New York City has been in lockdown since March 22, which implies that an individual is to go out for necessities.
It is acceptable to leave your home if you have an essential job, need to get prescriptions, food, and how about we do not overlook the booze as they are as yet keeping the liquor stores open.
Governor Cuomo emphasized that it is so critical to keep the time you are out of your home to an absolute minimum. New cases for the Covid-19 are springing up every day, and they will, going forward due to the tests that they conducted last week. Each day hundreds are testing positive for the virus just in New York City alone.
Indeed, the well-known adage “it’s a jungle out there” would now be presumably true because each time you are out of your house, you are in danger of coming in contact with the Coronavirus.
In any case, there are certain measures you can take to prevent the “invisible enemy” from taking over you. Director of Ameristar Homecare Services in Far Rockaway, Maureen Mackey, an RN with more than 30 years’ experience, provided Kings County Politics with detailed instructions:
- Always wear medical gloves when leaving your house
- Wear a mask, so there is a filter between your mouth and nose. It also prevents you from touching your mouth
- Stay 6 feet away from an individual
- When you come home, leave your gloves on to sanitize the products you bought
- Make sure that each product is left for four minutes with the disinfectant on it
- Wipe down the plastic bags / wash your reusable bags
- Remove your clothes and wash them
If you do not have disinfectant wipes, you can make your own by mixing ¼ cup of bleach to 1 gallon of water.
We are living in an inconvenienced and unprecedented world at this moment, and we must abide by rules. Keeping your distance will help avert the spread. Mackey explained to Kings County Politics, “This virus is a nasty one, nothing is going to stop it. We must keep our distance. As a director of a licensed home care agency, I had to stress to workers that we cannot get too close to others,” she said.
“Every day we are updated with information from our elected officials, and we feel like sitting ducks hoping that this does not get worse, but we need to do our part, remain home and practice social distancing,” she added.
Click here to watch the full interview with Maureen Mackey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-D0hMoNKEI&t=105s
