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.

Evidence is the virus degrades quickly, but can “survive” for up to 72 hours on surfaces like plastic and steel, and 24 hours on cardboard. The more porous the surface, the shorter the time the virus is likely to be viable. That’s in a lab, of course - how infectious it actually is on these surfaces after 24 hours to real human beings who regularly wash their hands, rather than technically still being viable, is another question entirely. As for salad.... no research done on how safe your lettuce is to eat after 24, 48 or 72 hours... soapy salad, anyone?!

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

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Instaed of sanitising packed food, rip off all the plastic packing and throw it away and then do a proper handwash. Glove in supermarket is ok if you put them on immediately before going in, dont touch your face and take them off as soon as you come, please dont throw them on the floor

@justcly
the study of the virus on materials www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973

A lot of the sanitisers are no use

@NoMorePoliticsPlease this is why I make my own using the WHO guidelines www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf and of course, as I am not making 10 litres, I just rounded up the last digit

Official advice is that disposable gloves are not helpful for shopping, as they give a false sense of security and are just another surface for the virus to live on - which you can be contaminated by when you take them off, and which will be contaminating everything you touch with them. What I find bizarre is the number of people I see holding their mobile phones to their faces, wearing gloves. What exactly do they think they are protecting themselves from, shoving their phones to their faces like that? Gloves aren’t protecting the surface of the phone that is now touching their face?!

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 Grim without this virus.

You really can take things to the very extreme.

Yep & that’s my intention. I’d prefer not to die alone feeling like I’m drowning. Disinfecting door handles seems a small price to pay.

@justcly. 🙄🙄If you are disinfecting unwrapped fruit and vegetables, unless you really want a nasty stomach upset, I suggest you stop this immediately. Best you contact Miltons & tell them you know better than all of their research over the years.

I haven’t shopped in a store for a while but last time I went I had a routine which meant no phone, no face touching, do it all then hand gel (got a rare tiny one way back when).
Hand wash when home.
The handles of the trolley make me think I could use gloves next time. But still same as above.

Where is it even possible to buy disposable gloves? I would love some, but no chance

THIS

I buy mine from my local farmers merchant. There were loads a couple of weeks ago but possibly they've all gone now, which is irritating for the farmers in the middle of lambing. I buy them regularly anyway .

Official advice is that disposable gloves are not helpful for shopping, as they give a false sense of security and are just another surface for the virus to live on - which you can be contaminated by when you take them off, and which will be contaminating everything you touch with them

Official?

Tonyaster - well, exactly, people who don’t actually need disposable gloves suddenly buying them just causes problems for people who genuinely need them. It’s like the whole toilet rolls fiasco - people being crass.

I buy mine from my local farmers merchant. There were loads a couple of weeks ago but possibly they've all gone now, which is irritating for the farmers in the middle of lambing. I buy them regularly anyway .

I don't know if food grade is enough but if I were a farmer in need, I would ask local food establishments if they have spare few boxes since they closed. I am sure some catering supplier will still have some too. But I get how annoying that situation mist be!

Tonyaster - as in Public Health England and the NHS.

I had them anyway. But also can they not be kept to be reused the virus will not be alive after the 72 hours.

It may feel counterintuitive to do this but I can’t see why not.

Food grade are crap! Wore a blue food grade pair this morning and they'd torn before I'd been mucking out for 10 mins. I usually wear the thicker, black, more expensive ones

If they are genuinely helpful then of course people should wear them. As I say, they remind me not to touch my face.

MarshaBradyo - could be problematic getting them off your hands in a way that guarantees you can use them again while simultaneously not touching them so much your hands just get contaminated by the gloves you were wearing to avoid contamination of your hands... You can reuse your hands, though, post-washing!

The alternative is to buy the white cotton ones thst you can wash at 60.

I've not yet started to wear gloves - I don't feel it makes any difference really cause I'd still be touching my shopping bags, items, card, etc with the dirty side of the gloves. I've just been keeping our sole bottle of hand sanitiser in the car and when I get back into the car I use that on my hands, the steering wheel and my car keys.
We've not been disinfecting the items we buy. That seems a bit excessive. I've been trying to limit the use of hand sanitiser/cleaning products etc cause my skin is suffering for it.

That’s true Walkaround I did actually read up on how to get them off due to this thread

justcly not the grocery itself, the packaging of the grocery - I did not phrase that correctly. So, I am in the shop, gloves or not, it is likely my hands are contaminated. I pick up the packet of ham, made of plastic. The packet is made of plastic, the ham is not made of plastic and it sits safely within the sealed plastic packet. I have seen no clear information stating the plastic or rubber gloves can definitely transfer this particular virus from surface to surface. Bare hands could. Based on what we know today, I know there is a high risk I might contaminate this sealed packaging. And so on.
No idea where you get gloves from. I used a pair from a hair dye box. I have no other plastic or rubber gloves apart from marigolds which I won’t be using outside of the house. Next time I go shopping , not for at least one week, if my knowledge and understanding remains unchanged I’ll use small plastic bags with elastic bands around the wrist during the actual shopping session, then dispose of them.
It really isn’t rocket science. We’re not supposed to go shopping often anyway, it’s a simple enough process however annoying it may be.

OmgThereAreNoLanesAboveMeNow thank you for the top tip.

I wore a vinyl pair to supermarket this morning

The alternative is to buy the white cotton ones thst you can wash at 60. Or wash at 30C and tumble dry!