Wearing disposable gloves to supermarket

[Balhammom]

Curious to know if I’m being OTT or if others are doing this too?

My logic is that I’m going to be handling lots of dirty surfaces that others have also touched. I don’t want to transfer these to my car. Hence, I wear gloves to do my shop and pack, but remove them before getting back into my car. I also immediately disinfect my shopping and (eg) bank card once I get home.

dollface do you really wash your COAT every time you come back to the house?! dread to think what it will end up ooking like very soon

drove home with partially steamed up glasses

You’re lucky you didn’t hit anyone. What a ludicrous fandango.

Gloves are not enough! Grocery stores will be our downfall. Get your items for at LEAST one month, and STAY HOME!

Be Safe~

LittleBearPad this was the first time I did it and I used alcohol on a j-cloth. My old alcohol bottle will finish this week so will rely exclusively on soapy water and bleach solution afterwards.
I wiped pretty much everything packaged which will be touched to be eaten without cooking and likely to be touched within 3 days like chocolate, bread bag, cheese packet, milk bottle, jam jar, etc.
Multipacks got emptied without touching the contents, eggs won’t be touched for 3 days so did nothing.
Rice, potatoes etc I didn’t bother as I’ll be washing hands when cooking.
I didn’t clean things which won’t be handled for at least 3 days like a new jar of coffee.

So the rice and potatoes that aren’t sanitiser but which you’ve put in your cupboards with the stuff you’ve sanitised aren’t a problem? Don’t you think this may be a bit of an overreaction?

No I don't bother with gloves because no matter what point you take them off it won't help. Before you touch your keys? Then you still gotta unload shopping bags and then touch the boot and return trolley. After you've unloaded? Well then you've already touched your keys with dirty glove. Which you will then touch with bare hands when you turn the car on. After you get in the car? You've then touched the door handles and goodness knows what else. So then you sanitize your hands ... And again you touch your keys that you gloves hand touched earlier. And your purse which you touched in the shop when you paid.

No I'm not cleaning bags and shopping either, or leaving food in the car for 3-5 days, we bought it because we need to eat it. We don't eat the packaging. I wash my hands when I get home but I'll have touched the outside and inside of the front door, he bathroom door and taps... I've never disinfected a door handle in my life I can't imagine doing so unless one of us actually gets sick I suppose.
You really can take things to the very extreme.

No I don’t because I have cupboards for cooking ingredients and cupboards for stuff we eat as it is (bread, nuts, tea, coffee, jam etc).
A contaminated packet touching another contaminated packet does not transmit the virus from packet to packet.
Someone in the house opening a packet of biscuits I’ve just brought home might be at some risk from picking something up.
Obviously the glasses weren’t steamed up as such that I couldn’t see to drive. They were temporary partially steamed up until the steam evaporated which was very quick, in the shop it was a different story though.
You really don’t need to pick on every detail ad litteram you know.

If you add the details people will pick up on them.

@Branster drove home with partially steamed up glasses - how do people with glasses manage to wear masks I don’t know, they must have secret.

Your mask needs to be a lot tighter. If it is a behind the ears, attach an elastic to the ear loops and use it to wear the mask with a band going around your head. I have added a strap to my Cambridge mask.

I just sanitize my hands after getting in the car, and when I get home I wash them thoroughly (as well as my car keys and bank card).

Thanks, I didn’t know. There an adjustable thingy on one of the straps at the back. Never mind, hopefully won’t need to do this for a while and by then we’ll no doubt have different parameters.
Advice in other countries is much more specific than here.

I'm not sure whether to wear gloves or not.
If I take my reusable bags out of the car, put them in my shopping trolley, then put gloves on, everything I touch in the store, all of the items I pick up, which will go into my bags at the checkout, could potentially have the virus on them.
I am then meant to throw my gloves away before getting in my car, all of which is great until I go to pick up my bags and take my items out of my bags?
Surely I'm touching all those items which potentially have the virus on then, in my kitchen arent I?
Or am I to put another pair of gloves on when I get home and somehow without touching my items, wash them before putting them away?

Whenever I remove mine, I have very deep marks on my face. If it it not tight , it doesn't;t do the job. That's why surgical masks are useless.

Get your items for at LEAST one month, and STAY HOME!

How does that work when supermarkets limit the number of items you can buy? No supermarket will allow you to buy a month’s worth of food.

Wtf is the point of gloves???

If you put your infected hand in your mouth possibly infected

If you put your gloves fingers in your mouth ... possibly infected 🤷‍♀️

If you're going to be that daft maybe you should stay inside, Ispywithmycynicaleye

There is no evidence whatsoever that the virus can be transmitted via groceries, so unless you are desperate to waste disinfectant you might as well stop it. There might be some justification if your food is in plastic containers, but there is no need to disinfect anything else. If you are disinfecting unwrapped fruit and vegetables, unless you really want a nasty stomach upset, I suggest you stop this immediately.

How are you cleaning your steering wheels/cars?

Why are people washing shopping? I thought it wasn't spread by food? Dispose of packaging, wash hands before preparing food or eating, and after putting shopping away.

There is evidence that it can be transmitted through packaging from groceries though.
Yes it would be wasteful and possibly unnecessary to disinfect everything but most items come in packaging. I don’t have enough containers to move things into. Items like ham, cheese, butter, olives, milk, coffee jar would be touched and used within 3 days straight from the original packaging.
Meat, bacon, eggs - you can wash hands when cooking in case you pick something up with your hands.
I’d rather do something about it whilst I know it may make a difference to my family.
Re cars, just make sure you don’t touch your face whilst in it and clean hands after driving. Especially if you still have to drive regularly for work. Being a police office sharing a car with other drivers would mean even more exposure and I don’t see how they could disinfect a whole car on a regular basis.

I have dyshidrotic eczema - so my hands are cracked, blistered and very painful - imposible to wash frequently and properly - I thought gloves were the answer I invested in quite a few pairs of lovely light bamboo gloves (eliminating the sweaty feeling) and added a second layer latex free nitrile gloves - would have been a clever solution but my eczema gradually got much worse all over my body not just my hands, I changed my diet, washing powder etc - eventually, despite it being apparently very rare (but surprisingly common) I have realised I am allergic to nitrile, I'm recovering now - my hands can function once more and I can use soap again - be careful that the cure is not worse that the disease.

@Branster

What evidence?

@Branster you need to put little wire or piece of bendy metal to the top so you can "close it off" above your nose. Glasses over the face mask, nkt uder.

You can also treat the glasses (this is something opticians offer when buying and I am angry at myself from being stingy...) With either anti fog spray or... Shaving foam! I use the shaving foam even for bathroom mirror

Where the hell are people who shop in disposable gloves getting all these gloves from?! It seems wasteful to me, when gloves get just as dirty as hands would have done but you have to then throw them away instead of wash them. I guess if you have hundreds of pairs of gloves and no sanitiser gel, or soap when you get home, it would be a good idea. Otherwise, it seems like a scandalous waste of resources. I’d rather ensure I have disposable gloves available to me when I’m at genuinely serious risk (eg family member gets covid 19 and I’m cleaning surfaces they have touched). It’s not as if you can touch your face while wearing gloves any more than you can touch your face while not wearing gloves, so what exactly are you trying to do by wearing gloves to the supermarket just to pick things up? Surely you still want to wash your hands afterwards, anyway, in case you accidentally contaminated you hands by taking the gloves off wrongly?!

Where the hell are people who shop in disposable gloves getting all these gloves from?!

I can't speak for everyone, bit everyone I know and I get them from hospitality suppliers and cash and carry. Hundred in a box usually.