Any of you kitting up to go out?

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I had to go out to Tractor Supply today, dog drama, don't ask, and decided to wear nitrile gloves and a dust mask. I'm not really afraid of catching anything but did it to put others at ease.

I remember when we had NBC (CBR) drills in service I would usually opt for MOPP level 5 (crawling in the back of a 5 ton truck and taking a nap until the all clear was sounded.
 
I went out twice yesterday- wore a mask both times but no gloves as we don't have them. But I keep disinfectant wipes and clean hands and anything else I touch getting in the truck.

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I wear a mask if I interact with people. If Its a busy place like a grocery store i de-con when I get home: clothes go in the washer as i come in the door then a shower right away. Bags sit on the floor by the door and get emptied right away then trashed.
 
Similar posture here. Only going direct to/from work. Grocery is just me, once a week. Gloved up, door handles and anything touched with the gloves get wiped down.

We’ve started a “decon” routine of stripping down outside, dropping clothes in hamper on way to shower. Some things are made a bit simpler living in the woods.

Today was next week’s grocery run. First time wearing a mask. It felt very antisocial at first, almost wrong, but I suspect it will be the norm for most of us very soon. Only have one procedural mask, so I’ll probably start using a shemagh or something similar eventually. Figure it’ll be months before there are real N95s on the shelves again.
 
I went to Lowes today, had masks and gloves in the car, didn’t feel the need to use them. Did use some hand sanitizer when I got back in the car. Got home and went to work on the computer, just now peeled off those clothes. I probably need to be a little more careful.

I did hear a guy in lowes talking about his mask with another masked man. He couldn’t get it to fit to his satisfaction, so he used 2-faced tape to stick it to his bearded face. That’ll be fun.
 
JimB said:
I did hear a guy in lowes talking about his mask with another masked man. He couldn’t get it to fit to his satisfaction, so he used 2-faced tape to stick it to his bearded face. That’ll be fun.
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seems like he's wasting perfectly good masks.
you can't cure stupid, but you can let it kill you.
then again, i have a beard and don't wear masks... yet.
 
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Most people around here are not wearing masks, I haven't been either, partially because I don't have any stock of them. As far as I can tell masks don't protect others unless you were gong to cough out in the open otherwise, but they do prevent you from touching your nose and face which is reason enough to wear them if you have them. I just don't like the growing sentiment that you are being irresponsible towards others if you aren't covered. If you're coughing/sneezing you should just stay home, but for the rare instance doing it in your shirt is going to be just as effective as in a mask. It's not an airborne bug, it's transmitted by droplets from sneezes, etc.
 
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Nothing unusual when I’m out around here. Low case count, mostly from
Assisted living facilities.

At work I’m carrying gloves, hand sanitizer, and Clorox wipes. The truck stop is where I’m most careful. I’ve changed my routine at my first stop so the last thing I do is wash my hands and leave. But on a normal day I see 10 people or less all day long.


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@Catfish and @Matt K are doing it right, right now...when the infection rate in your area starts going up and community spread begins, we all need to be uping the decon game.

Also...cover your eyes...viral point of entry is mouth, nose, eyes...wearing a mask and not protecting your eyes is still running a significant risk.
 
I use gloves at gas station. Have Clorox wipes in care along with hand sanitizer. I just ordered mask but I also work in assisted living. I am trying my best not to bring it home to my family and to bringing it in to my communities. Serving the greatest generation who did so much for our country I feel it’s not to much to try my best not to bring this crap to them.
 
Have gloves, use them to pump gas. Otherwise just avoiding people. I have a mix of work from home and having to go into the office. Only thing I have done different besides washing hands a lot more and using sanitizer is I upped what I carry in the car when I saw how crazy people got over toilet paper. Added an AR pistol and 3 mags. to go with my carry pistol. I expect nothing, but do plan on making it home if it goes south while I am at work.
 
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I don't think those are the real Kinder eggs.
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Well everyone knows that! You can’t give real kinder eggs to the trash around here, people would be choking to death en mass..
 
I've got a full beard and contemplating cutting it a lot shorter or shave it off entirely to get a better/good seal. That all depends on how bad this eventually gets. So, for now, I'm not masking up but full decon protocol when we get back home.
Glove wearers remember, if you don't change them between environments you're just spreading the same stuff around like not wearing and not washing. If you do it right, no gloves + proper washing and decon can be more effective at reducing spread.
 
About the only thing I'm doing differently is using only one hand, if I've got touch anything away from home. That way, I have a "clean" hand to grab the sanitizer. That, and staying away from people.

Speaking of people, I was getting some 100% gas the other day and while I was inside the station, I watched the cashier lick her finger before pulling the paper money out of the register tray.

She gon die.
 
Long_Hunter said:
@Catfish and @Matt K are doing it right, right now...when the infection rate in your area starts going up and community spread begins, we all need to be uping the decon game.

Also...cover your eyes...viral point of entry is mouth, nose, eyes...wearing a mask and not protecting your eyes is still running a significant risk.
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I forgot to mention I wear glasses, so eyes are covered. I'm probably in the at-risk group, being really out of shape and the wife is diabetic so I'm going to do my best at keeping it away from home.
I'm working on the being out of shape part but it's a slow process due to really bad knees.

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I love the people who just throw on some gloves before they leave the house and leave them on the whole time. Lot of good that's doing....

Also saw a guy at walmart with a mask just hanging around his neck.
 
Wife asked if I'm at risk due to work.
well... yes. but i've minimized my contact with people and will spend more time on skype with people 30 feet away (chair force, baby).
I reminded her that I used to amplify hep and hiv for a living, so I'm pretty good about staying clean, and the REASON I have been leaving my shoes at the door and taking my clothes off and doing a little washup as soon as I get home from work is because of what i could possibly be exposed to at work... I'm ahead of the game.. unfortunately most of the employees I do have to interact with sometimes are NOT quite so clean about stuff.

I've been getting into it lately with employees that keep wanting to sneak in through the back doors, punch in at the biometric keypad/scanner, mull around, hang out in the break room for a bit, hit the lockers, THEN go to get their temperature taken (IF they remember) before they get to their work area. the assistant managers are useless and passive about all of it (and even worse themselves most of the time) and trying to do as little work as possible while complaining that we should be closed - but they're not MY assistant managers, so I can't do much.
 
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Although I'm not wearing masks I do take other precautions. I keep a small alcohol soaked microfiber towel in a baggie in a cargo pocket, I use it to disinfect my hands after touching door handles, gas pumps, key pads, merchandise, and the merchandise itself if I keep it.

I've also started incorporating the concept of clean hand / unclean hand (but not for the reason of other cultures!). When I'm in a store pushing around a cart and touching things I use one hand to do all of it, keeping my right hand that I'm more likely to touch my face with by force of habit clean. Then I disinfect my left hand occasionally but it's not practical to do it after every contact in those situations.
 
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Not going places with people unless I have to, then only if there aren't a lot of cars out in the lot. Glad I did a big grocery run a couple weeks ago!
Gloves when getting gas and things like that. Disinfecting hand wipes and hand sanitizer.
Still taking drives, and going to empty land to shoot.
Not being around people a lot, unless there's room to keep distance.
 
Oh BTW I'm taking advantage of the crisis like a good Emanuelite by assuming obviously being armed is probably more acceptable now, so I'm open carrying a fair amount. I think exposing the masses to normal (and I use that term quite liberally in my case) people being armed does good things for our cause. And if you're going to open carry it has to be your best looking gun right? I don't have a proper OWB holster for this thing so I guess I'm only half OCing. I'm surprised at how well it conceals though when I cover it with my shirt. 2nd mag rides in a pocket holster.

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Oh BTW I'm taking advantage of the crisis like a good Emanuelite by assuming obviously being armed is probably more acceptable now, so I'm open carrying a fair amount. I think exposing the masses to normal (and I use that term quite liberally in my case) people being armed does good things for our cause. And if you're going to open carry it has to be your best looking gun right? I don't have a proper OWB holster for this thing so I guess I'm only half OCing. I'm surprised at how well it conceals though when I cover it with my shirt. 2nd mag rides in a pocket holster.

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I've noticed a few more folks open carrying lately when I was out and about. I switched from my GLOCK 43 to my GLOCK 20. I still keep it concealed but I don't try hard. It's surprisingly not obvious under just a tee shirt too...
 
Unfortunately not enough masks to waste over low risk places like grocery store. I do wear gloves though.

nothing else really changed. Other than my “pandemic trunk” comes with me on longer journeys (wife and I house hunting). This is basically just more emergency supplies than usual and some masks in case we need to go to high risk environment (hospital).
 
bigfelipe said:
I've noticed a few more folks open carrying lately when I was out and about. I switched from my GLOCK 43 to my GLOCK 20. I still keep it concealed but I don't try hard. It's surprisingly not obvious under just a tee shirt too...
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does it actually matter? Never really understood the concern in states where open carry is legal. If you have CCP should be good regardless of firearms visibility yeah?
 
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does it actually matter? Never really understood the concern in states where open carry is legal. If you have CCP should be good regardless of firearms visibility yeah?
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Here? No. In some places if you accidentally flash your CCW it's like brandishing... So, yes... But mostly, OPSEC I believe is the Tactical Timmy term... I prefer people not know I'm armed.
 
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Here? No. In some places if you accidentally flash your CCW it's like brandishing... So, yes... But mostly, OPSEC I believe is the Tactical Timmy term... I prefer people not know I'm armed.
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Yeah, gotcha. I've just lived places where open carry = illegal. But people still have the 'same' concerns and use similar verbiage here, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

from opsec, completely understood. same here. But these days I stroll around with no care in mind if my gun actually shows reaching for the last roll of single-ply, splintered-bamboo toilet paper on the top of the 8ft shelving at Walmart. there was a time when that used to be of legal consideration. I guess I replaced that with these stupid legally binding gun free zone signs. the laws of conservation prevail...damnit, thermodynamics can take my guns from my cold dead hands!
 
N95 all day at work. I don't have a huge stock of them, so I'm taking them off, putting in ziplock, and leaving in the garage, rotating them every 10 days or so. No gloves, as they're basically unobtanium, but I'm washing hands a lot.
 
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