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Originally Posted by meeera
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.
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Increasing your social interactions during an outbreak is irresponsible and stupid, of course. I haven't said, nor do I think, otherwise. It's not the time for partying or traveling. Also I said that ordinary washing should be sufficient for people with normal immune systems. You and other people with compromised immunity are obviously special cases. But given the reports about empty shelves, generally healthy people must be buying sanitizers and disinfectants (some of the latter destroy viruses too) in massive amounts. And that's pure mass hysteria, considering that the coronavirus spreads mostly from person to person, with droplets, through air.