Are you preparing your home in case of Covid?

[QueenBlueberries]

The Government is now saying that most of the contagion happens in the home, so I wanted to ask if you wouldn't mind sharing any tips on how to try and prevent Covid from spreading from one member of the family to others.

I have prepared a small box (shoe box) with gloves, masks, Dettol, an old baby monitor (my kids are teenagers now but I somehow kept a baby monitor all those years at the back of a cupboard), paracetamol, face masks and a face shield. We have two bathrooms so I know how we will use the bathrooms in case someone gets infected. We also have good neighbours and we have all agreed to get food for each other if one of us get ill.

Any other tips??

We will try our best but I am not making preparations as its pointless in our situation. Half the kids share bedrooms, I share with Dh, bathrooms and kitchen are shared and younger children won't be easy to isolate. As an added complication, we also both work from home permanently at the moment, so any spare space is dedicated to working. Not something easy to change.

We will just have to see how it goes.

@hamstersarse I fully agree 🤯

Humidifier. A GP friend read a study that showed in humid atmospheres transmission is much lower. He now has a humidifier in his office at work as well as every room of his house.

We don't have a spare bed and live in a small flat so I think distancing would be difficult but we'd do our best. I actually think I may have had it back in the spring, we didn't do anything differently to normal inside the home but did stay home. Officially back then you didn't need to stay home with lost sense of smell but I did as this country was clearly hopelessly behind on that. DP never showed any symptoms so whether he caught it (if I had it) I don't know, but we didn't really distance.

Threads like this make me feel very anxious...not about covid but about the state of the flat...if I could get it properly organised for ordinary everyday life I would be pleased, never mind for isolation. I don't think it's crazy to plan a bit If you have a spare room, but realistically you will be able to leave stuff outside the door if and when it happens.