I work at an independent repair shop and we have been using plastic seat covers and steering wheel covers in every car. We also provide face masks, gloves, bleach wipes, hand sanitizer, and spray to all our employees to use as they see fit.
As a retail business that depends on happy customers to stay in business, Covid procedures are as much about customer satisfaction as employee safety. Unfortunately, we can not meet everyone’s needs and expectations.
We have clear signage displayed that face masks are required to enter. Still, we have a number of people who walk in declaring “I’m not doing any of that bullsh#t. It’s my right.” Well, OK. It’s also our right to comply with all state and local regulations and we have decided that for you to come in the door you will wear a mask.
On the other hand we have people cautious to a fault. A woman came in to drop her car for an alignment and before she walked in the door she pointed across the parking lot at the shop assistant sorting the recycling and yelled “That guy’s not wearing a mask!” The service writer said, “well, he’s working outside.” Then she pointed at me (at my toolbox) and said “He’s not wearing a mask either!” The service writer explained that I was in my restricted work area, and it’s hard to wear a mask while eating lunch. She proceeded to the check in area, where now everyone wears masks and customers and staff are separated by a 6 foot counter and a plexiglass barrier. She looked up at the ceiling and said “Is the heat on in here?” Well yes maam, it’s 38 degrees today. “Give me my keys back. Don’t you know covid can be transmitted through heating ducts?” Then she went online and left a one-star review because we don’t care about customer safety.
We still have a few Malibus and Tauruses from the early 2000s in our fleet
The only reason they’re still around is that cars around here don’t tend to rust out, and these particular cars are low mileage
They have airbags, not those awful motorized belts
One of our vendors is dead set against following any kinds of covid-19 safety protocols at his shop . . . a business that specializes in automatic transmission overhauls and rear-end overhauls. I dropped off a truck there a month or two back. Not one single person wearing a mask or gloves. And that includes the owner, the owner’s wife, mechanics AND the customers.
Needless to say, I was wearing a mask and couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
I didn’t say anything to the business owner. I’m polite about stuff like that.
But when I came back to our shop, I made sure to tell the supervisor about what I observed.
Sadly to say, he couldn’t care less . . .
But the good news is that the succeeding supervisor takes covid-19 safety protocols very seriously
I wear a mask and even after COVID is history, I will continue to wear a mask, because Mrs. Triedaq says I look better when I wear a mask. She says it makes me look ‘extinguished’.
I bought some N-95 masks some years back when I was using my mower to mulch leaves. I didn’t like breathing the leaf dust. A couple of years later, the mower began burning oil and putting out blue smoke, so I wore a mask when I would mow the yard. That mower finally gave out near the end of the season. The compression was so low that it just won’t start. I bought three years of use using synthetic oil, which cut oil consumption by 75%, but it wasn’t a permanent fix. I have a smaller mower that I used to finish the season.
Triedaq
I wear a mask and even after COVID is history, I will continue to wear a mask, because Mrs. Triedaq says I look better when I wear a mask. She says it makes me look ‘extinguished’.
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If truth be known most if not all of our wife’s feel the same way but may be too polite to say so to our face.
'In a new study, Dr. Mathai and three colleagues at Brown University - Asimanshu Das, Jeffrey Bailey and Kenneth Breuer - used computer simulations to map how virus-laden airborne particles might flow through the inside of a car. Their results, published in early January in Science Advances , suggest that opening certain windows can create air currents that could help keep both riders and drivers safe from infectious diseases like Covid-19.'
A couple of weeks ago, at Costco, I was able to buy ArmorAll Disinfectant Spray.
It is designed to be used on hard, non-porous surfaces (plastic, vinyl, metal, glass, mirrors, painted surfaces, mats, and door handles).
The label states that it kills several types of bacteria in 10 minutes, and–more importantly–that it also kills both Human Coronavirus and Influenza A virus in 10 minutes.
