Wash your hands...and your coat!

Messages are supposed to be simple. Keep your hands away from your face. Wash your hands. For 20 seconds. Here's a cute song to help about the timeline. Here are some more songs that work. Here is Gloria Gaynor singing "I will survive." It's not quite 20 second; one can survive just on the singing alone.

But

(Guys must really be changing something on the Wash Your Hands front, if reports about one school in Seattle changing the soap in the men's room for the first time in 5 years are to be believed.)

As demonstrated by many public health officials trying to convey the message, NO ONE on the planet can keep their hands away from their faces!

And if RantWoman washes her hands several times / day for 20 seconds each time, RantWoman is going to wind up with very chapped cracked hands and smearing aloe or hand lotion all over may or may not do anything about deterring germs.

So, what is to be done?

Most people rub their eyes and scratch their noses much less with the side or back of their hands or with the last two fingers than with the thumb and index fingers. So what if RantWoman can move some of the normal button pushing door shoving either to other parts of her hand or if she must have a grip to her hand with a layer of coat or gloves between her hand and whatever she needs to touch?

To repeat, here are things RantWoman does to limit the number of germs RantWoman picks up on her index finger and thumb.

Use the side of the hand away from thumb and index finger to push as many buttons and hold as many doors as possible.

If one must grab something and cannot deal with gloves, put the sleeve of one's coat between one's hand and what one is grabbing. This does result in one's coat getting covered in whatever one would pick up on one's hands. Even worse, among the alarmist and hard to evaluate fear-mongering (?) pieces of information floating around the internet, The Virus supposedly can live on cloth a LONG time.

Virus? On Cloth?!?!?! Lasts A long Time. What about all those people coughing into their elbows? And now we are elbow-bumping too? Physical aspects of elbow-bumping get their own post. But ya know, if one is going to get germs all over one's coat, it probably would not hurt to throw the coatat least in a hot dryer on a regular basis too. Or clean your coat as recommended by the manufacturer.