Hygiene protocols

[preservefreak]

Keeping the whole house scrupulously clean will be very difficult after a collapse but there are some easy things that can be done to help:

make a definite separation of inside and outside the house. Outdoor boots and clothes should not be brought in the house and everyone coming in should wash their hands.

In the kitchen everyone coming in should wash their hands and any surface that's touched raw meat should be cleaned and then sanitized (sprayed down with a mix of water and either bleach or spirit alcohol. I keep a spray bottle just for this, they are excellent tools)

I agree that where possible no one who is ill should come into the kitchen. I also agree that pets should be absolutely barred from the kitchen and unless they never leave they house they shouldn't be let back in.

Where ever possible let washed plates, cutlery and pots air dry. Tea towels gather grime and microbes, you don't want to be wiping them back onto your clean plates.

When I say wash their hands I mean either wash in hot soapy water or wash with hot water and then apply hand sanitizer.