I have a lot of overlap with you—washing hands at the times you mention (my routine), not shaking hands, not touching shared surfaces in public. I also finally quit biting my nails and am doing intense cardio workouts like my life depends on it (interspersed with rest days), and got a UV cellphone sterilization thingie, and am taking Vitamin D, which my physician told me to do a while ago anyway. And I bought some supplies to make it easier to work from home.
I think preventing disease transmission within my family is a lost cause; my 1yo sneezes at my face all the time, my 5yo is unable to stop touching his face and then everything else. (In the other direction, reducing adult-to-kid transmission is lower-priority because COVID-19 appears to be roughly zero risk for kids their ages. Still, I wouldn’t cough in their faces!) So within the house, we’re just doing little things like changing clothes & hand-towels more frequently, and washing hands before meals. We’re not copper-taping doorknobs or bleaching surfaces or anything like that. (NB: I don’t have a lot of house guests like you.)
I’m also continuing to go to work and send kids to school. The decision-relevant consideration for me is whether we’re within 3 weeks of the local hospitals getting overwhelmed—I figure that’s when my personal demographic-adjusted fatality risk shoots up from a reasonable 0.1%ish to a pretty scary 2%ish. I don’t know when we’re going to cross that threshold, but I don’t think we’re there yet. (As of this writing, March 5.) (Note that exponential growth means I shouldn’t trust my intuitions; I need to think about this more carefully...) For my high-risk-factor family and friends, I’ve been encouraging them to avoid crowded public places etc. starting now; even with a functioning hospital system, I’m not happy about their risk.
(ETA: First-cut analysis here; I think I’m not going to go too crazy with social distancing at least until there are 100 people in my state being hospitalized for COVID-19 … by which point the schools may well be closed etc. anyway.)
I have a lot of overlap with you—washing hands at the times you mention (my routine), not shaking hands, not touching shared surfaces in public. I also finally quit biting my nails and am doing intense cardio workouts like my life depends on it (interspersed with rest days), and got a UV cellphone sterilization thingie, and am taking Vitamin D, which my physician told me to do a while ago anyway. And I bought some supplies to make it easier to work from home.
I think preventing disease transmission within my family is a lost cause; my 1yo sneezes at my face all the time, my 5yo is unable to stop touching his face and then everything else. (In the other direction, reducing adult-to-kid transmission is lower-priority because COVID-19 appears to be roughly zero risk for kids their ages. Still, I wouldn’t cough in their faces!) So within the house, we’re just doing little things like changing clothes & hand-towels more frequently, and washing hands before meals. We’re not copper-taping doorknobs or bleaching surfaces or anything like that. (NB: I don’t have a lot of house guests like you.)
I’m also continuing to go to work and send kids to school. The decision-relevant consideration for me is whether we’re within 3 weeks of the local hospitals getting overwhelmed—I figure that’s when my personal demographic-adjusted fatality risk shoots up from a reasonable 0.1%ish to a pretty scary 2%ish. I don’t know when we’re going to cross that threshold, but I don’t think we’re there yet. (As of this writing, March 5.) (Note that exponential growth means I shouldn’t trust my intuitions; I need to think about this more carefully...) For my high-risk-factor family and friends, I’ve been encouraging them to avoid crowded public places etc. starting now; even with a functioning hospital system, I’m not happy about their risk.
(ETA: First-cut analysis here; I think I’m not going to go too crazy with social distancing at least until there are 100 people in my state being hospitalized for COVID-19 … by which point the schools may well be closed etc. anyway.)