Gas Pump Handles!!!!!!!!!

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Just went to fill up at the local HEB before the Apocalypse. As I swiped my card I came upon a dilemma?? I used my shirt to cover my finger as I pressed the buttons for my zip code and to use the touch screen to tell it "no wash", "no receipt", etc. But then it came to the pump handle??? That damn thing is touched by hundreds of people a day!!! I had no choice but to grab it with my bare hand.......I knew I had a container of sterilizer stuff in the car. So I filled up, cleaned my hands with that sterilizer stuff then went straight home, washed my hands twice and put some disposable gloves in my car for next time!!!
If you think I'm being paranoid, listen to this:

My daughter works at the same HEB (local grocery store). The HEB has a pharmacy where my daughter is employed (essential business). The other day a lady "called in" a prescription. But the pharmacy person that took the call noticed that she could hear someone violently coughing/hacking in the background. The next day the same lady came into the pharmacy and gave an HEB pharmacy employee the written prescription to get it filled. The HEB worker took the prescription and handed it to the next person in the pharmacy who was the same person that had taken the call the day earlier. She took it to the pharmacist who immediately recognized the script was one that would be given to someone with Corona. The pharmacist mentioned that fact to the girl that had handed him the script and she remembered the name and that it was the same lady that called the day before. The ALARMS went off!!! They called security and got the lady to admit that her brother was very sick at home (quarantined) and that he had been tested for the virus but did not have the results yet. She also told them that she never gets very close to him and drops off everything on the guys porch and never goes inside his house. SHE WAS LYING!!! They gave her the medicine and she was escorted to the parking lot. She had been shopping in the store for quite a while before her script was ready so the HEB people disinfected the shopping cart and everything that she had touched. The HEB shut down the pharmacy (temporarily) and had everyone disinfect themselves and the whole entire pharmacy interior, they were all very upset. The pharmacist was so pissed off they thought he was going to have to go home. My daughter came home took all her work clothes off, threw them in the wash and took a good shower. YOU CAN'T TRUST PEOPLE!!! If that same lady had filled her car with gas she would have had to grab a gas pump handle........AND PEOPLE WONDER HOW IT SPREADS??? All it takes is one irresponsible person to infect everyone in that pharmacy then for my daughter to bring it home to the whole family and for all the other employees to bring it home to their families!!! SO..........AM I PARANOID???
 
We're all feeling it , Nothing wrong with being careful . I find myself contemplating all the ways this virus could infect Me or my loved ones . It's stressful for sure.
 
I had same thoughts last week about gas pumps, grocery store doors that are not self opening, people actually buying fast food take out!!??? Yes some or many people are idiots and don't care! Example: the kids on the Fl. beaches last week! I wonder how many people will go to hospitals and be totally DEAD from their actions!? Sad.
 
[QUOTE="barbee6043, post: Example: the kids on the Fl. beaches last week! I wonder how many people will go to hospitals and be totally DEAD from their actions!? Sad.[/QUOTE]

Joe Rogan had a funny bit on his podcast about that He said something like "corona virus,they don't care about herpes or aids They just want to F**k"!
 
That is an ugly story. And being a realist isn't paranoia. I keep an old pair of gloves in my vehicle. They never come in the house. Keep in mind you don't get it directly through the skin.
 
Just went to fill up at the local HEB before the Apocalypse. As I swiped my card I came upon a dilemma?? I used my shirt to cover my finger as I pressed the buttons for my zip code and to use the touch screen to tell it "no wash", "no receipt", etc. But then it came to the pump handle??? That damn thing is touched by hundreds of people a day!!! I had no choice but to grab it with my bare hand.......I knew I had a container of sterilizer stuff in the car. So I filled up, cleaned my hands with that sterilizer stuff then went straight home, washed my hands twice and put some disposable gloves in my car for next time!!!
If you think I'm being paranoid, listen to this:

My daughter works at the same HEB (local grocery store). The HEB has a pharmacy where my daughter is employed (essential business). The other day a lady "called in" a prescription. But the pharmacy person that took the call noticed that she could hear someone violently coughing/hacking in the background. The next day the same lady came into the pharmacy and gave an HEB pharmacy employee the written prescription to get it filled. The HEB worker took the prescription and handed it to the next person in the pharmacy who was the same person that had taken the call the day earlier. She took it to the pharmacist who immediately recognized the script was one that would be given to someone with Corona. The pharmacist mentioned that fact to the girl that had handed him the script and she remembered the name and that it was the same lady that called the day before. The ALARMS went off!!! They called security and got the lady to admit that her brother was very sick at home (quarantined) and that he had been tested for the virus but did not have the results yet. She also told them that she never gets very close to him and drops off everything on the guys porch and never goes inside his house. SHE WAS LYING!!! They gave her the medicine and she was escorted to the parking lot. She had been shopping in the store for quite a while before her script was ready so the HEB people disinfected the shopping cart and everything that she had touched. The HEB shut down the pharmacy (temporarily) and had everyone disinfect themselves and the whole entire pharmacy interior, they were all very upset. The pharmacist was so pissed off they thought he was going to have to go home. My daughter came home took all her work clothes off, threw them in the wash and took a good shower. YOU CAN'T TRUST PEOPLE!!! If that same lady had filled her car with gas she would have had to grab a gas pump handle........AND PEOPLE WONDER HOW IT SPREADS??? All it takes is one irresponsible person to infect everyone in that pharmacy then for my daughter to bring it home to the whole family and for all the other employees to bring it home to their families!!! SO..........AM I PARANOID???
No. Justifiable paranoia. i dont understand why people dont understand the implications of their ignorance.
 
If you think I'm being paranoid

You aren't it was in the news a week or so ago about the gas pumps.

SO..........AM I PARANOID???

Again, no. It pays to be cautious, or should I say it costs less to be cautious, I know I am. Disposable gloves in the car for just that scenario, hand sanitizer afterward. We are under house arrest pretty much here in Michigan, can't be out and about without a reason, which in all honesty is ridiculous, if the wife and I want to jump in the Jeep and go for a ride, nope can't do that. There are places I can go and would never interact with anyone, but I can't. I wanted to go to the range the other day, but, I can't.
 
That is an ugly story. And being a realist isn't paranoia. I keep an old pair of gloves in my vehicle. They never come in the house. Keep in mind you don't get it directly through the skin.
My daughter and all the other pharmacy employees wear a glove on one hand, that hand they use to grab the script. The other hand is gloveless because they use their finger print to access the cash register system. Now they started using gloves on both hands with the finger tip of the glove cut off. Don't want my daughter getting sick and ending up in the hospital because of some stupid idiot!!! They are at high risk because anyone who might have Corona has to get a script somewhere???
 
My daughter and all the other pharmacy employees wear a glove on one hand, that hand they use to grab the script. The other hand is gloveless because they use their finger print to access the cash register system. Now they started using gloves on both hands with the finger tip of the glove cut off. Don't want my daughter getting sick and ending up in the hospital because of some stupid idiot!!! They are at high risk because anyone who might have Corona has to get a script somewhere???
If the patient has a viable prescription from the doctor, it can all be done online and delivered to the mailbox. Of course, you need a computer or smartphone and a bit of setup time to get started. Probably could be done with a phone call too. People that need medicine need to learn and use this method during these times. Stay safe.
 
Does the HEB pharmacy have a drive through? I picked up a script for a friend the other day, and then one for me the next day. Used the drive through both times. I have gloves in the rig for getting gas, and also a bottle of hand sanitizer.
 
Does the HEB pharmacy have a drive through? I picked up a script for a friend the other day, and then one for me the next day. Used the drive through both times. I have gloves in the rig for getting gas, and also a bottle of hand sanitizer.
Yes, they do have a "drive thru" and that is what the lady should have used.....but there's one draw back. According to all the experts, Corona can live/survive on paper/cardboard for 24 hours and on plastic for longer. So the lady would have had to touch the script (paper), and the large plastic container that "shoots" into the store. So the employee in the store would touch the script and the container and other customers would eventually all touch the same container as they go through the "drive through". It's a "no win, "no win" situation!!
This is why so many people are sick, every single thing that everyone touches (including money) has the ability to get you sick. They don't have to sneeze on you and they don't have to have any symptoms.
 
Joe Rogan had a funny bit on his podcast about that He said something like "corona virus,they don't care about herpes or aids They just want to F**k"!


Ummm, where is that again? lol
 
Here's what you do...buy a diesel
For now, leave the gas vehicles home and only drive the diesel (bigger tank, better mileage)
When it's time to fill up, dont freak out, just use the card, and pump the diesel
When your done, spray a little diesel on your hands, and wipe off

Done
 
Here's what you do...buy a diesel
For now, leave the gas vehicles home and only drive the diesel (bigger tank, better mileage)
When it's time to fill up, dont freak out, just use the card, and pump the diesel
When your done, spray a little diesel on your hands, and wipe off

Done
 
From another thread...

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Here's what you do...buy a diesel
For now, leave the gas vehicles home and only drive the diesel (bigger tank, better mileage)
When it's time to fill up, dont freak out, just use the card, and pump the diesel
When your done, spray a little diesel on your hands, and wipe off

Done
Not me. I cant stand the smell if that crap, before or after it burned .
 
I keep sanitizer in my truck and on my desk at work as well on the kitchen counter at home. My stash is running low and I am a bit concerned about replenishing it. Fueled my truck this morning and used the window washer paper towel to handle the pump. Then sanitizer and wash when I got home. I am thinking my blue rubber gloves will become part of my hands for a while.
listening to the talking heads this morning was depressing, seems we are a long way from the apex of the thing and china is getting a second wave of positive tests on people who recovered from the first go round, :-(
 
Keep a bunch of grocery store bags in your car. Use as a surrogate glove for the pump then toss
 
I haven't been for fuel for weeks. But I now have rubber gloves in my truck and a bottle of Spray Nine. If I have to go anywhere I put the gloves on outside the truck, do my thing, rinse the gloves and the door handle and continue on.
 
Some look at this and say what a bunch of bull, but many have never gone through separation of a loved one. Watching helplessly as my one day old son was lifeflighted in a helicopter to a hospital 25 miles away while his bedridden mother lays in a hospital bed. My dad and I make the drive to the hospital where I spend the most of my time for the next two weeks. Years later watching my father go through Alzheimer’s for six months making daily drives to the hospital to spend my last days with him. A few years later watching my mother go through bone cancer and begging to die rather than face the daily pain. Someday maybe your eyes will be opened.
 
Our local Wawa convenience store/gas station has an attendant outside full time now disinfecting the pump handles and key pads on the pumps after every customer uses them.

That’s how a responsible business is run!
 
I have a box of nitrile gloves that I purchased at Harbor Freight. They are medium duty, 5 mils thick, 100 in the box, and will hold water. They were cheap, and work great. I put on on when I go to the gas station, and throw it in the trash when leaving the pump.
 
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