Flattening the Curve: Hawaiian Style

Ω In the clinic or at an automobile accident, all medical staff are trained to assume all patients have some type of communicable disease and employ UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS to protect themselves.

Ω Any other assumption carries risk, to self and others

Ω Six feet separation is the MINIMUM ! A sneeze or cough can propel large droplets over 30 feet and leave the micro-droplets hanging in the air for minutes. Consider being crammed into an airplane or a bus and a ill person sneezes and you cannot get away.

Ω The bigger the crowd, the bigger the gamble.

Ω No place like home to shelter from people and their virus. To survive the virus needs people. It does not survive on objects very long at all.

Ω The "shower" from a cough or sneeze is obvious. We must knock those down. Yet even talking, especially words with Pʻs and Bʻs like Papa, make micro-showers.

Ω Even medical staff can let the guard down. Slow down and wash with intention to remove things you cannot see.

Ω The good news is Coronavirus are easy to inactivate. Detergents, and sanitizers are effective. But frequent cleaning is more important than with what type of cleaner used.

Ω To really flatten the curve, all people, not just some, need to behave as if they are infected.

Ω Otherwise, the people who choose not to care will become virus factories endangering the lives of the people closest to them and so on. It is about WE.