Anything is better than nothing imho as long as we all remember to not touch our face and keep washing those hands.
I went food shopping in an actual supermarket yesterday after over a week break. It wasn’t a pleasant experience because some people were getting too close, mostly women and they were in their own little world with no sense of safety whatsoever.
First rule, I never use my phone when out of the house for phone calls because it would touch my face. I do use it for messages and pictures because, as it was the case yesterday, I was picking a few bits for neighbours as well so needed some communication.
I haven’t used the car in at least 3 days so it probably didn’t have any active viruses in it. I left the house with hair tied up and wearing a mask which I didn’t remove or touch until I got back home. It’s not even a proper mask (dIY thingy but it’s better than nothing and I was hoping it would keep people at a distance, which it didn’t actually).
I put disposable gloves on before leaving the car. Luckily they worked with the phone. Also wore a pair of glasses (useless as they steamed up at times and didn’t want to remove them and faff about with touching my face). I just got on with it the best I could. Queued up to be allowed in the shop, sprayed the trolley handle with disinfectant, got on with shopping, lots of things missing from shelves but there was enough to buy what I needed and we certainly won’t be starving or become malnourished, the shopping itself was absolutely fine. Some people were annoying for not following the minimum distance. All shopping went in my normal bags.
Left the shop, unlocked car, put shopping in the boot, returned trolley, got in the car, removed gloves inside out,, realised I didn’t think to bring a spare bag or anything to put them in so left them on the floor. Sanitised car keys and hands, drove home with partially steamed up glasses - how do people with glasses manage to wear masks I don’t know, they must have secret.
Got home, distributed neighbours’ shopping left outside their doors, put my bags by the door outside the house, took shoes off in the garage and left them there for an undetermined amount of time, took mask off left in the garage on a hook (don’t know what to do with it, I haven’t got another one, maybe I can reuse it in a weeks time - fuck knows).
Open door with the corner of my coat, washed hands, put coat in washing machine, washed hands, face and ears (they recommend it in some countries along with washing nose but I have no idea how to do that) and glasses with soap and water. Won’t use glasses again, or not with a mask anyway. Maybe skying goggle or safety goggles.
Proceeded to disinfect items one by one as much as I could and put on the counter. Wash hands, put stuff away. Wash hands, disinfect all handles which I’ve been touching.
I didn’t bother with potatoes, onions bags because I’ll be using them to cook with so will be washing hands when handling them when the time comes.
Disinfect phone and keys which were left outside by the door. Wash hands again. Message neighbours re their shopping, realise I touched receipt which was touched by sales assistant and me with gloves. Put receipt in bin, wash hands, disinfect phone and bin lid. Swear a few times. Unlock car, go to put empty bags in the car (won’t be touching them for a while, hopefully no active viruses by then). Picked up used gloves from the car with a small plastic bag, put in the bin.
Back in the house, wash hands and lock the car.
Notice DH left dog lead on the side on kitchen counter. Put lead away in dog drawer, wash hands, disinfect drawer handle and kitchen counter.
Realise at this rate we’ll run out of every cleaning stuff possible. Make a bottle of dishwashing liquid solution, go to a Boots.com to try and order rubbing alcohol or some shit like that. I am number 253672 in the queue. Go to Amazon, only overpriced dubious looking items available of this type. Do a general google and decide I can’t justify £300 odd on some hospital grade disinfectant but make mental calculation that I can buy it but would it be immoral. Swear out loud, tell DH everything’s gone wrong and go to have a nap. Eventually doze off.
DD charges right in to tell me in a very loud voice someone ‘famous’ known only to her and 6 other people on the planed has waved back or said hello on Instagram, excited dog on her tail jumps on the bed, she jumps on after him and I’m thinking nobody has washed the dog’s paws and DD’s phone has not been disinfected today, and what if my hair collected viruses and now they are on my pillow. I hug both, no nap, and feel embarrassed and stupid for over reacting like this but I can’t help it.