Hand washing is much better than using hand sanitizer. It seems kids in particular are getting the message that sanitizer is better, it is not it is only an emergency option.

Handwashing is useless if you dry your hands with an air dryer, you turn off the faucet with your hand, you open the door with your hand, etc.

Wash hands before eating, eat with silverware or hold a sandwich with a napkin so that you don't have to touch the food with your fingers.

Washing hands as soon as you arrive home before touching anything in the house is a good idea.

Should I admonish someone who exits the men's room without washing their hands after coming out of a stall for #2? Or remind them to do so?

Usually it's a forgetful or unsanitary old man.

"Usually it's a forgetful or unsanitary old man. "
PLEASE come to my office and tell the filthy young girls about hygiene and hand washing after going to the restroom. They're terrible!

If you're only doing o0ne thing you're not doing all you can. Washing hands may be best, but washing hands, then using sanitizer when back at your desk and repeating frequently is the very best plan of attack. Eating yogurt helps with your immune system as well, many reports are showing.
Also exercising regularly.

Relying on only one will not benefit you as much as a multi-pronged approach.

Food Partiers! no kidding - I got this email from Allison Aubrey today!

Hi Laura

Thanks for mentioning my story. I regret picking Baby Shark, seems that song annoys a lot of people, too

Sent from my iPhone

Is it a good idea to apply hand sanitizer on all of your paper money & coinage?

When you think about it, money is about as dirty as it gets...both figuratively & literally!

Money has always been dirty. Who knows what or who has touched it before you receive it. The term money laundering was chosen for a good reason!

I wonder if microwaving the bills would have any affect on the germ?

But we probably can't because isn't there metal threads in the bills now?

I've never done it before but I suppose one could spray some Lysol disinfectant on currency & coinage...and after that it's someone else's problem.

> I wonder if microwaving the bills would have any affect on the germ?

It is like running your microwave with nothing in it ... something the instructions say can break at least some microwaves out there. Not a good idea. Energy gets fed back into the magnetron and burns it out.

Hmmm, thanks CPA - maybe another reason it wouldn't work is because microwaves work on moving water molecules, and there is no water in a dollar bill?

Given "it doesn't work on dry stuff" weighed against "it will break your microwave" I'd emphasize the broken microwave myself. ;-)

Simple solution...boil your currency & coinage!

> Should I admonish someone who exits the men's room without washing their hands after coming out of a stall for #2? Or remind them to do so?

Nah. Once (insert virus of choice) hits 'em, they won't be using that stall for awhile. :/

Anyway, now that we're trying to find more stuff to hoard :P if you can't find hand sanitizer, 70% isopropyl alcohol kills the viruses. So use a 2:1 ratio of 99% isopropyl alcohol and aloe vera gel. Or just spray 70% isopropyl alcohol directly, since you'll want to use it to spray down surfaces. (The kitchen, btw, has more bacteria and germs than your bathroom.)

Washing hands is key, but another thing is social distancing. Particularly while standing in lines with other people.

I was in the supermarket a day ago and the people in line are so clueless and unthinking. I'll never really understand why Americans in line are so convinced that pushing against the person in front of you in line is going to help anything to go faster or be more pleasant? There was a guy behind me in line that kept bumping me to the point where I was ready to turn around and curse him out or just shove him.

In a situation like that I am practically at a loss for words.

Does anyone have a good positive calm civil response on what to say to people who are so reckless and clueless that they do not pay attention to what is going on?

As much as I might feel like it, I don't think turning around and bellowing "Hey DA, will you back the F off AH, don't you know there is an epidemic happening?"

Any clever ideas?

CPA, just start taking a cart and put it between you and the person behind. If you don't want to use a cart, just let the offending person you've tested positive for COVID and suggest that he back away? :)

EZ Way...just carry a small spray bottle of hydrogen peroxide.

Cheap & effective.