Not collecting parcel from China

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I ordered some bits off amazon a few weeks ago. Just a hamster ball and slide for dd hamster.

I know they have come from China and are currently at the post office but dh at first stated I needed to wear gloves and then flash wipe all the contents before I get home. He has now decided I can't get them as he's worried about coronavirus.

I understand but I'm also very I've waited for ages for the bits. Dd has waited and I thinks it's a bit overkill

Aibu to just go get them anyway and flash wipe it to placate him?

I don't want to spend more money buying something I've already brought.

If you think about it, any virus that could actually survive long enough for you to catch it from products that have been shipped all that way would become pandemic pretty quickly anyway. Think about how many people and goods are transported in and out of China on a daily basis, whether or not you collect your package probably doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.

That package was in the postman’s bag with all the other letters, it’s been touched and other things touched with the same hands.

Nearly everything we have comes from China!

My friend who is intellegent and normally level headed is refusing to order her usual Chinese takeaway tonight

Surely you’d wash it anyway before use

If you ordered it ages ago, chances are that this was before the outbreak was as widespread and thus a low/non existent chance of contamination

"My friend who is intellegent and normally level headed is refusing to order her usual Chinese takeaway tonight"

😂😂😂

I didn't give it a second thought. I said to dh I'm going to pick up the parcel containing a hamster ball and wooden slide (more for the tiny hamster to chew) and he was concerned. Dh isn't usually like this but does 'panic' about things. Like brexit.

I just want to get my parcel lol

I'm not historical, dh is lol

A glib response I expect you are proud of yourself for. Except that just two days ago the number affected was around 450, the spread of the disease is faster than expected and your “one in a million” is already out of date as the numbers increase.*
But the order was placed (and likely shipped) weeks ago. Any increase in those infected occurring after the parcel has left China is irrelevant.