Consider whether that trip is essential (Essential to your mental health counts).
Wear a mask any time you might have to interact with or be close to other humans, removing only to eat or drink. Always handle your mask by the sides, not the front. Carry a small bottle of hand sanitizer and sanitze your hands after removing a mask and after putting it back on. Put your mask in a paper bag or large envelope, NOT on a surface somebody else has to clean. Wash your mask every time you use it. The mask is not to protect you. It is to protect others. It is not a sign you are a coward.
Wash your hands before leaving the house and after returning.
Touch as little as possible.
If shopping, try to touch only merchandise you intend to buy. If you have to try clothes on, don’t put the ones you don’t want back on the shelf to be nice to the workers. They probably have to wash them. Get in, get out, don’t linger.
If you really want to eat out and the restaurant has outdoor seating, sit outside if the weather allows. Transmission rates are much higher indoors. (This is why some places are only allowing outdoor seating currently).
Continue to stay six feet from people not in your household as much as possible.
Don’t hug or shake hands.
At some point we will have sufficient effective treatments (remdesivir alone is not sufficient due to its cost and the fact that it doesn’t actually help everyone) that we’ll be able to start relaxing this. But this is how we’re going to have to live for a while.
Don’t think of it as everyone else being toxic. Because omg is that bad for you. I just read an article from somebody who’s fallen into that trap and the poor woman can barely function.
Think of this as everyone else is vulnerable and you are shielding them.
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