I know what we need to do and I dare say everyone on this thread knows what to do. It’s not difficult to decipher. You either protect yourself or you don’t. Simple.
No it's not as simple as that.
With 86% of our population living in cities and towns in variously confined circumstances, many are unable to protect themselves sufficiently to be sure of avoiding the virus. For example if you are in flat at the end of a corridor with the doors to two other flats either side of yours, and the next door along is the shared bathroom and toilet you all use, you are not in control of your circumstances. Huge numbers live in such circumstances in our cities and large towns, indeed I once lived like that myself for a while after returning to London very long ago.
And then there's that proportion of the population whose abilities don't extend to adequately understanding every nuance of what is required. My example this time will probably surprise you.
In my appartment block our flats have a bin room with wheelie bins by the main entrance, its door internal. Most of the other seemingly intelligent residents I observe follow the same routine with their refuse bags. When going out they take
their own refuse bag, holding it with a kitchen tissue or a rubber glove. Downstairs they use the refuse room door handle with the other hand to enter, it auto closing behind them, then open a bin lid with their unprotected hand, dropping the bag into the bin. They then discard the tissue or rubber glove into the bin and close the bin lid with their unprotected hands.
Then its use the door handles both sides of the bin room door and finally the inner door handle of the front door to the block to exit, then off to work, shopping or whatever with both hands freshly contaminated by whatever is on the bin lid and three lever type door handles, plus the staircase bannisters if they've used those.
I try to protect them from themselves by disinfecting those outside handles every morning, but I know I'm wasting my time with postal and delivery drivers plus visitors in and out all day long. The fact is that a large swathe of the population are at risk all the time through circumstances beyond their control, since it takes just one brief contact to get infected.
N.B.
I don't use any hand protection for the above. I make disposal of my rubbish bag a separate trip, leaving my front door pushed to on latch and freely using the refuse room door handles and bin lids. I then use my shoulder to push open my latched front door and again to push it to, then enter the already open bathroom door opposite to wash my hands. Finally I delatch my front door. So while to others I'm being careless and irresponsible in not protecting myself, I'm in fact the safest of them all
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