Survival Tips

How to survive this pandemic

Washing Hands

Washing your hands is a must everytime you return to your home or you go outside. Because the virus is most likely going to transmit from your hands since it touches many things. Here is a video of how to wash your hands properly. The black paint is acting like soap so you can see by using these methods (bottom right corner), where the soap can wash in your hands.

 
 

Songs

The British prime minister Boris Johnson had sang the happy birthday song while washing his hands so he knows how long he needs to wash his hands. There are many other songs about washing hands too

 
 

PPAP made a new version for washing hands. Pray for People And Peace.

A vietnam song dedicated to hand washing had gone viral, there was also a dance that went viral on tiktok

Staying at home

Staying at home may be very boring, so check out the blog for some things you could do at home and learn some new skills while in quarantine!

Alternative Toilet Paper

Toilet Paper Fight

The Toilet paper fights thats been going around in Australia had gone viral, it is about people who fight over toilet paper. Since the shelves are all empty and no toilet paper left, there are alternative things you could use instead of toilet paper

 

The Alternatives

 

Other Toilet-paper-like things

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Things such as napkins, tissue and paper towels, like the image above, cut it in half and boom

 

Unmatched Socks

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Everyone has those socks you can’t really wear anymore either you lost one of it or it is too old to wear. You can always use that as toilet paper.

Baby Wipes

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Babies can use it so you can probably use it as well. These things are clean too.

 

Paper

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Since Toilet Paper is made out of paper, then you can use paper too. You can look for some old newspaper or magazines as alternatives

Pads

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pads are originally used as sanitary napkin so is is okay to use it as toilet paper.

 

Water

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Why even use toilet paper when you can just wash it off? You can get a bidet to wash it off right after wards or just go take a short shower.

The Alternatives (Not Serious)

 

Leaves

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Leaves like banana leaves are one of the most flexible leaves out there, perfect. Just tear each leaf apart to get a reasonable size for cleaning.

 

Rock

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Find a smooth, flat rock. This way was very popular in ancient societies. Using the “scrape method” and washing it away before reusing

Corn Husk and Corn cob

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Corn husks and Corn cobs were actually the earliest toilet paper used. It is soft enough for toilet paper use and they don’t spoil quickly

 

Sponge

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You can use a sponge, a thing called xylospongium is a sponge on a stick where ancient people had used by ancient romans

Receipt

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Just grab your wallet and take out those things you don’t need. You can use receipt if you are really desperate since it is paper made.

 

Your Hand

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As long as no debris gets under your nails, hands are pretty easy to clean. Just don’t touch anything until you reach the nearest sink