world advise that deliberate, regular handwashing is one of the best weapons against the virus which causes a flu-like respiratory illness that can kill and has spread to around 80 countries.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's online fact sheet "Handwashing: A corporate activity," cites a 2009 study that finds "only 31% of men and 65% of women washed their hands" after using a public restroom."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-handwashing/hand
s-down-men-worse-at-bathroom-hygiene-that-prevents-coronavirus-idUSKBN20S2N7
Another more recent post COVID-19 study founded among thousands polled that 12 % of adults still don't wash hands after using a public bathroom.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's online fact sheet "Handwashing: A corporate activity," cites a 2009 study that finds "only 31% of men and 65% of women washed their hands" after using a public restroom."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-handwashing/hand
s-down-men-worse-at-bathroom-hygiene-that-prevents-coronavirus-idUSKBN20S2N7Another more recent post COVID-19 study founded among thousands polled that 12 % of adults still don't wash hands after using a public bathroom.
what what what
I mean...
I just...
I...
I think my brain just short-circuited
Good Grief!
The study found 14.6% of men did not wash their hands at all after using the bathroom and 35.1% wet their hands but did not use soap, compared to 7.1% and 15.1% of women, respectively.
I am a broken record at our house about hand washing. One of the conscious decisions I needed to make on our recent trip was how long to stay in the public restroom to wash my hands. Should I wash quickly with soap and water so that I could leave quicker and avoid the air or to I breathe restroom air longer and wash for a longer time, sometimes 2 twice. Usually I did a longer time followed by hand gel when getting back into the car. I also brought a liquid soap pump to the hotel room so that we would not need to share a bar of soap. Bars of soap at a communal sink gross me out, even if it is my family. Our family also wipes down groceries when we bring them home, a learned Covid practice. I wonder if that practice will change when Covid 19 is less of a threat.
Has anybody come across a study which indicates that there is less transfer from other spring and summer viruses than normal right now? I was thinking of Jewels getting sick with non-Covid-19 ailment and I thought how much more difficult it must be to catch a normal virus. I know a few other people who have had a regular type of flu recently. That would be rather scary. It will be even more so once kids enter classrooms.
@lovendures
This is why we never ever ever want to shake anyone's hand ever ever again.
And if we ever invite anyone to dinner ever again, we announce "time to wash up before dinner is served" and then after that "we have no self-serve finger foods here and please use tongs for everything including raw vegetable tray items and bread and biscuits!"
I wonder how many things will be a permanent change because of the pandemic?
If we do not shake hands anymore and likely we will not, I wonder what the new form of greeting will become?
I love your "call to wash up" before a meal. That is a great way to remind people politely.
Make sure you get your Vitamin D and check your levels with a blood test from the doctor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdc7T2UTHBI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv4iINxf4IM&feature=em-uploademail
I love this podcast/video series also very informative, very technical also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Vy6fgaBPE&t=3s
The videos have links to journal articles also.
I've always hated shaking hands, even pre-pandemic, for the obvious reason that so many peoples hands are not clean!
I've seen countless women breeze out of public bathrooms without washing. Then they touch the doorknob, who knows how much stuff in the store-YUCK.
Handwashing is fast and simple and sanitary. I don't understand it. It makes you wonder what their kitchens and home bathrooms look like.