#Hand Sanitizing And COVID-19

[alwaysbewoke]

[anti-ao3]

actually drugstores should be obligated to have a hand sanitizer in the entrance. and while i'm at it, masks should be free. fuck capitalism.

[justsayyesmiss]

Hand Sanitizer

[meekamaye]

2020: Covid 19 & Me

We all remember those days. The days of shutdowns, masks and untried vaccinations. I sure do. Let me tell you, if you can tough it through that, you can pretty much conquer anything. For me it began November 2019, Thanksgiving Day. I wandered upstairs to inform my husband I had made lunch. We had no plans, we weren’t going anywhere, it was just us two, no one else. His drinking had hit an all…

[nmsc-market-pulse]

Navigating the Hand Sanitizer Market: In-Depth Market Research and Future Outlook

The Hand Sanitizer Market has seen unprecedented growth, particularly in recent years due to heightened hygiene awareness and the global emphasis on health and safety. 

Key Highlights:

Surge in Demand: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly boosted the demand for hand sanitizers, turning them into essential household items. This surge has led to a permanent shift in consumer hygiene practices, maintaining a high demand for these products.

Product Innovation: Companies are continuously innovating to meet consumer preferences. From alcohol-based to alcohol-free sanitizers, and from gels to sprays and wipes, the market is witnessing a broad spectrum of product variations. Natural and organic ingredients are also becoming popular as consumers seek safer and skin-friendly options.

Regulatory Landscape: Compliance with health and safety standards is crucial in the hand sanitizer market. The research outlines the regulatory frameworks across different regions, highlighting the importance of adherence to ensure product safety and efficacy.

Distribution Channels: The rise of e-commerce has transformed the distribution landscape. While traditional retail remains significant, online sales have surged, driven by the convenience of doorstep delivery and a wide range of choices available to consumers.

Market Growth and Forecasts: The global hand sanitizer market is projected to continue its growth trajectory, with emerging markets playing a key role. Factors such as urbanization, increased health awareness, and government initiatives promoting hygiene are driving this growth.

Challenges and Strategies: The market faces challenges such as supply chain disruptions, fluctuating raw material prices, and market saturation in some regions. Our report suggests strategies for businesses to navigate these challenges, including diversification of product lines, strategic partnerships, and investment in sustainable practices.

The hand sanitizer market remains robust with significant growth prospects. Staying abreast of market trends, consumer preferences, and regulatory requirements will be key for businesses aiming to capitalize on this evolving market landscape.

[nobutumaycallmespookyman]

Sure, we all laugh at his strange demeanor, but if he where the president when Covid 19 was discovered, it would've never made it within 1000 miles of America.

[fringefiction]

COVID 2024: Five Day Quarantine May Be Lifted. Is It Business as Usual? Or Politics?

COVID 2024: Five Day Quarantine May Be Lifted. Is It Business as Usual? Or Politics? It may be a combination of both.

With the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) potentially lifting the five-day quarantine requirement, this should celebratory for most Americans. The CDC appears to be lifting home quarantine but not for nursing homes. Fringe Fiction thinks this may be a mix of business and politics involved in this decisiom with the CDC. Also, there may be preparation as COVID-19 may be the stage for “Disease X.”…

[iww-gnv]

California fast-food workers are forming a unique kind of union

Lizzet Aguilar has worked at a McDonald’s in Los Angeles for 17 years. She’s never once been given a paid day off. She’s never taken a vacation. When her husband or nine-year-old son get sick and need her to care for them—or if she gets sick herself—she has to call out and lose a day’s pay. “Es difícil,” she says: It’s difficult. Her wages are already low. She makes $16.78 per hour. “Estamos luchando día a día. Es difícil vivir en California,” says Aguilar: We live day to day. It’s difficult to live in California. But for many years she was afraid to speak up and join the Fight for 15, a national movement to raise the minimum wage that started with fast-food workers and has since seen 14 states and Washington, D.C., raise their minimum wages to $15 an hour, increasing pay for 26 million workers.   Then the pandemic hit and Aguilar’s boss didn’t give workers any hand sanitizer, gloves, or even masks. Six coworkers got COVID-19. “Ese me puso a decir, ‘Basta,’” she recalls: It pushed her to say, Enough. She got involved to protect herself and her family.  Now Aguilar will be part of the next evolution in the Fight for 15 movement: She and her coworkers will announce on February 9 that they are forming the California Fast Food Workers Union, which will be part of SEIU. Hundreds of workers from different fast-food companies will gather in Los Angeles to sign union cards. It’s time, Aguilar and her coworkers decided, to become more formal members of a union and pay dues. It’s a fresh start, she says, on the road toward securing bigger gains.

Read the rest here.

[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved in our archive

Just holy crap, y'all...

“We are asking all visitors and designated care partners to follow the steps below to prevent the spread of infection at HSN,” the hospital said Tuesday afternoon in a social media post. “Clean your hands frequently when visiting HSN using hand sanitizer... Masking at the hospital is optional, except on units experiencing an outbreak. “Visitors are required to self-screen for symptoms by reading signage as they enter the hospital,” HSN said. “Please do not visit patients at HSN if you are not feeling well, have had COVID-19 in the last 10 days or come into close contact with someone who has had COVID-19 in the last 10 days.” The number and severity of cases is not known.

Outbreak of an airborne disease of unknown size and severity, but no masks required and "please wash your hands :)"

[whilereadingandwalking]

In March 2020, I left Spain in a state of panic and tears. Covid-19 was a global emergency, but I had to snake maskless through crowds of hundred panicked tourists, shove myself into airplane seats, overuse my hand sanitizer, stand in endless Madrid & London airport lines, overhear racist remarks and people coughing into the air, for 36 hours straight. I got home sure I had Covid, cycling between a selfish sadness of my dream trip being canceled and overwhelming, isolated panic.

I recognize 2020 me, but 2024 me is utterly changed. From the little things (playing Animal Crossing with my sister with 900 miles between us, a Studio Ghibli movie marathon, the little neurotransmitters that make my nerves act wrong) to the big (watching my friends birth entire humans, seeing loved ones almost die, losing my job), I am new. I’m grown up now. I was 25 in Spain, now I’m 30.

Tomorrow, I’m going to step off my airplane, and I will be in Seville. Where I left off. The pandemic isn’t over, but it does feel like things have come full-circle. My family and I will go to Granada after that, and then I’ll go to Madrid. The dream cut short in 2020 will be completed, by a much different me. If I could see that me—maybe as I step off, she’ll be stepping on, in that same pocket of space—I would tell her that it will all be too much. But that she is going to find so much confidence and conviction in herself, up ahead. That she will survive it. That amidst all the pain, she’ll have so, so many adventures.

And I’d promise her: You will be back.

[charmedhypno]

Charmed! 2025 Covid Policy Update

Charmed! 2025 Covid-19 Policy

Charmed! is committed to hosting the safest event we possibly can as the world continues to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of this, the Convention Committee (“ConCom”) will continue to require up to date Covid vaccinations as well as masking for our attendees, staff, and volunteers at Charmed! 2025.

In addition, hand sanitizer stations will be available throughout Convention Space (“Con Space”) and our Dungeon Monitors (“DMs”) will be extremely proactive in reminding people to clean their equipment - if you need help please ask and it will be provided!

Please read the following policies carefully! They contain several important dates and deadlines – ignorance of these policies will not result in any exemptions.

Vaccination Policy

The newest Covid-19 vaccine update has been evaluated and released for use in the United States to people aged 6 months and older for Fall 2024. People can get the vaccination if it has been at least 2 months since their last vaccination for Covid-19. People who have not previously been vaccinated for Covid-19 are considered “up to date” with their vaccinations after receiving this single dose.

This vaccine update is free under most insurance plans in the United States (including Medicaid and Medicare), but is no longer offered for free by the United States government.

Free vaccinations may be available on a state-by-state basis; so check whether or not your state has a free adult vaccination program if you require a free option. People based in the United States can search for their local Health Department here: https://www.naccho.org/membership/lhd-directory

People who have been diagnosed with Covid-19 may wait 3 months before getting the updated vaccine.

In order to attend Charmed! 2025 in-person you must be up to date with your Covid vaccination: a person who is “up to date” with their vaccinations beginning September, 2024 is a person who has received the latest updated vaccine, released in September, 2024.

Vaccinations typically take around two weeks to reach full efficacy; therefore for the purposes of Charmed! 2025 vaccinations will be considered valid if they are received by or before Monday, January 6th, 2025.

In-person attendees of Charmed! 2025 will be required to show proof of “up to date” vaccination received in good time – that is, they must show proof that they have received the Fall 2024 vaccine update by or before January 6th, 2025. Proof may be in the form of one of the following: official paper vaccine card, electronic vaccine card, photocopy or digital representation of official vaccine card, website listing your name/vaccination date, dated email for an applicable vaccination appointment, a photograph of some part of the vaccination process (eg. the vial of serum), or other applicable media. If you are unsure that your form of proof will be valid, please contact us before arriving at the event. Proof of vaccination will be verified at badge pick-up.

You can contact us using one of the following ways: Email us at: Covid@Charmedhypno.org Contact us through Charmed! social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharmedHypno Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/groups/121240?sp=1 Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/charmedhypno Bluesky: https://charmedhypnocon.bsky.social/ Discord: DM @Noelle - I have answers!

People who are unable to get the updated Covid-19 vaccine for a three month period ending with the final day of Charmed! 2025 (January 26th, 2025) due to a previous Covid-19 infection will be considered “up to date” for the purposes of in-person attendance. Please contact ConCom if you become Covid-positive within this window.

IMPORTANT: if you have a Covid-19 infection that results in you being able to get the updated vaccine within the two week time period before Charmed! 2025 begins – that is, January 8th through January 22nd – you will not be considered “up to date” with your vaccination and will be ineligible to attend Charmed! 2025 in person.

PLEASE NOTE: the three month waiting period is a CDC recommendation and it may be possible for people to get the updated vaccine within that time period.

In-person attendees at Charmed! 2025 will be required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test taken within 48 hours of badge pick-up, (over-the-counter test is okay), in picture form in order to pick up their badge. Please do not bring a physical test with you to badge pick up - a picture on your phone is sufficient.

Mask Policy

In-person attendees at Charmed! 2025 will be required to wear well-fitting, high quality masks, such as N95s, KN95s, and FFP2s (or equivalent) at all times while in official convention space. This includes both the private convention area and Con Suite, as well as semi-public areas such as registration and the hallway outside of the upstairs classrooms.

If you are unable to acquire an N95 or similar mask, then pleated surgical masks are acceptable as a last resort.

Examples of unacceptable masks include: bandanas, gaiters, and scarfs.

Presenters and demo-bottoms may choose to remain unmasked only while actively presenting.

There are no mask exceptions for evening social events and dungeon play.

Masks may be raised, but not removed, in order to sip water and/or eat small snacks in Convention Space as needed.

A small number of masks may be available via Convention Operations for people who need them; however, we cannot guarantee this so please do your best to procure your own.

Testing Policy

In 2024, we did not require that attendees test daily but did highly recommend that they do so. For 2025, we are again highly recommending that people test daily before entering convention space. Over the counter tests are excellent at detecting a viral load in someone who is contagious, and are currently the best way for people to determine if they need to isolate themselves.

Convention Operations may have a small number of tests available for people who need them; please do not count on this and do your best to procure your own.

Policy Exemptions

Residents of countries that do not offer updated Covid-19 vaccines to the general population may be considered exempt from the requirement to be up-to-date by United States standards as long as they have received and can show confirmation that they received the primary course of vaccinations; that is, the original shot plus the two follow up shots.

We ask that people in non-U.S. countries who are eligible to receive updated vaccines continue to do so.

Attendees who are offered exemptions to the 2025 Covid-19 policy will be required to test daily while in attendance in person at Charmed! 2025 and to send verification of their negative test result to a member of ConCom before they are allowed entrance into official con space.

Failure to follow this policy may result in that person’s badge being pulled and them no longer being able to attend Charmed! 2025 in person.

We will continue to assess the status of attendees with possible medical exemptions on a case by case basis. If you are affected by this policy, please contact us as soon as you can via email at Covid@charmedhypno.org or dm Noelle_8033 on Discord.

There are no exemptions to the masking policy.

Covid Infections & Isolation Policy

Attendees, including all staff members, volunteers, presenters, etc, will be required to report and self-isolate if they test positive for Covid-19 while attending Charmed! 2025.

For the purposes of Charmed! 2025, an attendee who is “self-isolating” will remain in their private room as much as possible and will not enter any shared hotel spaces with convention members, including but not limited to: official Convention Spaces (areas past our security check points), shared convention spaces (eg. the badge pick up area, the hallway outside of upstairs classrooms), and the Charmed! 2025 Consuite (the enclosed room outside of regular Con space that is across from the public fireplace seating area.)

ConCom reserves the right to expand this list during the Convention in order to accommodate the number of in-person attendees present at Charmed! 2025.

Out of an abundance of caution, an initial positive test result will be taken as confirmation of infection, regardless of subsequent testing.

**The identity of anyone that contracts Covid-19 while at Charmed! 2025 will be kept anonymous unless otherwise unavoidable, unless that person wishes to share their identity.

Failure to report and self-isolate will result in the infected attendee’s badge being pulled and potentially a ban from Charmed! in the future.**

Reporting & Contact Tracing Policy

Anyone becoming positive for Covid-19 while attending Charmed! 2025 will be required to report and self-isolate. They will need to identify to ConCom classes/areas where they have been, including private spaces, and ConCom will inform the attendee population that they may have been exposed to Covid-19.

**The identity of anyone that contracts Covid-19 while at Charmed! 2025 will be kept anonymous unless otherwise unavoidable, unless that person wishes to share their identity.

Failure to report and self-isolate will result in the infected attendee’s badge being pulled and potentially a ban from Charmed! in the future.**

Charmed! 2025 is committed to providing as safe an environment as possible for our attendees. This may mean that our vaccination/mask requirements are stronger/stricter than those of other events or organizations. We understand that this can be frustrating, and we appreciate your adherence to these policies that are for the benefit of every attendee at Charmed! 2025.

[lestatslestits]

THIS is what I mean when I say that OCD is a fucking punchline to most people.

Monk felt fucking inescapable throughout the aughts. If you had OCD, you probably got called Monk. If someone you knew did something that they considered “OCD,” they probably compared themselves to Monk. It’s an incredibly narrow repetition of what OCD is but it was THE pop culture touchstone at the time. Sometimes it felt like a life raft and sometimes it felt like drowning, but it was always there. I’ll likely never work out all of my complex thoughts and feelings about it.

But it ended in 2009. Seeing these same jokes still being made fourteen years later (and, frankly, seeing hand sanitizer at a large public event get treated as some kind of haha funny overkill thing after years of surviving the COVID-19 pandemic) makes me feel so sick.

[agitateandeducate]

Season 2 of Severance comes out tomorrow…. so just a reminder that Covid is also LABOR ISSUE! If you haven't watched it yet, check out FightCovidNOLA's event "What Your Boss Won't Tell You About Covid" on youtube! Support the Legoretta Family via their GFM here: https://gofund.me/ce4cce24

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[id 1] a screenshot from the television show, Severance, featuring severed Macrodata Refinement team at Lumon. They are all staring in concern at someone offscreen, and holding Dylan back as they huddle around him. There is a white speech bubble with black text above Dylan's head: Undocumented workers are trying to survive through disasters and multiple pandemics, and the fucking state is doing raids. Abolish ice! [end id]

[id 2] a screenshot from the television show, Severance, featuring Helly, a severed employee. She is wearing a N95 bifold respirator and is staring into the screen at the viewer, with a confused expression on her face. There is a white speech bubble with black text below her face: employees need rest to recover from illness, but how can they do that when there’s no paid sick leave? [end id]

[id 3] a screenshot from the television show, Severance, featuring Mark's outie, who is sitting in his car in the Lumon parking lot before his shift. He is wearing a N95 bifold respirator and is crying. There is a white speech bubble with black text to the left of his face: another day forced to work for shit pay while trying to afford housing, healthcare, food that has mostly been recalled, PPE to avoid the spread of deadly diseases despite pandemic denialism, and be witness to multiple genocides perpetrated by our fascist government… [end id]

[id 4] a screenshot from the television show, Severance, featuring Seth Milchick, the supervisor on the severed floor at Lumon. He is wearing a duckbill respirator and has a fake smile on his face. There is a white speech bubble with black text to the right of his face: People are losing their jobs (and have been silenced and blacklisted for years) because of their support for a liberated Palestine, but sure, let’s pretend fascism is only just arriving because of Trump… [end id]

[id 5] a screenshot from the television show, Severance, featuring the Macrodata Refinement division team. They are all posing stiffly for a team photo and wearing n95 respirators. There is a white speech bubble with black text below their torsos: the coworkers that discuss their salaries & concerns can also discuss how to unionize - leverage your power! fuck the bosses that tell you not to talk about your pay, it's illegal! [end id]

[id 6] a screenshot from the television show Severance, featuring Mark's innie. He is wearing a cup N95 respirator and is looking past the viewer with a tense and somewhat nervous expression. There is a speech bubble to the left of his face with black text: I can share some studies and statistics that demonstrate Covid-19's long term effects & disproportionate racial impact on the community… we serve. taking covid precautions is actually one of the material ways to practice worker safety & the anti-racism in our DEI statement! next to his torso is white text within a black border: nonprofit employee trying to advocate for policies that protect themselves & the people they work with. [end id]

[id 7] a screenshot from the television show Severance, featuring Harmony Cobel, the manager of the severed floor at Lumon. She is maskless and screaming with her face scrunched up in fury. There is a speech bubble to the left of her face with black text: Implement covid precautions in our workplace? did you forget? we serve capitalism, you child!" next to his torso is white text within a black border: bootlicking executive director that hands over some hand sanitizer and tells them they need to be a team player [end id]

[pandemic-info]

The figures from this are amazing:

...to avoid inhaling the sanitizer vapor, the volunteers placed hands on one side of the body and turned the head to the opposite side, as shown on the right in Figure 2. The second practice was named as the vapor‐avoiding hand disinfection.

[verdemoun]

I'm legitimately thinking about the gang witnessing big events. Bessie was probably there when USSR collapsed. The gang and 9/11. Big advances in queer rights in general (I can definitely see Bill telling someone to turn up the radio after he hears a snippet). Covid, fucking covid. And that's just a few. That must've been wild. I can see some of the newcomers getting overwhelmed - the world has never seemed like this in their first life. There was never so much happening.

(i can also see Lenny fucking thriving; boy loves studying. I can DEFINITELY see him asking Bessie about events she witnessed before anyone arrived.)

I'M SO SORRY THIS WAS EATEN BY DRAFTS PLEASE ENJOY

Side shuffling around the gang living through 9/11 as a non-American who was alive but too busy shoving crayons up my nose to fully understand the devastation from 9/11 from a global perspective I am not going to attempt that But a) it definitely contributed to Arthur's fear of flying b) it was the first time the gang were seriously agitated by Bessie's no guns in the house rule because all the safety they had worked towards finding in modern era was ripped away from them and c) they would have been very bothered by the sheer amount of racism it inspired they did not go through 1899 bigotry just to watch it be born again.

QUEER RIGHTS MY PASSION

The gang were all over that shit they may still have a bit of that 1899 assumes pronouns and don't fully understand some LGBTQIA+ identities but most of them needed a hobby and keeping up to date with how queer rights were being adapted into civil rights was a whole gang affair.

Arthur hot for voting rights Morgan out there accidentally intimidating people to vote for parties that openly supported pro-lgbtqia+ agendas.

The number one thing Isaac never got in trouble from the gang for protesting no matter how much actual legal trouble he got into. He was wearing skirts and dresses to school to protest gendered uniforms, he was punching protestors in the face (maybe a lil trouble for that one but not nearly as much as he probably should have been), vandalizing homophobic signs and billboards he was out fighting.

Arthur picking him up from holding after teen Isaac got caught vandalizing a homophobic billboard and instead of a lecture Isaac gets McDonalds on the way home.

Bill didn't say outright it was to celebrate gay marriage finally being legalized but the day it was confirmed gay marriage was going nation-wide he invited everyone over for the biggest boozy cook-out ever and internalized homophobia be damned my boy can work a grill.

Also poor Bessie having to be the one to explain to the 1899 gang when they timewarped in 1999 that same-sex intercourse was still technically a crime and if anything the laws around it had gotten more explicitly anti-gay since 1899 when every single one of them was a little slice of fruit cake - the absolute riot she had to deal with in her living room.

COVID

Arthur was a nervous wreck. He died of the last plague and is absolutely convinced covid-19 would be his second demise. Comes off as really aggressive about people wearing masks and sanitizing their hands but in private Charles is fully aware he is absolutely terrified. Like paling as the death toll rises Charles having to convince him to turn off the news before he has a meltdown.

Arthur was living lockdown style even before lockdown was announced would not leave the house, sprayed any groceries left at the door with disinfectant, insisted Charles get changed out of outside-contaminated clothes before he walked into the house ect.

Charles had to be a very patient, loving supportive husband. Many bird houses and loafs of bread were made.

The gang very nearly shackled Hosea to the couch because his attitude was 'bah how many epidemics have i survived already' despite being an elderly smoker with pre-existing lung issues.

On his way home the day lockdown was announced Lenny bought as much gym equipment as he could fit in his car and while Sean absolutely went insane not being able to go out and do things he did accidentally get shredded because he would spend hours in the temporary home gym trying to burn energy.

Jack immediately dipped. Grabbed a suitcase and moved into Isaac's because being trapped at home with John, Uncle, Abigail and Addie would have resulted in someone being sent to hospital for grievous bodily injuries.

Kieran thrived. Objectively the peak of his neurodivergent and mental health. No cars? Reduced people in stores? 3ft apart? It was the first time he could leave the house without noise-cancelling headphones (still took them but wore them around his neck in bliss upon realizing how quiet it was). Jumped at the chance to go to the store or drop off things because he loved leaving the house when the world was so much more quiet.

Also little people-watcher knew exactly what things to drop off to just make someone's day a little less bad. Favorite snacks, fidgets, movies they'd love, craft kits. A lot of the gang were really grateful for how well Kieran actually knew them and looked forward to the random texts of presents left at the door-step.

Sulked when restrictions were taken away he was glad the pandemic was considered over but also having to retreat to those supports because outside was too overwhelming again. (i'm projecting)

Micah got covid twice during peak pandemic, was almost hospitalized the first time, and still anti-vac.

[quiet-admirer]

One great way to put fat activism and your support for fat people into practice is by masking up and getting vaccinated if you're able to! As well as handing out masks and hand sanitizer at gatherings or protests.

People with higher weights are thought to be at higher risk of complications and hospitalizations from COVID-19 (some research hypothezes this may be due to some biological mechanisms associated with higher weight but it's also likely due to or exacerbated by chronic and acute medical neglect too).

Individual behaviors aren't going to stop COVID, but you can do your part to chip in and help minimize spread in your community and amongst your loved ones!

(no shaming or hateful comments about people not masking or vaccinating on this post please)