Seriously, the sky is not falling

Is it a bit of a concern that one of the staff members who had contact with the infected nurse on Wed and was in our office on Thurs is now sick? Yes.

Since he mainly comes into our office for the express purpose of using our computers, does it make sense to extra-clean them? Absolutely. (Which would be why I redid them all yet again.)

But *glares @ can on desk* who the hell had the brilliant idea to use compressed air on them? I sincerely hope they at least were masked when they did it. Because while, on the one hand, they're seriously overdoing the mask bit here (and with the crappy 20 min ones), that would've been a good time to have one on. (The more I think about it, considering how disgusting keyboards get anyway, the more I think that's probably a wise idea anytime you take compressed air to a keyboard.)

*hides compressed air before anybody does that again*

Clean surfaces. Do not deliberately aerosolize the fomites, plskthxbai.

I just love that people are running around like Chicken Little in dire need of an Ativan, aren't using common sense, and are thus probably increasing the odds of spread, all the while thinking they're controlling it. Even the policy makers clearly haven't been educated enough about infection control, because I keep seeing the phrase "universal precautions" used completely incorrectly. Which (among other idiocy) I've been complaining about ever since they started developing the nearly-useless "pandemic flu protocol" last year, but nobody listens. *adds to file of "reasons we need at least one actual medical professional on staff, and no, I don't count yet"*

I'd headdesk, but the bleach fumes are bad enough without putting my face closer to it.