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So I have a moral dilemma. I know what I should do is different than what I want to do. I tested positive for Covid last Tuesday with a home antigen test, and then via PCR on Thursday, and again today via another home antigen test. The only symptom I have at this point is the occasional cough. I'm vaccinated and boosted.

I've been staying home except to get the PCR and do a drop off vet appointment and doorside pickup of some work stuff. I got groceries delivered today.

Here's my dilemma. I'm running out of clean clothes and it's been cool, damp, and overcast. I washed some underwear by hand and they were still damp two days later; I ironed them dry.

I know I should stay home, but I want to do a laundry run. I'll be cleared to return to work Friday whether or not I'm still testing positive. I wear a mask anywhere indoors that's not my house.

I don't want to pass covid on to anyone else and I walked twelve miles to get tested rather than expose other public transit riders or a rideshare driver. But I don't want to go back to work in dirty or damp mildewy clothes.

Should I double mask and walk to the laundromat mid day tomorrow and hope it's empty, or just suck it up and hand wash stuff until Saturday after work?

I've dried stuff with a hairdyer when deseperate. Not very energy efficient, but it works.

*desperate
Possibly there's a laundry drop off and pickup service in your area if you have the cash.

ATRT--I blew out a circuit last time I plugged in a hair dryer. I'll wash a couple of tops and bras and iron the tops dry.

It's supposed to be sunny Wednesday; hopefully I can hang some stuff out to dry then.

I think it would be less risky to take my own stuff to the laundromat over paying someone to handle clothes I soaked with fever sweat.

Mask up, check peak times (if you google the place, a lot of times it will show when it's most often busy and empty right there on the page), go when it's empty, social distance (sit in your car or hang around outside if possible while things are cycling). Use the big 4 or 6 loader washer (if they have one) to wash as much as possible in one load. Alternately, take three days worth of outfits/undies/whatever and just do one load so you can get in and out quick, and do more laundry in a few days.

Sanitize, sanitize, sanitize (like- bring hand sanitizer and wipes to wipe stuff down after).

Skedaddle soon.

Honestly, I think you'll be okay. You're most likely no longer contagious, and if you double mask and sanitize, there's a very slim chance of passing it on. I mean, you'd have to like cough right on someone at this point, and nobody wants to get that close to anybody at the public laundry.

Good luck!

AYRT--I don't drive so I'd just be hauling my week's worth of clothes, and I never hang out waiting for things to finish washing or drying.

But I think I'll stick to hand washing since it's supposed to be sunny Wednesday and Thursday. If it ends up staying overcast I'll rethink things though.

Yeah, if you have access to the sun for the day, that would be great.
Me, I can't imagine hand-washing things like my big sweatshirts I wear - i would never get all the soap out and couldn't wring it out enough to dry in a day, either. I've done my time in laundromat hell, though - hope you get out of it soon, Anon!

This is what I was thinking. If you leave the building while waiting for cycles to run, you will really minimize any possible spread, especially if it's not busy when you do have to go in.

Yup, this is what I'd do. Honestly, at this point it feels like senseless martyrdom to make your life this hard for such a small chance of passing it on. In the early days I would've said hell no, stay home. But we're 2+ years in, three vaccination shots in, and like half the population isn't even trying at all anymore. I don't see the point in putting yourself out SO much for such a minor risk at this point in the game.

Same, honestly. I still sanitize my hands and mask in stores, etc., but I'm not at the level of 2020 anymore.

Can you get a friend to do the laundry run for you? Co-worker?

I think I'll just stick with hand washing. I know people who would do it if I asked, but none of them have caught covid yet and my clothes are basically hazardous waste rn.

Okay. Take care of yourself, yeah?

Since it seems like you're not 100% sure about the weather, do you ever line dry inside? I grew up in an apartment building and there we did not have an outside line -- as a result we'd string a clothes line through the apt -- from the door through the hall into the kitchen, and along the sides of the kitchen to the bathroom. Things always got dry -- winter, spring, summer, fall -- toasty or rainy. If you do it Wednesday they should be dry by Saturday.

Nowadays I've purchased one of those clothing racks and I just hang stuff up to dry on it instead of stringing lines across the house.

Good luck!

AYRT--I've been hanging stuff inside since it's marginally warmer and drier than outside. I don't have a heater or working stove so stuff is slow to dry, but it's about 60 degrees at the coolest so it's not so bad. And it's supposed to be sunny by Wednesday.

Hopefully by winter I'll have a new washer and dryer or at least the wood stove chimney cleaned.

I don't know what your other resources are, but if you stick a candle (even a tea-light) under a terra-cotta flowerpot you can get a basic stove - might help if you end up drying your clothes inside.

I'm in Florida with a ton of humidity and my clothes dry fine inside. I just put shirts and T-shirts on hangers and stuff and hang jeans up by the ankles on clip hangers. It never takes more than a day for things to dry?

Virginia here and I always just hang my stuff up to dry inside. I've never had a problem with it and like you said, it takes a day at most, and that's for stuff like jeans. T-shirts and underwear and that kind of thing dries in a few hours.

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