I didn't do anything wrong....did I?

[Funkyslippers]

DD desperate to see her friend who lives a few streets away. She made brownies and we dropped them on her doorstep, went back onto the pavement around 12 feet away, DD called her and she came to the door, took the brownies and said thank you.

They then call each other while we're walking home (social distancing all the way but not many people around) and her older sister shouts in the background "her mum let her do that? That was stupid!!!" meaning we shouldn't have brough the brownies round to her house. I couldn't see anything wrong with it. I mean, the postman delivers mail to houses each day. Am I missing something? Or is she worried about eating contaminated food - we washed our hands thoroughly during the process.

Spot on Chloe (and not just cause you gave me a shout out! 😊)

(I was grinning at the gin thing there btw)

Frat

I think you can keep it but not before soaking it in bleach for 72 hours 😉

@fratercula I wouldn’t eat it.

I don't know what the present is but guessing Lego. I shall certainly deter DS from eating it...

What the flying fandango do you not understand about staying at home?

What a lovely gift, cakes potentially strewn with virus you don’t know you are carrying. All the time while you are walking down the street potentially shedding virus hither and thither.

It’’s not nice, It’s not cute. It’s potentially life threatening.

People like you are exactly the reason the right to exercise will be withdrawn within days. Seriously.

And she's allowed to

you are walking down the street potentially shedding virus hither and thither.

There's NO problem with this. Virus can only be transmitted via close contact (less than 2ft) of 15 minutes that involves touching your face - mouth, eyes, nose.

That's the science. It doesn't just hang there like a malevolent cloud, waiting for someone to walk into it.

Please, can't people try reading some facts about viral transmission?

chloechloe well said.
Imo the hysterical people suggesting not even leaving your house for weeks/months are just as idiotic as the crowd of morons who were up Snowdon at the weekend.

There are potentially millions of bacteria/virus on a pinprick of skin. If it's not essential. We've had a group of 20-ish lads from local flats congregated on the lawn outside our block since noon, getting pissed and shouting. Then they'll dissipate to their respective homes spilling germs aplenty.

Why do people assume they are the exception.

Simply

That's clearly not ok, and clearly a risk. So entirely different to this situation.

And you are right, the situation you describe is what will definitely cause significant issues in relation to controlling Covid.

@FraterculaArctica Hazmat suit. Explode parcel.

Otherwise you will wreck the NHS and kill your family. More sensibly, the virus can't survive on a parcel until Monday. Even the most cautious experts couldn't justify leaving the parcel untouched for a few days, and then allowing it to cause the smile it was intended to cause.

@chloechloe Good point, well made.

Frat I suggest you should pick up the present with a pair of BBQ tongs and then wash it in the washing machine. Then burn the washing machine.

Or leave it on the doorstep for 24 hours in view of the fact the virus can survive on cardboard (so paper too???) for that long.

Please, can't people try reading some facts about viral transmission

Why @EarringsandLipstick? Why do you think we need facts when we can get by perfectly well on unfounded tantrums and bossing people around using terrifying home baked brownies as ammo?

Those brownies are deadly, I tell you. DEADLY.

It wasn't essential and you know it so you even asking this question means you know you did wrong.

Just Stay At Home.

Eckhart 😂😂😂

FraterculaArctica, you put it somewhere safe, wash your hands afterwards and open it after 24 hours, which is when we know the virus has died off.

When we make food our hygiene rules have to be different than for warehouses. Likewise we test ingredients for food a lot more than we do outer wrappings because what we eat has to be safe.

In case anyone is struggling.

My daughter waved to her friend through the window as we walked past their house on our walk - I assume that is allowed. Technically waving to a friend is not essential and doesnt constitute exercise.

threads like this doesn't show people aren't following rules, it's shows how utterly fucking hysterical people have become!

You are aware we have the 5th highest percentile death rate to CV19, behind Italy, China, Spain and France, yes? If preventing possible cases and deaths from this virus isn't worth being on-edge about then I don't know what is.

Frat, put them in a 90 degree wash and eat them afterwards.

Why the hysteria on here? I have been on MN for almost 20 years, and this is the most depressingly batshit it has ever been.

RhymingRabbit, KEEP YOUR FUCKING WAVES AT HOME, I tell you. You're going to KILL SOMEONE.

YABVVVU

If you want to make brownies keep them in your own household.

The rules are not hard to understand, the reasons they are there are not hard to understand but you chose to break them because you obviously think you and your dd are some kind of special, more special than anyone else.

You are. A special kind of shallow, selfish and stupid.

Another nice, kind post there, WeAllHaveWings. This virus really is bringing out the best in everyone isn't it?

wings

You are. A special kind of shallow, selfish and stupid.

Could you not have made your point without the nastiness? No need at all.

@WeAllHaveWings Which rule did OP break?

Earring.

No.

The message is clear follow the rules to save lives. Anyone who isn't following it because they think are 'special' or exempt deserve a robust response.

That's not a robust response Wings, it's just horribleness.

And she did nothing wrong, in any event.

Take a good look at yourself (that's my robust response to you)