GIFTS with EXTENSIVE PROTECTION from COVID Exposures
None of us want to purchase a gift for our loved ones if there’s a risk it’s contaminated with Covid19 viruses! Harriet & I have gone ‘all out’ to protect US, our guaranteed authentic Native American jewelry & art, and YOU from Covid exposures. HERE’S WHAT & HOW we’ve done that. [ Ask yourself: have other sellers taken similar precautions? ]
· No ‘employee’ has been exposed to Covid-19 or been infected with it! We’re a family owned, home-based business with 2 ‘employees’ [ha,ha]—Terry and Harriet! We have NOT been exposed to or infected by Covid. That’s because over the years we became expert practitioners of avoidance of virus exposures during each year’s flu season. This was necessary due to Terry’s impaired immune and respiratory systems—acquiring a virus would be life-threatening to him. [BTW: don’t worry—he does NOT have any infectious conditions; rather, his immune and respiratory systems were impaired by occupational toxic exposures years ago.] ‘Social-distancing’, disinfecting products and surfaces while wearing PPE including disposable nitrile gloves and OSHA/NIOSH certified N95 & P100 filter masks, HEPA air filtration—ALL are ‘old hat’ in our lives. During annual virus seasons we have a strict ‘home-isolation’ policy—no visitors are allowed inside any part of our house so they don’t ‘shed’ viruses inside our home airspaces. So when Covid19 arrived in December, we were already practicing extensive virus-avoidance procedures before any state or federal government Covid19 policies or CDC guidance!
· In fact, our virus-avoidance practices exceed the CDC/Trump Covid Task Force guidance. That’s because we’ve always educated ourselves on virus transmission medical research studies and National Academy of Sciences et al studies! We KNOW the FACTS on virus viability on surfaces, proper PPE, & anti-virus practices.
· ALL of our contemporary jewelry and art inventory was acquired in 2019—prior to the Covid outbreak— from the artists or their preferred wholesaler . So there was NO risk that inventory had infectious viruses when we obtained it in 2019. Since then, we have NOT purchased new inventory to AVOID RISK of virus contamination/exposure from new inventory. ALL of our antique Native American art items [jewelry, pottery, Navajo weaving] were acquired prior to 2019, and has remained in our Covid-protected home spaces.
· After the December Covid-19 outbreak was reported, we implemented a rigorous disinfection process for ALL items delivered to our home. Our disinfection process is based on relevant scientific research studies of effective disinfectants for viruses. Viruses can remain viable and infectious from hours to days on various surfaces. So we recognized the possibility of Covid-19 transmission via mail and other delivered items including groceries. No delivered item has been brought into any part of our home without first being safely disinfected outside the home. That ongoing disinfection process has minimized the chance of virus exposure/contamination of us or our home spaces from mail or other delivered items that may have been processed or handled by infected people. [Research tells us a person can be non-symptomatic and infectious from 5-14 days before they even have symptoms; some don’t even know they have the virus.]
· NONE of our contemporary jewelry or Yei art has been pre-owned so you don’t need to worry that it was handled or worn by a Covid-infected person prior to your purchase. Our antique Native American items were all acquired prior to Covid and have NOT been outside our Covid-safe home because we sell those items with the same policy of NO returns and no exchanges to prevent contamination of the items with chemicals, smoke, tobacco, fragrance or viruses.
· YOU are the 1st & only owner of contemporary jewelry and art you buy from us. Before Covid, to protect YOUR health, we had a NO Returns/no exchanges policy for both our antique and contemporary Native American jewelry & art. So NONE of our inventory has been outside of our Covid-protected home. Obviously, our antique Native American art items were pre-owned, but we acquired them prior to 2019 and prior to Covid. [See our website ‘no return’ policy].
· Our Native American art inventory is stored and packed for shipment in our home spaces fully protected from Covid contamination. They are stored and packed only by us entirely in our home spaces, which have been protected from Covid19 infection by the processes summarized above.
· Our art packing materials are virus-free, mold-free, fragrance-free, chemical-free while in our home. ALL our packaging materials are USA-made, were purchased well before the Covid-19 outbreak in China, and have remained in our protected storage area inside our home. Our home is maintained mold-free, fragrance-free and chemical-free to protect Terry’s health. We usually provide free cotton jewelry bags with each purchase. Those are made in Pakistan, but we acquired them in 2019 prior to the Covid outbreak, so they also have been protected from Covid exposure while stored in our Covid-free home.
You can see we have taken more protective measures than any state or federal government agency recommended. We do that so we, you and your loved ones can thoroughly enjoy our beautiful, guaranteed-authentic Native American arts without worry of whether it was Covid-contaminated in our possession.
Could our FREE Priority Mail delivery process expose you to Covid virus? Possibly, but NO more than any other mail or packages delivered to you! As noted above, research tells us that viruses can remain viable on various surfaces including paper products from hours to days depending on various factors. So we all face the possibility of being exposed to viruses on the exterior surfaces of mail or ship boxes IF processed or delivered by a Covid-infected person or delivery vehicle. If that possibility concerns you, we urge you to use disinfection procedures similar to what we use, and disinfect the entire exterior surfaces of the Priority Mail box before you bring the contents into your living spaces and open the box. For mail and products delivered to our home, we also disinfect box contents in case they were processed by an infected person. However, in the case of purchasing from us, you now know that the art & packing materials inside the box have been extensively protected from Covid exposure as explained above. IF you don’t have your own delivery disinfection process and would like more information on our disinfection process for mail and packages delivered to us, or have other questions, please contact us! We want you to be as worry-free as possible, so you can enjoy this awesome Native American art.
Terry@SWNativeOriginals.com 202-599-5768 or 703-801-2565
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