Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Universal Design and Co-housing

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

Why do dishes need to be sterilized?

-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California
tamgoddess [at] attbi.com

> 
> Most just have no information I've found.
> 
> The same is true of being sure that the dishes in the kitchen are sterilized
> (not hand washed unless you rinse with Clorox) and that good filters are
> used and changed often on the air circulation systems picking up at least
> some of the mold and germs.
> 
> Winter before last we had one person in chemo and two pregnant women (one
> with twins), at least one person with a compromised immune system for other
> reasons, and several residents who travel the world bringing back new
> strains of flu. In recreating the old-fashioned communities where people
> live more closely together, we were also at risk of spreading germs and
> serious diseases the same way they were spread in the past in settlement
> houses and other living situations with multiple boarders and servants
> coming and going.
> 
> We have become so used to dishwashers and living in nuclear families that we
> forget that SARS is not only not the first epidemic but also one of the
> smallest. Children in settlement houses were sick not just because they
> lacked food, they also lacked good air and modern hygiene.
> 
> Sharon
> -- 
> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
> 
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