Someone here, who knows how, needs to create some warning signs we can print out, laminate, or enlarge and reproduce on foamcore sign board, etc.
There are billions of For Sale or Yard Sale signs EVERYwhere—we need just as many “Quarantine” (sp?), “Infection-Do Not Enter”, or “We Need Medical Help” signs for our homes with a white strip on bottom where we can write our phone numbers so we can put them on our front doors & neighbors or first responders will have a clue what’s going on with us inside our homes. Or so that it might slow down intruders, maybe.
I want to see a sign in every cutesy, preppy or discount retail store, every medical office, every bank & ATM, every hardware store, every business office, every food vending sales machine, every restaurant, every grocery store, EVERY business window in the world, that says that they practice Pan Flu Safety Measures and I want ‘em big enough that I can see them as I drive thru the parking lot, so I’ll know whether to stop or not.
I want a symbol as recognizable as the red circle with a slash line thru it and will become as “prestigeous” as the BBB sign is in the USA - it should maybe be PPP unless that already stands for something else. I think business ones should have a small logo of the Preparedness Ribbon in a corner & large print wording Pandemic Precautions Practiced (PPP), simple, short, clear.
Maybe have a short checklist of white spaces like the phone number space I mentioned earlier, where 3 things they practice like social distancing, use masks, use Clorox or offer free surgical masks (I know, but better than nothing) or laytex gloves or whatever are PREPRINTED so it’s a consistent, readable-from-a-distance size and one or two spaces where they can write in other efforts they are making. And a space designated for their phone number — for USA 9 LARGE white blocks, one for each number of their phone number (to help ensure they’ll write in large block numbers) so I can call from outside to ask more questions about what precautions they take or to find out what they have in stock.
And there needs to be a simple Instructions/Suggestions sheet that can be printed on the back telling them to write in large block letters & numbers, use large permanent marker, suggest more things they can do, etc.
There’s stuff EVERY business CAN do to make effort….I want my spending power to go to them, above someone who’s not interested at all in making effort, leaving it totally up to me to protect myself (I know it ultimately IS up to me, but I want to know they’re taking care of THEMSELVES too).
What so you think? Anyone able to and interested in designing some signs?
(I still think it would help to know what your locals, police, nat’l guard, military plan to do; wouldn’t want to get put on some boxcar to somewhere, from having the wrong sign up when they were actually checking house-to-house…)
labsafety.com has signs
Caution; No Pedestrian Traffic, Caution; Face Shield Area, Caution: Personal Protective Equipment Required Beyond This Point, and, lots of “bilingual” signs…
Have you talked to the local Chamber of Commerce about pandemic preparednesss yet?
What does your local pandemic/emergency committee plan to do, to find out who needs help, or, how to signal quarantine?
Here’s one from a quick google search. Probably the best would be one like this, from your own state or municipality…much more credible.
Sooo sorry! i don’t know why it doesn’t link exctly, but if you type in “quarantine sign” in the search bar at the top, it will be the first item.
http://www.seton.net.au/search.cfm
has a number of quarantine signs
Nope you’re missing the point…not generic, specific. PPP on them. I apparently wasn’t clear….I’ll try again later somehow.
Sort of like the Underwriters Lab label, you can be assured standards have been met, guidelines are followed, and measures are in place for your protection.
Similar idea behind the Board of Health restaurant inspection reports posted at the cash register.
Yep! Except it would all have to be voluntary-not gov’t run at all. If there were pandemic specific signs already out there, I’d just buy reasonably priced ones off ebay but there aren’t any. I just thought so many people got behind the ribbon thing, someone might see the benefits of this as a helpful visual. Guess I’m on my own with this one.
If “every cutesy, preppy or discount retail store, every medical office, every bank & ATM, every hardware store, every business office, every food vending sales machine, every restaurant, every grocery store, EVERY business” had been got shown the Ten things the WHO thought “you” needed to know about pandemic influenza, and, notified when the US pandemicflu.gov site went up back in Oct 2005 and, then seen the business planning checklists, and, had enough sense to monitor the H5N1 news and cfr rather than trust their lives to politicians and bureaucrats, your idea might have some traction.
Most individuals, businesses and chamber of commerces are not going to do anything to prepare themselves, nor their employees and their families, nor find supply chain solutions, until they are sure pandemic is occurring, and then, their options are severly narrowed…
Officials didn’t want the public “to panic” so, they aren’t going to be able to tell them to prepare.
See who’s around to react and what gets cobbled together afterwards, I guess.