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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp
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Mask is pretty much all sold out. You might be lucky to get a box or two at regular price if you happen to be at the store that just got stock. All the anti-bacterial wet wipes sold out as well. There are still some anti-bacterial wipes out there but they are not safe on skin(only use for cleaning). Rubbing Alohcol is being bought up as well. Lot's of place were out of stock earlier but I think they have some now. Wife and I bought a bottle at London Drugs but you have to get it at customer service. I am guessing they do this to prevent people from buying all the stocks.
Next thing that is going to be sold out pretty quick is anti-bacterial soap. You can still find them at London drugs but I suspect as soon as the Chinese community figure this out it will be gone (BTW the brand is call safeguard). You can still buy mask online but price is like 7x higher than normal.
Wife and I order 5 boxes of N95 mask like a month again online. Still haven't receive them yet. Status is saying seller is preparing them. We kinda of need it coz the plan was to travel back to China in March. But we are most likely to reschedule it to End of April or May. Ticket is purchased though Air Canada and since they suspend flight till end of Feb if we were to reschedule we have to pay out of our pickets so we are waiting right now. We also bought 10 packs of Wet wipes to use in China and a bunch of travel size Purell to bring with us.
The Gov is too scare to do anything in case people call them racist or if they put any policy that target a specific group. My niece goes to pre school now and there are a lot Chinese that comes back after holidays. School refuse to force these kids to go to school due to the fact health officals refuse to issue statements advising people returning from China needs to self quarantine for 14 days.
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Just thought I'd spill some thoughts out here as I watch some XFL
BTW you don't need anti-bacterial soap - regular soap will clear your hands of the gunk that the virus lives within. Same goes for those hand wipes.
The thing to keep in mind is, the virus doesn't exist outside its environment of human goop. Either mucous, spit, snot, or poop. You don't need to "kill the virus" with soap, you just need to clean the crap that the virus resides in while on your hands.
Keep your hands clean, keep your hands off your face when they're not clean.
If you live in a condo, get to your strata and put together a plan to clean door handles and elevator buttons on the hour.
Gloves are a good idea, maybe even more important than masks. Masks are overrated, but as I said before, it's paradoxically a good thing they are overrated. I just wish the govt would distribute to people in need who are most at risk. We gave all our pre-wrapped masks to homeless people we came across yesterday throughout TST and Jordan. Govt isn't watching out for people, so we need to watch out for each other.
Change your hand towels or whatever you use to dry your hands after washing them, like every day or every other day. Some people leave these up for way too long, and now is not a good time for that
So far 99% of the infections have come from not one country, but practically one
city. It's not "racist" to keep people from that city contained. If your niece goes to a school where there's a chance someone else went to that city or near it, absolutely don't go there for at least a couple weeks!
That 99% is not going to last forever. Already people are getting sick with no travel or known contact with anyone from Hubei or even China. WHO says this is very worrying, and could be "
the tip of the iceberg" for local transmission.
In other words, despite all the lockdowns and flight cancellations and border controls, the virus was NOT contained.
The excuse of being "racist" no longer exists.
The goal now is for each country to manage and contain the outbreak as it makes its way around the world. Good luck!
