A sheriff in the next county over was diagnosed positive, and another lady in the nearest town was also diagnosed positive. It's a real virus and it does make folks sick. It kills elderlies and those with immuno disorders.
I'm not justifying the panic and freak out mode, because I think we are over reacting like chickens to an armadillo.
But we do need to be cautious, and be aware of those at risk. We all have loved ones that are at risk.
Yep one of my sons lives in Montgomery county and their wiping out all the meats,paper ect. at the stores. I was in Brazoria county until March 2 and right after I left is when their first cases popped up. There was just the cases in Lackland AFB then and so now it's the 22'nd and over 600 cases.
There's patterns online for mask(cloth type like Dr's use)... I had cancer in the past and after radiation and chemo have no lymph nodes and am immune compromised. We(me and my wife) do basically the same as we have done for years when shopping we take 1/3 cup(5 US TBS) in a gallon of h20. We put it in a plastic bucket and toss in a couple of wash rags then leave it on the counter.
When you stick you hands into it to get the rag put both hands in it and squeeze out the rag(just killed the germs on your hands). We take the wash rags and wipe down the things we touch at home but we also use them when shopping.
We put them in a sandwich bag and take it and paper towels squeezed out in the bleach water and use them on the shopping cart handles(get the ones in the bins in the parking lot and clean it with the paper towel you brought) I always park by the place where you put up the shopping carts(cart place to font door to trunk and to shopping cart bin is a straight line,lol)...
We use the paper towels on the gas nozzles and money(change) before we put it in our wallets. We use the wash rags for our hands,steering wheel doorknob(car)ect. When we get home we take the groceries in the trunk and take everything as were unpacking it and wipe down each can,package,box ect. as it goes into the house and discard the plastic bags in dumpster.
If you take the same pattern for a surgical mask and make two and sew them together but not the top then you have a pouch you can fold up a paper napkin and put it into it and have a disposable filter built in. When you get home from town take the filter out and throw it away. We take the surgical mask(homemade) and put them in the Clorox/h2o to kill the germs and wash them in the washing machine. We take the bucket of Clorox/h20 and leave it on the porch so it's there when we get home from town.
To me 1/3 cup of bleach to a gallon seems like a lot(and it is,lol) at times I have used as little as 1 tbl/sp but on the CDC site it says 1/3 cup=5 tbl spoons for Covid-19. If you keep wringing out the rags and putting your hands in it that strong it will begin to dry out your hands and irritate them. So We only use this when going to town where we interact with people other than that just soap at home and corn-huskers lotion(so be careful with the bleach,lol).
I bet what I'm saying seems a bit overboard but several years ago doctors explained to me that if I caught the seasonable flu it could kill me(viral pneumonia) and so as it seems many of us are now faced with the same danger and so I thought I should share some things I have learned about how I have evaded it.
There are other things I also had to learn such as allergies in Texas(pollen from pine trees turns you car yellow so you cant see out the windshield unless you wash the car everyday,lol) but Flu and allergies have don't have the same symptoms or treatments.