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Idea
When you check out at the supermarket, drug store, etc. you must punch in numbers on a keypad. Even if you pay cash, you must punch in your phone number. On the same keypad that hundreds of people have used before you.
My idea: I had some nitrile gloves. I took scissors and cut the finger and thumb parts from each. Now when I check out I just slide one over my right index finger and discard it as I leave the store. This way I get five uses for each glove.
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I saw a vid of the Brazillian solution: bend a heavy paperclip into a blunt point and tape it to a disposable lighter. Use the wire point to push buttons and when you're done light the lighter for a couple of seconds to sterilize the wire.
Our well-worked out system (been doing it since March 1st) is to both wear gloves. She's clean hands, I'm dirty hands. She keeps her hands in her pockets in the store as much as possible. At checkout she hands me a credit card out of a baggie. After use it goes back in the bag until we get home to decontaminate it. Everything is either sprayed or wiped down after having sat on newspaper that's discarded after use.
Non-critical packages go in trash bags for 10 days.
What you want is called finger cots; Amazon has nitriles, one brand is $15 for 144, another brand 720 for $25, or 210 latex for $5, several others. They look exactly like little condoms for your fingers, very useful for handling bullets during reloading without wearing gloves that make your hands sweaty.
You don't have to punch numbers into a keypad just to conduct a simple financial transaction at a store unless you choose to do so. I find it very easy to politely tell the to get bent and they will survive just fine without my PII. I put my card into the chip reader, I take my card out of the chip reader, and I don't touch the keypad at all.
You see this with more an more places going to self checkout. My grocery store eliminated about 4 cashier stations and replaced them with 6 self check out. nut they need two or three people there because a lot of stuff has codes that need to be entered.
Overall it loos self defeating but I am not sure.
I use lots of hand sanitizer
My local HEB store has a phone app that I use to scan each item as I put it in my cart, scan a QR code on an automated checkout terminal, show my phone-based receipt to the attendant and I'm on my merry way!
Apple Pay or Samsung pay or other contactless payments...
Just pull out a pen/knife/key and punch the numbers with that.
Am I the only one that just uses a knuckle?
I either 1) wear the whole glove or 2) carry a Lysol wipe and wipe down the touch pad, or 3) BOTH. I'm old enough not to care if I look silly.