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Thanks for sharing. To me, this seems obvious, but I worked for 12 years in restaurants and bars (mostly in managements), so hand washing and elimination of cross-contamination are second nature. I think this is useful for those who do not have a background where this sort of thing is just day-to-day operational.
I flip out when I see someone in my house use the same utensil on raw foods (e.g. chicken and vegetables), or double-dipping a spreading knife in mayonnaise, butter or other spread.
I used the ATM to make a bank deposit this past Sunday. I walked to the bank, used a wooden skewer to push buttons, and discarded it after I was done. I used one knuckle for the touch screen and didn't touch that knuckle until I was able to wash it.
I believe what you wrote speaks more to who you are, your character and your habits than your background.
I say this because there have been videos of people recommending certain things to others (e.g. "do not touch your face"), and then failing to follow their own advice, and I do not think for a moment most of them did so out of carelessness - it was just done out of habit.
Initially it would make sense to be surprised at certain individuals in the medical profession cathing the virus - there were two high-profile infections recently: the Chief Medical Officer in the UK and the former head of Civil Protection in Italy (another doctor) and thankfully both are now recovered - but when you consider your day to day routines and habits you've got to wonder how much they played a part in their getting the virus: for example, if you tend to wet your fingers before flipping the pages of a book, that habit is ingrained in you, so it's hard to get rid of it.
I think it's important to make this distinction because - in an emergency such as this - some people would benefit from rethinking their habits, i.e. do a bit of deliberate practice in hygiene management.
Excellent points. Two bad habits I have that you have metioned: touching face and licking my fingers to turn pages.... all too often and mostly subconsciously. Always room for improvement.
I don't think this is a smoking gun regarding Trump's advocacy of hydroxychloroquine, although it is interesting.
I think it is important to know the financial interests of all public officials, and apparently President Trump has indirect holdings in Sanofi, a French drug company that sells hydroxychloroquine, an old drug that is now generic, although not in the US:
There are quite a few business people with some connection the president who are also mentioned in this article and who also have some financial stake in the drug, but the thrust of the article is more that it is medically controversial. I don't doubt that there is a money interest for some people as well, and that this is driving the efforts that some have made to interest Trump in the drug as a treatment.
But there is little to go on right now, and I don't see this as telling us much, at least regarding the president himself.
And, for what it's worth, it ought to be US law that no President or Vice President should have any holdings that are not in a blind trust, but that's a matter for the future.
Bob.
When one door closes, another opens.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote
Totally agree with you about the blind trust requirement. We actually shouldn't need a law. We should have leaders with the moral clarity to do it voluntary. But obviously, on a practical level, we do need the law, and we need to extend it to Congress as well, given all the Congress people on both sides of the aisle who sold their stocks after a classified Intel briefing.
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