Staying healthy at Canberra Bridge Club

Canberra Bridge Club values a hygenic and healthy environment, which is safe for all our members and visitors to play in.

We have recently purchased additional bottles of hand sanitiser, to ensure there are bottles in convenient locations for you to use. If you are interested to make your own hand sanitiser, this article on how to make your own hand sanitiser may be helpful.

Our request to you, to help our Club stay healthy

  1. Wash your hands thoroughly and regularly. Please follow the hand washing guidance on the many posters on display and use the hand sanitisers at other times.
  2. Avoid touching your nose, mouth or eyes, especially if you haven't washed your hands for a while.
  3. If you have respiratory symptoms, please stay at home and return to bridge when you are feeling better.
  4. If you have been travelling, please observe the remmended isolation periods.

Other suggestions from experts (not compulsory at the Club)

  1. Don't handshake! Use a fist bump, slight bow, elbow bump, etc. 
  2. Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches. elevator buttons, etc.. Lift the fuel dispenser with a paper towel or use a disposable glove. 
  3. Open doors with your closed fist or hip - do not grasp the handle with your hand, unless there is no other way to open the door. Especially important on bathroom and post office/commercial doors. 
  4. Use disinfectant wipes at the stores when they are available, including wiping the handle and child seat in grocery carts. 
  5. Keep a bottle of sanitizer available at each of your home's entrances. AND in your car for use after getting fuel or touching other contaminated objects when you can't immediately wash your hands. 
  6. Cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue and discard. Use your elbow only if you have to. The clothing on your elbow will contain infectious virus that can be passed on for up to a week or more! 
  7. Zinc lozenges have been proven to be effective in blocking coronavirus (and most other viruses) from multiplying in your throat and nasopharynx. Use as directed several times each day when you begin to feel ANY "cold-like" symptoms beginning. It is best to lie down and let the lozenge dissolve in the back of your throat and nasopharynx.

Note: This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and sneezing. This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all the surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week on average - everything that is associated with infected people will be contaminated and potentially infectious. The virus is on surfaces and you will not be infected unless your unprotected face is directly coughed or sneezed upon. This virus only has cell receptors for lung cells (it only infects your lungs). The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose or mouth via your hands or an infected cough or sneeze onto or into your nose or mouth.

(adapted from James Robb, MD FCAP)