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Proceedings of the Temporary Provisional Ministry of Contagion
(work in progress ...)
Premise
- Bad news: elevated risk of contagion in and around 2169 Mission
- Good news: hazards might possibly be mitigated via engineering and education
Observations
Hazards
- Unscheduled visitors not wearing masks and/or not maintaining distance
- Stairway air
- High-touch surfaces
- Air inside NB
- Grocery store on 1st floor (and similar elsewhere in neighborhood)
- No room for distancing
- People without masks.
- For people emerging from long shelter-in-place isolation:
- Be aware of urge to engage in conversation
- Be aware of influence via apparently normalized complacency
- Possibly less active immune system (?)
Recommendations
- Raise awareness: Visiting 2169 Mission is a risky activity. (Pepper yourself!)
- Initiate scheduled volunteers
- Agreed-upon protocols
- Buddy system
- Limit frequency of visits, consider post-visit quarantine
- Contact tracing / scheduled followup
- Agreed-upon protocols
- Disallow unscheduled visitors
- Avoid extended conversation when explaining
- Refer them to written info (such as this wiki page, etc - a printout or card would be nice)
- Be pleasant but do not risk health of self and others to accommodate
- Any rare exceptions should be discussed first with buddy and others in the space
- Contact tracing / scheduled folluwup
- Stairway:
- One person (or buddy pair?) at a time
- Avoid conversation on the way up the stairs
- High-touch surfaces:
- Indicate in all possible ways (ie, visual, tactile, audible)
- Doorknobs
- Light switches
- Bathroom
- Microwave
- Etc etc etc ...
- Disinfect all touchable surfaces when arriving as well as before leaving
- and/or wear gloves (?)
- Air inside NB:
- Limit amount of time breathing in the space
- Schedule "free-breathing" breaks
- Anticipate unmasking
- ADA accommodation (?)
- Designated area by window if (non-buddy) others in space
- Buddy pairs (or "social bubbles" ?) maybe could be maskless by mutual consent (?)
- recent SF order stipulates okay for "same household" working in area not accessible to public
- also may be okay if sufficiently distanced
- Ventilate thoroughly before leaving
- Technology: vents / air filters / (ionizers? UV?)
- Maintaining distance:
- Technology: proximity alarm ... ("SIX FEET, ASSHOLE!")
- Grocery store etc: be aware of risk, avoid unless properly (N95 etc) masked.
- Bring lunch etc
- NB could (should) provide supplies, snacks, beverages, coffee etc