Just commiserating, because I also don’t have a printer and occasionally need to print/sign/scan forms for work. I was planning on just going into the office when I needed to print, then decided that was a bad idea since I’d have to take the train. Then I was planning on just going to the library (which I can walk to), and then the libraries closed. I just caved and ordered the cheapest printer I could find online. I’m hoping all of this WFH gets my company moving towards esignatures.
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I think this may be a project I investigate during quarantine
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Yeah, I really should get one, mine died a while ago and I’ve been putting it off. I have a really really really old mac (like, maybe 2005-2006?) that’s running an old OS and doesn’t want to be upgraded, and a chromebook so I need to do some research about what’s even compatible with either of those.
I hate printers. I’ve never had a home printer work consistently.
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I must say, my life significantly improved when we got a printer. We actually have a high speed double sided color laser printer (and now a full sized commercial sticker printer). But I only was able to get it because I got a business grant I had to spend on durable goods. It’s hella expensive. And big. But I print sometimes hundreds of pages/labels a week. It’s actually nicer than both my office printers
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All of the stores here seem to have either upped their prices OR are only stocking the more expensive brands/jumbo packs.
I did my grocery run today and it was rough, but it’s DONE.
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My therapist just sent out a mass email that she’s doing phone appointments only for the foreseeable future. I’m glad - she is over 65 and I believe she has health issues.
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Has anyone come across anything about the efficacy of different surface cleaners? We have a communal building gym. Usually just me in there, and I wipe everything down, but worried it’s not that effective like with some viruses. (Ex normal cleaning wipes won’t touch Norovirus for example).
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And
Are what I’m going by.
^ edited to add that I don’t have any of these items (aside from 1/4 bottle of alcohol) and all the stores are sold out. FUN.
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My issue is, I have no idea which of those are safe to use around cats. I did read somewhere that Lysol is NOT safe. I feel terrible now because a few years ago when Boyfriend got the flu I was using that shit everywhere around Elderly Lady Cat. She died a month later, and I don’t think it was because of the Lysol, she was nearly 20 and had a bunch of stuff wrong with her, but still, it makes you think.
I know. It’s hard. I don’t think any of it is great for pets. I’m trying to clean things and let them FULLY air dry before my critters have any contact. I’ve also got my bathroom fan on for a while each day to maybe suck out the cleaning fumes a little.
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I’m comfortable in my own life with the list linked in this article: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/03/14/npr-the-new-coronavirus-can-live-on-surfaces-for-2-3-days-heres-how-to-clean-them
Lots of quat etc but also a fair number of grocery cleaners
Also mentioned that 4 tsp bleach in a quart of water is sufficient.
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I’m using a 1/10 bleach solution and letting it sit in the surface for ten minutes before wiping dry, just as I did with H1N1 (and avoided catching it from my husband who had a confirmed case) and SARS (when I was in a danger area). Basically, if a virus develops resistance to bleach, we’re all fucked anyway. You could take a small spray bottle and rag down there with you.
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THIS IS FANTASTIC.
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Tried putting together a Walmart pickup order and got a little freaked at quantity limits and then that they sold out of peanut butter between the time I added it to my cart and the time I hit “check out.” (Not all peanut butter, just crunchy natural peanut butter.)
We have plenty of food, we’ll be fine. But food is usually something I can control by stocking up/ growing/ foraging, and I can’t now, not completely. I’m probably compensating because I can’t protect my mother, or, given that our housemate is still going to work, myself.
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While the study I remember was with peracetic acid, this stuff is generally more effective. I’ve never had anything organic love through the 15 sec contact period, and it doesnt eat my skin like sulfuric or hydroidioc. No actual proof that it works, but on most things it’s far more effective than bleach.
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Yeah, that’ll do it.
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I can’t very well let bleach sit on my buildings workout equipment for 10 min before use, unfortunately.
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10 min?
I better go reread what I found this morning, I thought literally a wipe down was effective in the study. Morning comprehension, ha
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We may have been overly cautious at the preschool where I worked anyway. Lots of kids of microbiologists and epidemiologists so extra care was warranted just in case something went wrong in someone’s lab.
Edit: and I was remembering wrong. One minute before drying for sprayed surfaces and two for surfaces wiped with a bleach solution.
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Question for you all. It really comes down to judgment, I realize, but I would still like input. So my brother and his fiancé live in town with us. They both work from home right now. We are basically working from home. (When my husband does have to go to at work site he wears a respirator anyway.)
We had planned on having them basically be our node with us, but she has her sister flying in from London Tomorrow to stay with them to ride this thing out. I’m trying to decide what I should do. Do we just include her in the node and hope we don’t all get exposure? Or should we wait for the two weeks to see if she’s developed it from all the exposure with the flights and so on? She’s not a high-risk individual, no immune suppression or anything. Brother and I both technically have asthma, though as adults it’s only been an issue for either of us with bronchitis and wildfires. I have a four month old, but she was term and healthy (as far as anything respiratory or cardiac goes).
Eta also how do you sell someone on moving to a New city if the whole place is shut down 
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