New book brought into the house

[CurtainWitcher]

Book delivered by Amazon. I put the packaging straight in the recycling, but brought the book straight into the house. It's now on the coffee table.
DH said I should have put it in the garage for 72 hours. Should i?

Zaphodsotherhead
Wear gloves and masks.

bold fail, sorry...

There aren't any.

We are given gloves, but not enough to change regularly, and quite often those useless cellophane ones that they use in the bakery. Might as well put our hands in plastic bags. No masks. At all.

We just wash our hands a lot. Not much else we can do. No anti bac (except some behind the tills), no wipes, no bleach, no 'putting things outside for 72 hours'. Just handling stuff that's been handled, poked, and probably licked, by hundreds of other people, all day.

I haven't been wiping down any shopping...just washed my hands after going shopping and putting food away. Are we meant to be wiping down deliveries!?

The fact that I don't know what the book is called is driving me insane! Totally irrelevant but I need to know

Zaphodsotherhead
In my French town, all the shop staff have gloves and most have masks, some homemade.
I can see that if that wasn't the case, it would be odd to highlight the risks by suggesting shoppers quarantine their shopping.

Everyone I know here is leaving shopping for 48hrs, wiping down chilled stuff that can't be left lying around, and most are leaving post for 48hrs or else wiping it down with dilute bleach or a soapy solution.

I am just opening post. Putting shopping away without wiping it. Reading now a book that was delivered yesterday. Oh and working still as a key worker. Seriously the world gone mad. I expect l will get it at some point. Most of us will

It's a military operation in my house everything that come through our front door gets disinfectant spray doused over it, parcels get opened then wiped down, food gets spritzed with disinfectant then put away, hands get washed frequently handles get wiped down coats go into quarantine (in the coat cupboard) ,considering there was a thread on here the other day about things we thought we wouldn't be saying a month ago lots of people were saying then about disinfecting post/parcels etc all of a sudden everyone on MN has changed there tune and doesn't care!!

what is viral load? I thought you only need to be exposed to a tiny bit of virus to catch? I am washing shopping or quarantining.

Not worth the risk.

Library books were in hall for 72 hrs.

Its not a major deal, just reasonable. We have 2 people with underlying

we are quarantining all post for 3 days and also all shopping

I read a really interesting article about viral load and it seems that with a virus the more you are exposed to it initially the easier it is for the virus to overload your system so this would be why nurses and doctors are getting it extremely badly as they will be exposed to it from all directions. If you pick up a small amount from shopping it would be very unlikely somebody healthy would get seriously ill from a small viral load like that.

I also read it was pretty much impossible to pick it up from shopping as somebody infected would have had to sneeze or cough on the shopping first. Anyone coughing or sneezing should not be in the supermarket in the first place.

Barney - anti bac wont work on a virus.

Campervan69 oh but they are and they do I was st my cornershop/supermarket about a month back and some dirty old cow was coughing and spluttering all over the food it was disgusting and about 6 days later I and dh had covid 19! God knows who else picked up the virus after her it was disgusting she was coughing all over the food!!

Why are you buying books?! How on earth was that essential? probably worth putting it in the oven for 5 minutes at 70c

We watch Sky news most evenings and they do a kind of “key facts about the corona pandemic” type summary in between bulletins. Interestingly one of the screen slides shown last night stated something along the lines of ‘there is no evidence to suggest the virus can be transmitted via letters or parcels’.

Wonder if advisors have been reading Mumsnet and realising how extreme some people are being

We get packages everyday pretty much, we haven't done anything with them except bringing in the house

I read a really interesting article about viral load and it seems that with a virus the more you are exposed to it initially the easier it is for the virus to overload your system so this would be why nurses and doctors are getting it extremely badly as they will be exposed to it from all directions. If you pick up a small amount from shopping it would be very unlikely somebody healthy would get seriously ill from a small viral load like that.

Isn't that the basis of vaccination? That you get a tiny little bit of virus but not an overload, so your body reacts to the virus but without going into overdrive and then you have immunity?*

*Probably misunderstanding the science woefully there in the wishful thinking that virus-covered post may have benefits...

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Surely putting your post in the oven is preferable to death?

probably worth putting it in the oven for 5 minutes at 70c

But what if 70c isn’t enough? I’d set fire to it, if I was you. Just to be sure.

@Floatyboat

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@mumsmas1 I hope you're also burning your clothes and showering in bleach when you come home from doing said shopping, too. You can't be too careful!

I really wish there was some way of keeping all these hysterical posts elsewhere. I come onto mumsnet for a bit of escapism and every single fucking post is obsessed to the point of madness.

Covid 19 stays on surfaces such as the smooth covers of a book for 72 hours or more. Do what you want with that information. Personally it takes 1 minute to wipe it down with an alcohol wipe or leave it for a few days in a cupboard if you are not in a hurry for it. There are a lot of macho people on mumsnet who dont seem bothered if they get Covid 19 so they will be reading the book and licking their fingers just for the hell of it.

It amazes me that people are so twitchy about a delivery. If you bought something in a shop would you be as neurotic? Breathe, cough droplet and hand to hand touching are the main dangers everything else gets less and less

I'd really appreciate there being a separate AIBU for virus moans. I've deliberately blocked the covid branch from my feed. But I open an AIBU thread with no hint of CV in the title, and get ambushed regularly