With cleaning products flying off store shelves during the coronavirus spread, people are searching for alternative ways to disinfect their homes and offices. Medical contributor Dr. Natalie Azar offers explains which household items can be used to make your own cleaning solutions, with guidance from the CDC website. Aired on 3/17/2020.
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How To Disinfect Your Home When Cleaning Products Are Sold Out | MSNBC
Purell and disinfectant, I get. But why are people hoarding bottled water and toilet paper? 🤔
@ruth depew – Bravo, an excellent observation and a good idea and advise.
That got a ‘thumb’ up!
Never underestimate the power of a good poop.
I was wondering about the toilet paper until the comedian Lewis Black read a “rant” from a fan saying with all these lockdowns going on there are 4 more butts at her home all day and night and they are going through her toilet paper much more quickly. She wasn’t hoarding toilet paper. She needed more.
They just cleared out all the cat litter. I asked one if his cat really need 500 pounds of cat litter(10 x 50 pound bags). He said he didn’t have a cat but the tap water could turn off.
So the cat litter was for possible personal use. I checked 6 stores and no cat litter. I’m out, and my 17 year old cat is upset and not getting why I’m not changing it.
@VampliFyer There are shortages, just not TP. We had horrible farm yields that the government is covering up with fake numbers, to prevent panic. Also many base ingredients come from other countries like China.
Super markets are only getting 30% of their normal orders around here.
Don’t panic. No need for extra household cleaning measures–prevention is always the better method. Keep your house clean as you normally would and remember: the COVID-19 is not going to magically appear in your home out of nowhere. It first needs to be introduced.
So what do you clean your house with…..good intentions, bottled water and toilet paper?
@blue dog if you’re completely out of household cleaning products and your stores have none, there are some good suggestions in these comments. Maybe you can also check online for availability or trade items with people in your community.
@VampliFyer Not necessary thanks, hi from New Zealand. Stores are well stocked here.
@blue dog hello to you in NZ! Good to know that most of you there are well-stocked. Hopefully my comment may help someone who isn’t so fortunate.
Have you seen some people’s houses?
https://youtu.be/3WU1PR6UK5k
I hate cleaning up &I pay people $20-25 per hour to clean up after me! Good help is hard to find in America and I’m wondering if anybody is looking for a job?
Anybody that even wants a job like that is getting kicked out or picked up by ICE
Vodka or any liquor…
Source: old western movies
Alcohol by Volume Percent: Everclear = 95% / Bacardi 151 = 75.5%
They say here it needs to have 70% alcohol, vodka has only 40%.
Look for 151 proof or higher if need be, and dilute if higher to 70%
@Glenn Carpenter Working together, looks like Everclear = 95% / Bacardi 151 = 75.5%
My stores were out of rubbing alcohol but I found a bottle of cheap vodka that was 75% alcohol. I made my own hand sanitizer and disposable wipes using that and good old fashioned soap.
I don’t think cheap vodka is 75% alcohol. It isprobably 75 proof, whiuch is half of etoh content, so… 151 rum is 74.5% alcohol. 80 proof vodka is only 40% and that’s not quite enough to trust but better than nothing if you don’t let it gove you a false sense of security. Wash and rinse with your soap and vodka for at least 20 seconds and you should be fine. Purel etc is not a substitute for handwashing it’s an augment, it helps but we all still have to wash often. good luyck mel!
@Lars Jones could be rum but the number was 151 proof. I still have a bunch of travel size sanitizer gel and some rubbing alcohol. My OCD on hand washing is now a thing! But I worked with kids for many years so that habit never stopped. I live in a country that just shut a lot of places down today and has a lot of restrictions in place.
@melodk If the proof is 151, you’re fine. Most vodka isn’t though.
Greate video
Chinazi declared WWIII on 162 countries so far with this virus..time to fight back!! 🔥🔥🔊🔊
Your mother declared war on 162 countries by not getting a tubal ligation.
Yeah well lightweight ness, that extra proud fluffy cloud. I remember the old neighborhood, this 13 year old kid that went to school in his eagle scout merit badge outfit. He was a scrawny kid and took the brunt of the bullying round there. Black kids don’t like fluffy whiteness, go figure. I was always into the blind side street fight tactics as a kid. Saves a lot of time folks alway seem to go a bit to quick on your street fight blind side. Good way to lose your balanced riot diet. I never had much interest in street fights waste of time. Blind side tactics do save a lot of time if your just not into it, I never truly was.
Yeah I never was into fights, never can remember starting one. The devil’s globalist viral insider trading scam. Not bad, not bad was that our blind side? You 100% on that?
Next MAGA hatter you see just walk up to them and give them an Italian style kiss on both cheeks and a great big hug!
I lost my entire family to Coronavirus all dead dead dead …
but the good thing is I still have three rolls of toilet paper left.
Baby drumphf
Are you willing to take that risk for yourself? Some of them still call it a hoax and the rest moved on to the “its a bioweapon to take our Führer down!” conspiracy. Seriously, if there is a group of people I dont want to be near, its maggot hatters…
I use Milton fluid or Dettol. Washing up liquid is also effective as it breaks down the fatty virus outer layer
I just ordered some Barbicide. It’s the disinfectant that’s used in salons. Since it’s not sold in most stores, no one knows about it.
Soap. Soap works also. You don’t need to get super fancy. A put a dollop of soap on a damp rag and scrub my countertop with it. I let it dry a bit and then scrub it clean again with water. Done.
I am a retired doctor of Immunology specializing in virology. The main form of transmission is through cough and sneeze droplets on surfaces and hands, and in the air. Coronavirus and flu virus can both be greatly inactivated by hot soapy water, like dish or laundry detergent. The virus does not survive for long on dry surfaces. If necessary to clean, please use common sense.
@Abram Carroll Do you have any studies on that? Consider my explanation before reaching your own conclusions, when you read statements about these concerns. First, most ways of detecting the virus are based on sensitive molecular techniques . They can detect the presence of viral RNA, showing that the virus has been around. Viral RNA is very stable, but viral RNA itself is not infectious. The only experiment to determine whether a detected “hit” is infectious is to infect someone deliberately, and see if they get the disease. Obviously this cannot be done. Infectivity assays are experimentally performed on tissue culture cells, but this is only an approximation. What has been done in the cases you cite? Second, coronavirus is not a previously unknown entity, although coronavirus COVID-19 is a new mutant strain. The increased infectivity and mortality from COVID-19 is not due to any changes in virus structure per se. Coronavirus and Influenza virus have been studied extensively for decades. Both viruses are similar in structure, in that their genome is wrapped in a fatty acid membrane that is studded with proteins which bind to respiratory cells. This membrane is not very stable on dry surfaces, but it is stable on skin. Shaking hands and touching one’s face is common social behaviour. Can I tell you that the virus is no longer infectious after 3 days on a dry surface? No, I cannot, nor can anyone. But I can tell you that microscopic droplets from sneezing, coughing, heavy breathing, drooling, or whatever (not just water vapor), are the main forms of transmission by far. By far. By far. As I said, use common sense. Third, this is a respiratory virus. So much virus is being shed in a diseased person, that swallowing will inevitably allow viral fragments to come out in faeces. Is it infectious?
Gerry Waneck
Now that’s how you do it!
Thanks
@Cal Cal Apparently I’ve stimulated some discussion. That’s how I teach. Thanks for your comments.
Gerry Waneck
Thank you, Gerry.
@Gerry Waneck
“Do you have any studies on that?”
Here is one source.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973
“What has been done in the cases you cite?”
Live virus on surfaces was quantified by end-point titration on Vero E6 cells.
Electron microscopy can be used to determine if a virus is live and that was used to determine that the viral load in their stool was live.
“Third, this is a respiratory virus.”… “Is it infectious?”
ACE2 protein, proven to be a cell receptor for SARS-CoV-2, is expressed in large numbers in the glandular cells of gastric, duodenal, and rectal epithelia. This is the method that it infects the intestines and yes fecal to oral has been confirmed. Air born from fecal has not to my knowledge been confirmed, but is likely as it is viable and in high levels. Public bathrooms is a concern, particularly with those high volume air dryers for your hands, as they could aerosolize the virus.
I can provide more studies. How about you?
They should tell people not to mix cleaning products with each other. That can get really bad quickly.
That will happen as they by non disinfectant products and add bleach to make them disinfectant, and then the chlorine gas starts bubbling..
Duh😂. I already knew about all of that.👍.
Me, “hot, boiled water.”👍.
Me, “you can also use 50%+ isopropyl rubbing alcohol, or surgical alcohol to disinfect your hands.”👍.
I don’t have that problem….I just burn my house down and move into my garden shed!
Could always go to a pool store and buy some pool shock. Just dilute it down by using some test strips and there is your bleach. Calcium hypochlorite gives more bang per $1.
Dr. Azar
Why on earth are you playing into this ridiculous idea that “sanitizing” your home is going to protect you from this virus. Shame on you. Are you a freaking chiropractor?
Also, keep bleach solution in an opaque container to keep it away from light. Disinfectant power of bleach degrades quickly when exposed to light. And absolutely do not mix bleach with any other chemical — the fumes are poisonous.