Disinfecting supermarket shopping ?

[Sue3111]

After the recent newspaper article on Washing your weekly shopping - advising that theres no need to continue disinfecting shopping as the virus is airborne. Are people still going to clean items brought from supermarkets?

@Mrsjayy

I seem to have opened a can of worms

Let me just wipe that can down.

I have never done this and I never will. Ridiculous overkill.

Nor have I ever quarantined or disinfected post or other deliveries. What utter bollocks!

I'm clinically vulnerable but wasn't on the original shielding list. I never got told to shield at all although I did get a letter about three weeks ago telling me that shielding was now coming to an end so I could stop! Erm, I never started!!

I have a friend who has been doing this. Her son and gf have been quarantining post for three days and disinfecting everything . They haven’t seen another person for a year and never go out. They are 30 and have no health issues. I think that’s seriously weird behaviour.

I did it about three times, it took about an hour each time and was a huge palava. I realised that firstly the risk was absolutely minuscule even at the height of the pandemic, secondly it was an hour of my life each week that I wouldn't get back, thirdly that it was going to have a negative effect on my mental health if I carried on and fourthly that I didn't want my DCs thinking this was normal or necessary. So we stopped again.

I think I need to make my parents aware that this is officially not recommended any more!

They've been quarantining their post and all shopping for 3 days (bar fridge stuff) and then disinfecting it all too, the scrubbing their hands. They've been doing this for a year now and I have pointed out that covid is airborne, not a single case has ever been found to originate from fomites so it's really not needed. They persist "just to be safe." But then they are still timing their daily walk round the village so they get back within an hour, despite this never being official advice! I've told them and told them but they are obviously very anxious about covid and have lost all ability to assess risk as a result. They're both fully vaccinated now, ffs! They seem to think I am being very lax about my own safety if I dare leave the house or not wipe things with bleach, it's bizarre.

I've been becoming more lax of late and decided that when the shopping arrives tomorrow I will not disinfect it.

@spiderlight

I'm erring towards stopping now, although it's probably saved me a fair bit of money over the past year as I've stood in the supermarket looking at things and thinking 'Do I want this enough to wash it?'

I do that with my online basket and it probably has saved me money. I have thought about stopping but will wait until everyone in the hone has been vaccinated and reassess. Used to it now, it’s just routine,

Life is way too short for anything like this.

I have never bothered, even when DP started chemo I could see no point in disinfecting the shopping. I grew up in a household where even salad was soaked in Milton before we were allowed to eat it, we were never allowed to eat penny sweets (the unwrapped stuff like foam bananas and pink shrimps) and we were thoroughly washed in dettol before we were allowed to eat so much as a sandwich on a picnic. To me, disinfecting food is the way madness lays.

I've washed shopping from the start. Dh still got covid. But im paranoid. If i could walk round in a hasmat suit i would, quite happily.

I started to do it once then quickly decided that I'd rather starve to death than have to go through that every week. Never did it since.

Never did this anyway! And haven't they more or less concluded that famine transmission is not how Covid transmits anyway, its route is aerosol ?

Fomite not famine, damn autocorrect!

I did this at the start of the pandemic. Then realised that it was probably a good couple of days before I used the shopping anyway so just left it after that.