Sanitized hands; scents to be avoided and other provisions

RantWoman means to deliver a few different #CoronaVirusSeattle posts. These posts need a visual motif. Luckily between the Google and the TactileView program partnered with the  STAR CenterSTAR Center's Index Braille embosser, RantWoman has several options. RantWoman will explain the different options as they occur. RantWoman's point about this has to do with touch, handwashing, and frequently touched surfaces. Touch is a constant issue for blind people so think of this motif as blindness tourism.

CoronaVirus image from KomoNews.Com

Isn't this a cool image
But what info can one tell about
this virus' structure

Now that RantWoman has had one first-pass tantrum about the relevance of touch, RantWoman now offers some different rants from Planet RantWoman.

Senior Care

1. RantWoman is really glad to have been through both recovery from a surgery and a round over the last year of quarantine experiences for flu and norovirus at RantMom's retirement community. RantWoman and RantMom have both found some procedures irritating but bearable.

2. Aside from sincere concern for everyone involved, RantWoman finds the situation at Life Care in Kirkland just really frustrating. RantWoman gets that Life Care is a Skilled Nursing Facility and it makes sense to keep people if their level of illness does not require hospitalization. HOWEVER, the difference between having people at the care facility and having people in isolation at the hospital: under normal conditions, there are protocols for visiting loved ones in isolation at the hospital for example by putting on a protective robe, mask and gloves. That is not the case right now at that facility. RantWoman would be really pissed off if RantMom were convalescing somewhere and it were not possible somehow to visit. RantWoman says that in full awareness that pretty much everyone in the RantFamily except maybe Irrepressible Nephew falls into some category of increased risk. RantWoman can also live with the reality that solving this problem may not be automatic, but it is on RantWoman's mind.

Yes, a lot of detail gets lost
and no, a person cannot even
easily distinguish what is left

Handwashing and provisions

1. RantWoman is unclear why the urge to go out and stock up on provisions has caused such runs on bottled water and toilet paper. RantWoman considered just embracing the zeitgeist and adding toilet paper to the other things on  her most recent shopping list. But toilet paper is bulky and hard to store once it gets toted home. So no extra TP.

2. RantWoman thinks in various disaster preparedness events she has picked up some small packets of hand sanitizer or wipes. Probably time to dig those out of the various places RantWoman may have stashed them.

3. RantWoman had a chat with someone who has recently lost vision but who has 30 years of nursing experience. RantWoman was complaining about chapped hands from all the recommended handwashing. Nurse friend said the Corona Virus has an out membrane that alcohol destroys. Purel and similar products contain some kind of emolient to cut down the chapped hands issue. Twitter suggests vodka perhaps infused with one's preferred essential oils. RantWoman also figured just another bottle of rubbing alcohol might do in a pinch.

4. Yesterday RantWoman had brain space for ONE shopping excursion. RantWoman decided that what she cared about most was getting one of the giant heads of cauliflower she saw at another recent trip to her neighborhood Grocery Outlet. RantWoman figured she would take her chances about finding hand sanitizer or rubbing alcohol, but that cruciferous vegetables have enough reputation for warding off illness that cauliflower would be sufficient for the time being. RantWoman knows it's Grocery Outlet, home of gastronomic oxymorons such as "Extra Mild Picante Sauce" as well as many marketing blips. Even the cauliflower is not guaranteed still to be there and RantWoman had no expectations about the rubbing alcohol. Yes Cauliflower. No Rubbing alcohol.

5. RantWoman did though still mean to see about options for increased handwashing. Cue bottles of hand soap, cheap bottles with a whole palette of different scents. Scents? Scents sometimes sound like a good idea, but RantWoman has LOTS of experience with scents that are Just Too Much. Oh, heck. Buy 4 bottles of different scents. Scents that send RantWoman's nostrils into orbit can be donated to neighbors who probably will be really grateful. What is not to like? So far, "Clean Linen" gets moved along in the universe.

6. Other provisions that came home include larger than average bags of dried figs, pea pod crisps, and pistachios. RantWoman also found the boxes of blueberry "fig" bars. Then came popcorn, popcorn at an incredibly price and 2 bags for the price of one besides. Butter popcorn. High-fiber munchies. But RantWoman gave herself permission NOT to buy. RantWoman found herself afraid that the popcorn might contain way too much of whatever butter flavoring chemical that tastes great in small amounts and makes people sneeze or worse at higher levels. RantWoman will just have to have pandemic without popcorn for now, at least until RantWoman ventures out to some other store.