are are you still disinfecting your groceries, wiping down your shoes, and leaving your mail outside to decontaminate?

March 14 last year I issued a dictum in my house (2 adults, 3 school age children):

NO ONE IN THIS HOUSE IS ALLOWED TO GET SICK

IF YOU GET SICK YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN

It was obviously more of a joke, but it worked like a charm.

We didn't do anything over the top, but we didn't all go riding the city bus to the hospital either or hang out at a crowded bar, either. We did whatever we could to continue like normal ... when things opened up, we went. Kids went to small parties and we'd just watch them a little while after. He and I didn't kiss each other if someone had a stuffy nose. We didn't drag the kids around shopping - why quadruple the chances?

We managed a couple vacations and a couple weekends away. We went to the shore for a week, to Great Wolf lodge, to Maine... We completed a high school field hockey season, which was pretty remarkable, considering the quarantine rules.

All the kids are much more diligent about washing their hands, sharing food and drinks, and about giving people space.

There was no need to decontaminate mail and groceries, only to wash our hands.

There are a lot of people packed into China. What we saw out of there was likely very real, but also not a full story. The numbers sick were a very small percent.

I think the virus is real, but for most, not bothersome.

I think they found some descendants genetics and are trying to genocide them (specifically anyone with a particular genetic sequence from being a descendant of a certain person.)

This is such a low percent of the population, it would appear to many that nothing is going on at all. It would, however, impact higher percents of people in certain regions...and possibly hit in waves as full coverage is difficult when humans are isolating.

So yes, real, can produce symptoms, not likely to kill unless you won the genetic lottery or were already very weak.

This is all my opinion and based on observations. Due to this, I don’t think excess washing etc helps. Certain cleanliness is prudent, but antibacterial soap should never be used. Horrible for the environment and that chemical when it combines with water is carcinogenic and could result in skin cancer. I expect in some decades we’ll notice a major uptick in skin cancer on the hands and oral cancer from certain toothpastes with triclosan in it. They will blame oral cancer on hpv. Neat, huh. Sorry for the OT

March 14 last year I issued a dictum in my house (2 adults, 3 school age children):

NO ONE IN THIS HOUSE IS ALLOWED TO GET SICK

IF YOU GET SICK YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN

It was obviously more of a joke, but it worked like a charm.

We didn't do anything over the top, but we didn't all go riding the city bus to the hospital either or hang out at a crowded bar, either. We did whatever we could to continue like normal ... when things opened up, we went. Kids went to small parties and we'd just watch them a little while after. He and I didn't kiss each other if someone had a stuffy nose. We didn't drag the kids around shopping - why quadruple the chances?

We managed a couple vacations and a couple weekends away. We went to the shore for a week, to Great Wolf lodge, to Maine... We completed a high school field hockey season, which was pretty remarkable, considering the quarantine rules.

All the kids are much more diligent about washing their hands, sharing food and drinks, and about giving people space.

There was no need to decontaminate mail and groceries, only to wash our hands.

I have no choice but to bring my toddler to the store with me

This kid eats bugs, dirt, and food off the floor. Caught him crunching on something at the grocery store, a bag of noodles had broken open... free snacks, lol.

He is healthy as a horse, no vaccines either

I have seen the following meme far too often to not realise a lot of illness is brought about by stress, prolonged FEAR being the biggest stressor

“in Africa doctors attribute some AIDS sickness to *voodoo death* syndrome, the term for illnesses induced psychologically. According to one nurse “We had people who were symptomaticallu AIDS patients
They were dying of AIDS, but when they were tested and found out they were negative they suddenly rebounded and are now perfectly healthy”

Yeah ... when mine were little I had to, too, but now the big one is old enough and responsible enough to babysit the younger ones for an hour or two. World-changing milestone right there :)

The kids had it the worst, IMO, because all their scheduled activities just stopped, and their routines were upended. They are all little troopers. It's a crazy world in which to be a kid.