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.

@lubeybooby

The postman delivers essential documents. ffs
The postal service is paid to deliver advertising literature to every household too. That's not essential (and is unwanted by most) but they still put that through your letterbox, irrespective of whether there is other post for you. That's what I call not essential.

Even if I had the virus and didn't know it, if I'd washed my hands before posting the letter they still wouldn't be infected

Unless you didn’t wash them properly, of course. Which is also highly likely. And did you? Actually wash your hands before posting the letter and then not touch anything else before you posted it??

Again... UNNECESSARY RISK.

Actually wash your hands before posting the letter and then not touch anything else before you posted it??

Correct. Washed hands, DH opened front door for me, held letter in hands, deposited in post box.

And I am a former HCP so I know exactly how to wash my hands, thank you.

Ethelfleda, your posts are quite mad. What do you do normally, when there's no Corona to worry about?

@Ethelfleda TYPING IN CAPITALS DEFINITELY MAKES YOU SEEM LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT YOURE TALKING ABOUT.

Ah jeez. This just isn’t my audience. The ignorance here is utterly astounding. I am lost for words that people just don’t seem to be understanding how serious this is, or how a virus spreads, or that it is killing people.

I actually kind of wish I was like some of you. To be this ignorant must be absolute bliss in times like this. All smiley and vacant looking, bouncing about the place infecting people, all the while your brain is managing to process but one simple thought at a time as you guffaw and bumble your way through life without a care in the world.

Funnily enough coming as I do from a family of doctors, I understand perfectly Ethel. My BIL who is a senior A&E doctor is still getting takeaways and not sanitising his post. He is aware of what is to come but is pragmatic about it. I'd rather take his advice than yours.

And its massively insulting of you to say I dont have a care in the world. I have many many worries, not least the state my mental health is going to be in once all of this is done.

Pishposh, don't engage with Ethel. Her posts are completely loopy.

@Ethelfleda Your whole argument is based on the fact that we don't know what we're dealing with.

Do you know something we don't?

Can’t believe this is still going on. 500 posts over some brownies. Coronavirus is a wet dream come true for people who love to tell others off. (And I haven’t stepped out of the house for 2 weeks!)

Coronavirus is a wet dream come true for people who love to tell others off

😂

This is the comment of the day.

@39Ethelfleda I completely get you. I am in utter despair at the mass ignorance and denial. We have had lock down for a single week and already Facebook is full of people sharing pictures of bloody beaches 'to get away from all the negativity'. That should save us, then.

Ah jeez. This just isn’t my audience. The ignorance here is utterly astounding. I am lost for words that people just don’t seem to be understanding how serious this is, or how a virus spreads, or that it is killing people.

It seems we've collectively lost all sense of proportion. Thousands of people die every day in the UK, a hell of a lot of those deaths are varying degrees of preventable, and until Coronavirus came along, we accepted this as normal.

Coronavirus may possibly distort the month to month distribution of deaths this year but it will not even result in a statistically significant increase in the death rate.

The intervention, on the other hand, will shape the fortunes of a generation.

How the fuck does one anti-bac one's post?

And.... the NHS.

Before Coronavirus, if someone had asked us ^are you willing to spend an unknown quantity of time on lockdown to save .5% of the population, many of whom will die that year anyway, and spare the NHS a really horrible several months' - most people would have said um sorry no. Now anyone who objects is considered a traitor, a murderer, a non-person.

Seeing your friends or family or sitting on a bench in the park in the sunshine or walking along a beach or meeting friends at the pub or having people over for dinner or going to yoga class is a mere frippery rather than the essence of what makes life living.

'They' have always told people to wash their hands. That's not new. And doesn't equal any likelihood of catching COVID from a piece of paper.

MarginalGain 's is a rare voice of sanity on MN at the moment.

Ah well thanks @cantata, that's pretty astonishing considering how incredibly insane i feel at the moment.

I'm with you there, mate. @MarginalGain

How does one wash an envelope?

Me too, keep going MarginalGain, you voice of reason! I briefly was swept along by the panic but have put things in perspective in my head after looking at the stats.
Spain and italy have old popns, it's just getting the elderly and ill, same as flu, and we haven't been shutting down the country for flu.

Chances are the brownie receivers arent going to die or get seriously ill,in the highly unlikely event they get the virus from the brownie packaging of asymptomatic not-known-to-have-the-virus hand washers.

I HAVE to leave the house, for welfare reasons as I have horses however I go straight home,strip off clothes straight in wash and shower . I have dropped off shopping to my elderly parents on route a few times leaving outside their gate. I am pretty sure they dont wash every item that comes in .

There are certain times you have to do these things I,e for elderly to eat as they cannot get out so there is always that small risk , the risk to me
Personally for brownies for a friend is not essential and the advice is to stay home.
Xx

I'm team OP is a pisstaker I'm afraid. If you did that where I live, you'd get slapped with a 135 euro fine.

I can’t get past the ‘some people are washing their post delivered by the postman.’
Surely it’s a whole lot quicker and simpler to open your post, bin it unimportant, keep it if important and then wash your hands with hot water and soap??