should our shop stay open during this virus?

[Sativa Lung]

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First, we are a small shop.  We barely make rent every month and really are only open because of the love for skating.  At that, I have wanted to shut down over the past few days but the crew wants to stay working as we all know the shop has no money to pay anyone if we are shut down.  Money aside, people are still skating.  Im interested in hearing any suggestions and hope this can stay as positive as Slap gets.  Should we stay open?  Switch to some form of pick up only? close altogether until?

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Do you have a website? If not start a bigcartel or shopify, it's pretty simple to set up. Switch to online sales as your primary income as fast as possible.

If your area doesn't have mandatory non-essential business closings yet then do one person in the shop at a time and make them wash their hands before they touch anything, grab a box or two of gloves if you wanna really play it safe, and then just like... don't make out with them.

You're going to lose money over this, but any sane community will freeze rent and have some form of forgiveness for that. You're definitely not alone in your situation and there will almost certainly be some form of relief when shit starts to chill out.

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I dont have a website but we will set one up right away, thats a great recommendation.  We only have one person working at a time, there literally is no anti bacterial soap or toilet paper in town but we have a little of both for now.

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Do you have rubbing alcohol and dish soap? Same thing. I work in an ICU doing infection prevention stuff, the actual effective chemicals we use are bleach for the difficult stuff like cdiff, peroxides for typical bio waste and blood, and finally alcohol for the minor shit and entry/exit hand cleaning via sanitizer. All that stuff is is rubbing alcohol and detergents, and some moisturizers and scents. There's a reason we have to remove them from the room when the really crazy alcoholics get transferred over from the psych building.

Alcohol wipes from the needle exchange will probably clean your hands better than the little bottles people are hoarding right now. As far as microbes go, SARS-cov2 isn't actually that hard to kill. I think even copper will do the trick over the course of a few hours.

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shelves were empty of alcohol too

Just trying to point out that there's other ways beyond hand sanitizer to disinfect. This is more just general info but even the bar soap in your shower will fo the trick with this bug, it works a little differently but if you're washing your hands and not touching your face then it massively decreases the vectors for infection. Like I said it's not a particularly hardy microbe, I haven't looked it up but I'd imagine UV light is probably effective against it as well so if you have some grow lights or a tanning bed that would be another way to disinfect stuff.

But more than anything don't panic. This shit isn't doomsday. I'm in pretty much the highest risk profession for exposure and it's extremely likely im going to get it at some point but I'm not freaking out about it. People are acting like infection is a death sentence but if you're under 60 and aren't immunocompromised then the odds of it being fatal are miniscule... Like a fraction of 1%.

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close.  dont be a mormon and put your employees, customers and community at risk.

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lol

Radrats auto correct blew up his alt account spot?

I'm set. My rents taught me that Joe Smith saw the future and and all LDS25 familys need 2 years+ food storage. Granted, my own house is on its last roll of TP, but I'm finna raid my rents basement and get rich on the side of the road.   Guaranteed I'm not eating powdered dinner from a 5 gallon bucket this quick.  Gotta be The Road level desolation for that.

[theSketchLord]

Three Amigos are doing a free delivery service up to 10 kilometers.
Could that be something you could look into?

[wake and bacon]

curbside pickup + delivery + online orders only, no skaters/customers in the shop. employee(s) disinfect between every pickup. smartest way to stay open IMO

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First, we are a small shop.  We barely make rent every month and really are only open because of the love for skating.  At that, I have wanted to shut down over the past few days but the crew wants to stay working as we all know the shop has no money to pay anyone if we are shut down.  Money aside, people are still skating.  Im interested in hearing any suggestions and hope this can stay as positive as Slap gets.  Should we stay open?  Switch to some form of pick up only? close altogether until?

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Do you have a website? If not start a bigcartel or shopify, it's pretty simple to set up. Switch to online sales as your primary income as fast as possible.

If your area doesn't have mandatory non-essential business closings yet then do one person in the shop at a time and make them wash their hands before they touch anything, grab a box or two of gloves if you wanna really play it safe, and then just like... don't make out with them.

You're going to lose money over this, but any sane community will freeze rent and have some form of forgiveness for that. You're definitely not alone in your situation and there will almost certainly be some form of relief when shit starts to chill out.

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I dont have a website but we will set one up right away, thats a great recommendation.  We only have one person working at a time, there literally is no anti bacterial soap or toilet paper in town but we have a little of both for now.

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Do you have rubbing alcohol and dish soap? Same thing. I work in an ICU doing infection prevention stuff, the actual effective chemicals we use are bleach for the difficult stuff like cdiff, peroxides for typical bio waste and blood, and finally alcohol for the minor shit and entry/exit hand cleaning via sanitizer. All that stuff is is rubbing alcohol and detergents, and some moisturizers and scents. There's a reason we have to remove them from the room when the really crazy alcoholics get transferred over from the psych building.

Alcohol wipes from the needle exchange will probably clean your hands better than the little bottles people are hoarding right now. As far as microbes go, SARS-cov2 isn't actually that hard to kill. I think even copper will do the trick over the course of a few hours.

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shelves were empty of alcohol too

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Just trying to point out that there's other ways beyond hand sanitizer to disinfect. This is more just general info but even the bar soap in your shower will fo the trick with this bug, it works a little differently but if you're washing your hands and not touching your face then it massively decreases the vectors for infection. Like I said it's not a particularly hardy microbe, I haven't looked it up but I'd imagine UV light is probably effective against it as well so if you have some grow lights or a tanning bed that would be another way to disinfect stuff.

But more than anything don't panic. This shit isn't doomsday. I'm in pretty much the highest risk profession for exposure and it's extremely likely im going to get it at some point but I'm not freaking out about it. People are acting like infection is a death sentence but if you're under 60 and aren't immunocompromised then the odds of it being fatal are miniscule... Like a fraction of 1%.

Bacardi 151 should work. But I recommend using it orally, not topically