Jerry, I wish it were that simple. Besides the air-borne transmission hazard, this virus can live for hours on some surfaces.
The fact that people are carriers of the virus, feel fine for days and unknowingly spread it, are complicating matters. I think about how many opportunities there are in an "average" day to be exposed.
On your way to wherever you stop for gas. Paying at the pump you punch the key pad with your finger tips, push your gas choice then grab the hose handle. Maybe you need to use the windshield cleaning sponge-on-stick before you leave. Then you pull the outside and inside door handles, grab the steering wheel and put it in gear. Whatever you touched is riding with you now. If you go inside and pay cash, the glove wearing clerk will take your money hand you back any dirty change that you might be due.
Many restrooms are paper towel free and force you to dry your hands with forced air, before you grab the handle on the exit door that only swings inward. Use the bank drive through to avoid others and you have to use the plastic vacuum tube carrier that 75 others held twice that day.
If you eat at a restaurant that uses hand held menus, I doubt they are sanitized at any time, just stuffed back in a rack.
A delivery shows up at your workplace that you need to sign for. You're handed the electronic devise that 500 other people held this week so that you can sign your name.
You turn the corner at a store isle and walk through the coughed up mist left behind by someone 15 seconds earlier. You're now on the medicine isle, where sick people shop. You pick up that bottle of cough syrup to buy that another sick person read the label on that day and put back.
I really believe that this will be much more serious and far reaching than most people are expecting. But I would rather be wrong and considered a fool.
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