AIBU to think we can use coronavirus as an excuse to ban leafleting

[MRex]

Inspired by hearing some idiot sneezing, coughing up and finally delightfully spitting phlegm while delivering unwanted leaflets to my house (which has a clear sign not to on the letterbox). Toddler DS is trained to put all such leaflets directly in the paper recycling bin, so I had to run for them before he'd touch them. I'm sure he just had a normal cold, but there must be at least a small infection risk when looking across the thousands of fliers this man is snotting over and the number of households with a vulnerable person, so coronavirus covid-19 would be an ideal excuse to ban people from what's effectively littering within other people's houses. If health and safety laws can be suspended over the number of children in schools, surely this can popped in as an additional health and safety law. I'd be prepared to make an exception for full free local papers / newspapers (say with a minimum non-advertising content percentage and number of pages) and election literature. What does everyone think, AIBU?

I think this is border line hysteria tbh there chances of the delivery man having coronavirus vs common cold are millions to one

Is it transmitted via paper?

You should put a sign on your door with:

Please no
Flu virus
Cold viruses
Norovirus
Coronavirus

What about the risk that your postman has coronovirus? Or the person at the sorting office? And I hope you don't get your milk delivered, or do your supermarket shopping on-line - there's no telling what bugs the delivery man may be incubating.

The postman or other delivery people are bringing useful things, the leafleters are bringing scraps of paper for the recycling bin. There's a difference.

@mrsbyers - I'm quite sure he had a cold because he was snotting everywhere and coronavirus is a dry cough. A common cold can still be troublesome for someone very vulnerable. (Though I'm more interested in stopping the leaflets.)

If he's sneezing, it's not coronavirus

But stop and think - do you quarantine all goods coming in to your house for several days? Because everything will have been handled at some point

I have a toddler, I'll catch pretty much everything going eventually. I also don't have anybody neutropenic or otherwise vulnerable in the house necessitating special care over shopping packages. It just would be nice to stop the leaflets and they seem like an unnecessary extra small risk for anyone who does have a vulnerable person in the house.

They might not seem so unnecessary to those who make their living by delivering them.