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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Where did I say that you shouldn't wash your hands or cover your coughs, or that you should go out and shake a thousand hands? Social distancing and hygiene techniques don't mean that you should barricade yourself in your house or spray everything you touch with disinfectant. If you think those are sensible precautions, of course you're free to do as you wish, nobody's stopping you.
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I'm immunosuppressed, with other risk factors also. Your chance of dying from this when you get it might be 2% (which is still a lot - how many people do you know?), but mine isn't. So yes, right now I'm using alcohol (not disinfectant, which usually refers to antibacterial products) on my hands (and phone and wheelchair joystick) when I'm out and have touched surfaces a bunch of other people have touched; I'm making anyone who enters my house wash their hands as they arrive; and I'm watching carefully, without panic, to consider a period of self-isolation near/at the peak.
This isn't a mental illness, or germaphobia, or panic, and nor am I using statements in the news media as my information source. It's sensible precautions.
There are public figures out there right now trying to prove a point that they're "not scared" by shaking zillions of hands, because they pigheadedly refuse to change their actions to fit the circumstances. That's just irresponsible.