Responsible hosts - Corona virus

[muddy]

Thank you, Kate. This was a great contribution.

[Joan]

@Kate_Haynes

Temper fear with reason, panic with patience and uncertainty with education. We have an opportunity to learn a great deal about health hygiene and limiting the spread of innumerable transmissible diseases in our society. Let’s meet this challenge together in the best spirit of compassion for others, patience, and above all, an unfailing effort to seek truth, facts and knowledge as opposed to conjecture, speculation and catastrophizing.

Thank you so much for your voice of reason and experience. So very much needed in these testing times.

[southendbootboy]

an excellent, reasoned contribution - thanks Kate for being a voice of sanity!

[georgiahost]

@Kate_Haynes

I thought this was worth sharing.

Just in case it is not clear to anyone reading here, this piece was not written by @Kate_Haynes. She is “sharing” it with us. It is a copy of a Facebook post from Abdu Sharkawy.

Thank you for sharing this well reasoned post with us!

[HH_AZ]

Any additional things hosts should be doing? I’ve added the following to my normal cleaning routine:

• I’ve started to wash the pillow covers between each guest (note: pillow covers are below pillow cases)
• I’ve removed the few non washable decorative pillows (I guess those hosts questioning them have won the great debate )
• I’ve made sure I’m using alcohol on all cabinet pulls, door handles, light switches, thermostat, and places that warrant touching.
• I’m providing sanitizing wipes to guests so that they may also clean up after themselves.
• Also providing an extra box of tissues.

Any other suggestions?

[KKC]

@HH_AZ

Any other suggestions?

Fresh individually wrapped rolls of tp for each new stay. I move the partial rolls to my home to be used later. Any virus will die over time.

I normally use refillable water bottles but am considering going to single use plastic temporarily. I don’t want anyone to think for a second that maybe I don’t wash the bottles I use.

[RobbyG]

The voice of reason . Thank you

[HH_AZ]

Came across these articles:

Here’s Everything the CDC Wants You to Know About Cleaning Your Home Right Now

The Best Disinfectants for Fighting the Coronavirus, According to the EPA

[muddy]

Well, I pretty much clean like all those recommendations anyway, but good to post for those who don’t.
We may all end up losing money, but Clorox and Lysol should be showing healthy profits.

[NordlingHouse]

I serve on a local board, and one of the other members, our finance committee chair, is the director of the Alaska Permanent Fund, our state’s sovereign wealth fund, which was worth $65 billion before it dropped about $3 billion yesterday (back up today, though). I asked her if she was investing in Clorox, Proctor & Gamble, and Unilever, and she said “Of course, we always buy low and sell high!”.

[Barley]

Agreed. But it’s not a bad way to then highlight how carefully you’re cleaning, even if you do so always.

Though, I double dare a guest to ding me for cleanliness after I specifically message them to let the group know I’m disinfecting every light switch and outlet!

[adrienne12]

@murphysranch

I have no idea how to use a bidet. And I’m older so if crouching is necessary, I might just be toast.

Come one people, a bidet looks like a regular toilet. Same shape and size. Not lower, not higher. The only difference is that it has a device that propels a stream of water in the anus, thus cleaning it. But you can also ignore this function and use it as a regular toilet. My friend’s bidet had a remote to operate the water stream, to select how hot the water should be or modify the angle if it didn’t reach where it was supposed to reach. It also had a button to activate light inside the toilet so you could see it in the dark. this is just a sample of bodet available at home depot. there are cheaper (like 500$) and more expensive (like 5000$)
https://www.homedepot.com/p/TOTO-Carolina-II-Connect-1-Piece-1-28-GPF-Elongated-Toilet-with-Washlet-S350e-Bidet-and-CeFiOntect-in-Cotton-White-MW644584CEFG-01/300824841

[adrienne12]

@Barley

I’m disinfecting every light switch and outlet!

great! I didn’t think about this one.

[Barley]

It’s quick and easy, and is a nice affirmation for guests. Also, doorknobs, locks, and keys.

I also list that we ask guests to remove shoes in the house, as it’s cleaner and quieter, but guests are now being better about it when I pair it with hygiene…don’t bring the NYC Subway germs into the house, please!

Sometimes I think my background of working in health care serves me like a cleaning bootcamp…!

[sydney44me]

Suggestion. Air your home. Open windows. Wash all bedding, sheets and comforters at outside laundry. Wipe light switch, remotes, any surface with sanitizer. Hope yjis wirks for you

[Helsi]

Most of your suggestions won’t do anything to help minimise the risk of the virus being present in your listing sadly. Although all good things to do as a host anyway.

[muddy]

@adrienne12

But you can also ignore this function and use it as a regular toilet.

It’s been a long, long time since I was anywhere there was a bidet. And in those days, at least where I was, the bidet was an additional fixture- it couldn’t be used as a toilet.

[JohnF]

@adrienne12

But you can also ignore this function and use it as a regular toilet.

If you stayed with us, and did a shit in any of our bidets, it’d be one star across the board and €100 additional cleaning fee.

JF

[georgiahost]

@muddy

in those days, at least where I was, the bidet was an additional fixture

When I lived in the Netherlands (years ago!), the bidets we usually saw throughout Europe looked something like this:

The newer ones are built into the toilet seat and have fancy controls like this:

[muddy]

Exactly! The first photo is what I remember from travels in Europe 50 years ago. They were definitely not to be used as toilets.