I thought I’d share the steps my housemates and I have taken to be safe from the coronavirus, just to spread info about what people are doing. I’d be interested in others saying some things that they’ve done. This isn’t exhaustive, I’ve almost certainly forgotten some things. (Note that we live in Berkeley, California, US.)
We don’t meet anyone from outside the house / go to work / go shopping, and generally stay in the house/garden. Some housemates take walks / go for a run, keeping 6 feet away from people at all times.
If anyone thinks there’s a need to leave for any reason, even if it’s to help the house in some way, they get permission either during a house meeting or via the house Slack.
We’ve put up proper hand-washing signs by all the sinks, and all do this regularly including around mealtimes.
We have stored about 3 months of food and necessities per person. Every 2 weeks, we’ll order 2 weeks of food+necessities on Amazon/Instacart, to have a clear headway in case any ordering services end up having month-long delays due to massive rise in demand.
We have bought a cheap car for any important travel and also to take trips to places where there are no people (to go for walks and so on).
We’ve covered basically all doorhandles, edges of drawers, and similar surfaces, with copper tape.
We leave packages outside for 2 days before opening them, or else using gloves, throw the cardboard away, disinfect the contents with disinfectant wipes, then remove gloves.
I’m taking a multi-vitamin each morning for the vitamin D.
Oli and I have set up an office space on the top floor outside my bedroom, with desks and monitors and such.
A few other our-situation-specific things we’ve done.
One person recently came back from international travel, so we got them a small solo AirBnb for 10 days and provided them with lots of food and snacks, to confirm that they’re symptom free. (They were careful on the flight, using disinfectant wipes on the plastic on their seat, not accepting anything from cabin crew, etc.) They’ll return to the house this week.
We had a non-rationalist renter who was moving out in the next month or so. They were unfortunately still using public transport and going to work, so we paid for them to have an AirBnb for that duration, and they’ve now finally moved out.
I got a VR headset for fun and exercise (BeatSaber is great!).
There’s a bunch more things we’ve done for the community, though that overlaps with things the LW team has done (e.g. Ray set up a community-wide spreadsheet for people to report the steps they’d taken and what level of exposure they are at).
I thought I’d share the steps my housemates and I have taken to be safe from the coronavirus, just to spread info about what people are doing. I’d be interested in others saying some things that they’ve done. This isn’t exhaustive, I’ve almost certainly forgotten some things. (Note that we live in Berkeley, California, US.)
We don’t meet anyone from outside the house / go to work / go shopping, and generally stay in the house/garden. Some housemates take walks / go for a run, keeping 6 feet away from people at all times.
If anyone thinks there’s a need to leave for any reason, even if it’s to help the house in some way, they get permission either during a house meeting or via the house Slack.
We’ve put up proper hand-washing signs by all the sinks, and all do this regularly including around mealtimes.
We have stored about 3 months of food and necessities per person. Every 2 weeks, we’ll order 2 weeks of food+necessities on Amazon/Instacart, to have a clear headway in case any ordering services end up having month-long delays due to massive rise in demand.
We have bought a cheap car for any important travel and also to take trips to places where there are no people (to go for walks and so on).
We’ve covered basically all doorhandles, edges of drawers, and similar surfaces, with copper tape.
We leave packages outside for 2 days before opening them, or else using gloves, throw the cardboard away, disinfect the contents with disinfectant wipes, then remove gloves.
I’m taking a multi-vitamin each morning for the vitamin D.
Oli and I have set up an office space on the top floor outside my bedroom, with desks and monitors and such.
A few other our-situation-specific things we’ve done.
One person recently came back from international travel, so we got them a small solo AirBnb for 10 days and provided them with lots of food and snacks, to confirm that they’re symptom free. (They were careful on the flight, using disinfectant wipes on the plastic on their seat, not accepting anything from cabin crew, etc.) They’ll return to the house this week.
We had a non-rationalist renter who was moving out in the next month or so. They were unfortunately still using public transport and going to work, so we paid for them to have an AirBnb for that duration, and they’ve now finally moved out.
I got a VR headset for fun and exercise (BeatSaber is great!).
There’s a bunch more things we’ve done for the community, though that overlaps with things the LW team has done (e.g. Ray set up a community-wide spreadsheet for people to report the steps they’d taken and what level of exposure they are at).