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I propose we create a thread ( let's try this one, unless it gets derailed quickly by too much meta) wherein we propose and discuss concrete measures that we can take daily in our lives, to mitigate the reach and effect of our new sworn enemy, the coronavirus ( formally known as SARS-CoV-2).
Beyond just personal protection, I'm talking about active (practical) measures that each of us can take to destroy as many virus particles as possible.
Obviously, the first line of defense is your own body. Since the virus needs our body in order to replicate and spread, deny it that by preventing infection of your body. Failing that, deny it the ability to transmit itself beyond your body. Those are two steps that YOU (yes, I'm looking right at YOU) very likely have some level of control over.
The opposite of what I'm proposing is thinking that "oh well, it's inevitable, I'll just take my chances".
Next level is those immediately around you, usually family. Same principle.
Keep widening the circle, and let's come up with steps we can take to do our part.
I'd like to start with the concept of us, those of us that still interact with the environment outside our house, but it still applies inside your house, and that is: destroying the virus.
Not just running away from it or hiding from it, because those are viable strategies to prevent #1 above (denying it use if your body as host), but DESTROYING it where it may lurk waiting to hitch a ride onto another host.
Take every opportunity you have to destroy the virus where it most likely lingers.
The big question is how to practically do this. Of course, it may prove meaningless due to the scope, but why not try?
The goal is to buy time. Time for a vaccine to be developed.
Here's an example of the sort of measures I'm thinking about: instead of just avoiding touching that doorknob that you think may be covered in virus, how about spraying it with 70% alcohol, or 3% hydrogen peroxide, or wiping it off with an alcohol wipe (not just a wet wipe, but something that will destroy the virus).
Get my drift? What ideas do you have for guerilla warfare in your neighborhood against SARS-CoV-2?