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BravoV:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 04, 2020, 11:57:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on March 04, 2020, 01:49:58 pm ---Wash hands or use isopropyl alcohol after handling any communal test equipment (power supplies, CROs, DMMS, probes, keyboards etc), or eating in the lunch room, prior to touching your face. Do not shake hands with anyone, even after scoring a big pay rise or congratulating someone. If you cannot wash your hands for whatever reason, such as you have just visited an electronics store, when you get to your car use an alcohol based hand sanitiser. Cannot get hand sanitiser? Mix isopropyl alcohol or metho with liquid soap or hand moisturiser. Keep the alcohol content high, like 50% to 80% in the mixture.

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I have a bunch of small atomiser spray bottles with a 70% isopropyl/water mix.

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Similar, just freshly bought these 5L of ethanol (ethyl alcohol) as the chemical material shop is in the route on the way home.

It will be diluted to about 70%. Reference -> CDC Chemical Disinfectants
sassywren:
I have been home based for more than a decade but guys, right now, there are AMAZING summer travel deals, I've just ordered tickets for 2 different Asian countries, tourism is going to be down and this is going to be the best summer to travel in a long time!

This is not a joke... I got the tickets...  It's just a cold for most people, I'll take the 3.5% risk, I think I take more risk when I drive in rush hour traffic on the freeway... xD
Halcyon:
The biggest disruption so far hasn't been the virus itself, rather the reaction by the public and the over-hyped media stories. The lunacy of "panic buying" toilet paper is one such example.

I think regardless of COVID-19, your business or organisation should have a disaster recovery and business continuity plan.

Dave, think of it this way: If your lab was to completely be destroyed, how would you continue to work? As for the kids staying home, treat it like the school holidays.
andy3055:
Everyone is talking about how many die every year by influenza and the need to be calm. But most don't realize the fact that so many have died from this stupid thing at this alarming rate with respect to time and not the percentage of infected to dead. Even the WHO took time to declare the seriousness of it just 2 days before when it was forced to do so!

The alcohol content is supposed to be a minimum 40% for killing the virus. Using alcohol alone creates another problem in that the skin gets dry/damaged which in turn makes one susceptible to infections via the skin surface. Hence the recommendation for hand sanitizers like the gels containing a minimum of 40% alcohol. I was able to get some with 70% alcohol for my travel and hope the shelves will be re-stocked in my hometown stores by the time we get back on the 10th. Boy, am I glad to be retired!

Hope all you guys will keep safety in mind than discounting the risk.
bd139:
That's not even the major risk. If it mutates into something neurotropic or more effective at infecting people then we are properly up shit creek. The key focus is to eliminate it before that happens. At the moment healthcare provision across the planet is quite frankly not cut out for this sort of load so that'll collapse first, care declines, people die (of this and other things) and then there's the logistics problem of disposing of lots of dead bodies which is arguably going to be difficult with our current social protocols. We couldn't even manage the foot and mouth outbreak here in 2001 as an example.

As for me, I work from home. Only risk is the kids at school and they're well equipped with proper hand sanitizers personal and school provided and have strict policies in place already including proposed shutdown protocols.

The biggest risk here in London? Public transport. Dirty as fuck on a good day.
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