JANI WITTAKER
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I'll go the (Social) Distance for You...

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Update - July 2020

We have now entered Phase 3, and I am still striving to abide by safest practice,
​within the greater freedom to move more fluently within our communities.
I am still maintaining a very tight bubble, 
consistently mindful to come to my next position with a covid-free standard of Best Practice

Caring in the Time of Covid

Because I knew I would be seeking a Senior Care position,
I have taken extreme care since the initial lock down.

I am fully able, prepared and
well-practised to step forward
into a live-in care position ​with
rigorous safety in mind.

To this end,
during phase 1 of the shut-in I have been extremely vigilant in 
ensuring that I practice the highest level of protection & disinfecting regimes.
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As we are emerging into Phase 2,
I am maintaining the same level of vigilance
​ensuring that I am able to come
​into a new household
with a negative test,
​and with the highest standards of
Covid-prevention care.

Masks & Gloves

I practice minimal combined errands (once-a-week shopping), and do maximum wash down after every outing.
Luckily,
I have a cache of gloves and masks that 
 I am able to wear whenever I enter into any kind of public space.
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I am the Sith Lord of Covid-Shopping

Go Digital

All my interactions,
apart from those I live with, are in the digital realm.
How fortunate that my previous work was already in an international habit of Zoom meetings,
so the lock-down has not been a huge stretch for me.
 I chose to 'double my bubble' with
​once-a-week visits with my 83 year old mother,
knowing I have been careful enough to
​comfortably share space with her.
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The Grocery Wash-Down

I will not lie.
It is tedious.
Every time that
I come in from the grocery store,
I bleach down every item
coming into the house.
I wash down every item of produce.
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The grocery bags get put into the garage to de-covid-ify,
and the floor where the bags lay gets washed down with bleach.
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I wash down the car,
the household door handles, 
​anywhere that has been in connection to my foray into the outside world.
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Excessive?
Hell yes.

But worth it.

I have consistently practiced, since March 15th,
the best possible levels of safety that I can muster.

Everything I practice, and continue to hold as standard, is in preparation to care for Elders as if they are my own.
And, of course, I will adapt
up or down
according to the needs/vulnerability
​of whomever I care for.
Now that we have entered Phase 3,
I have stopped doing the excessive levels of wash down and bleaching.
But...
I continue to be very vigilant about keeping 2 meters
and wearing a mask
and rigorously using hand sanitiser

Batch Cooking

I am an accomplished cook,
able to plan extended menus,
batch cooking so that every dish also becomes a meal in the freezer.
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I am able to very effectively plan a single weekly shop,
​to keep the fridge stocked, and to lay high quality, nutritional meals on the table 3 times daily.

I have always described myself as a mother-who-works,
​not as a working mother.
​Providing nutritious delicious meals for my family has instilled
a life-long habit of
​cooking once, eating twice,
​and one for the freezer.
As my family say -
'Jani is pathologically incapable of cooking for any less than 6 people'.

6 feet = 2 meters

It's not rocket science!
Am I the only one to notice
that since the let-up
​people seem to have really laxed in keeping their distance?
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As ever, in this covid-world, I am doing my very best to maintain the strictures
that mean 
our social distancing
​WILL inhibit the spread.
And within my serious intent to be a good covid citizen,
it is also important to enjoy the ridiculousness...
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* previously known by my married name: Jani White

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