Prototype CDC Guidelines for Reopening America

Maintaining Personal Hygiene

  1. Avoid touching your face; (use gloves or chili on your hands as a reminder)
  2. Wash your hands with soap and water often - for at least 20 seconds each time
  3. Do NOT use high velocity air dryers to dry your hands. Leave immediately if installed.
  4. Use a dry wipe or glove on the door handle when exiting a restroom
  5. Do not litter. Look for a trash can stationed outside when you enter a restroom
  6. Cover coughs and sneezes with your elbow, or with a face mask or bandanna
  7. Use outerwear and shoes when outside home or work; take them off before stepping inside your home

Interaction With Other People

  1. Stay home if you are sick
  2. Maintain a distance of at least 6ft from others
  3. (Avoid public transport and crowds)
  4. If you have to cough or sneeze, cover it, and direct the blast downwards
  5. Make handshakes and hugs meaningful again. Avoid them until trust is established

Requirements to Reopen Businesses

  1. Define, publish, and enforce plan for adequate crowd control
  2. Have adequate procedures to detect and send home employees who show up sick.
  3. Sick customers should not be allowed to use self service
  4. Ventilation should be designed to avoid air recirculation and eddies in internal spaces unless pathogens are filtered out or killed before recirculation. This is DIFFERENT from having adequate "air exchange" for freshness.
  5. Businesses with relatively still air and calm people can operate if they can maintain a 6ft distance between people
  6. Businesses with active people (such as dance exercise) should establish downward airflows around people that prevent particles from one person reaching the face of another person
  7. Religious or social services should examine their customs for high contact activities and eliminate them, or substitute low contact activities
  8. Team sports or performances should identify small isolatable groups of known people, admit people to these groups only after vaccination or under tight supervision and testing. Audiences should be adequately separated from performers.
  9. Senior homes should test employees and visitors before allowing entry
  10. Businesses whose primary purpose or use is facilitating short term contact between strangers should remain closed or be tightly regulated
  11. Retail businesses must offer public restrooms within 500 ft of the business
  12. (Have no employees using shared transportation to get to work. Consider integrated residence units.)

Public Infrastructure

  1. Essential services should include arts and craft stores to support at home manufacturing (masks?) and farming
  2. Cities should maintain public restrooms within half mile of any spot
  3. Public restrooms should provide a trashcan just outside the exit
  4. Public restrooms should provide a method to report and fix unsanitary conditions
  5. Highway rest stops should be kept open - at least one every thirty miles
  6. Commuter system ventilation should be reworked to generate a downward flow around the heads of individual commuters and be pathogen filtered before recirculation or discharge
  7. Commuter system filters should be analyzed for pathogens regularly
  8. Commuter system spaces should be partitioned into smaller spaces during high risk periods
  9. Change regulations to encourage home stockpiles of some broad spectrum antibiotics