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?

just wash your hands and dont put them near your face

@Frozenfan2019 there is no evidence it can be caught again so you are wrong there. The cases retested as positive are not reinfected, or at least no evidence they are - look beyond the headlines. The leading scientists in the field give at least one year of immunity and it’s possible it will be much longer. It mutates far slower than flu so it won’t be an annual vaccine as we have for flu strains.

But I’m in the camp that putting stuff in the garage isn’t needed unless you are high risk. It must be incredibly easy to catch if I had it.

You are more likely to catch something from mice touching things in a garage than Coronavirus off a book.

We throw packaging away outside and wash hands then crack on with contents.

Completely bonkers to wash/quarantine parcels or shopping. This reminds me of pregnant women who think they've harmed their baby if they taste a bit of fruit cake with brandy in.

Any parcels I get are opened, then wash hands afterwards.

I really think you need to disinfect each individual page too

Previously I’d laugh at this but, I just had to wipe down milk, so that means I’m unraveling. I hadn’t felt the need to wipe any shopping down until now

I would have been half way through it by now with a brew and biscuits.

We get rid of the packaging straight away, it doesn't come into the house but I wouldn't worry about the book.

I went to the farm shop today and had my car window open, one of my batshit neighbours called out to me that it wasn't allowed to drive with your windows open

Going against the grain here, I am wiping everything down with a weak bleach solution. With your book I would have wiped the covers where people would be most likely to have handled it. And any packaging straight in the outside bin, followed by hand washing.
I don't care if it seems crazy, it takes seconds to do and minimises the risk of infection.

I find some people on here quite complacent.

Let's assume lockdown lasts another 3 weeks and at a visit to the supermarket in a week's time you contract the virus. You have it mildly and possibly have no symptoms at all. The following week you go to the supermarket again and the lady at the checkout contracts it from you, she has already encountered 2 carriers that day. Because of viral load she is at far higher risk of complications. As will any older or vulnerable customers/staff and any older family you have who you might see after lockdown ends.

The objective is absolutely to not contract the virus. 1/2% is a very high death rate for something people are saying everyone.will get. It's not high level maths to see that 690000 people would die even at the lower estimate that's not to mention the roughly 15/20% who are hospitalised.

Avoiding the virus by taking OTT precautions is the right thing to do. It protects everybody.

I bought a couple of new books via amazon two weeks ago and I left them for two days before I opened the package. I have also been disinfecting my shopping.

Are you putting yourself (and DH) in the garage for 72hrs when you’ve been out?

Quite Pegasus

You can't completely eliminate all risk. If 80% of us are going to get it, maybe better to get it over and done with.

Amazing how so many MNers think they know better than virologists or Epidemiologists who ARE cleaning OR quarantining everything that comes into the house.

If you're happy to get it now, that's one thing, but you're also taking that risk & spreading it to other people & will overwhelm the NHS. Selfish.

FrozenFan I agree with you. I am generally quite complacent about germs and illnesses. But this is different, as you say this is about protecting others as well as ourselves. I find this attitude of 'don't be stupid you won't catch it that way' quite worrying, because we just don't know, do we.

AmelieTaylor completely agree too.

We open packages as soon as they arrive. Bin packaging, wash hands, job done!

@ShastaBeast could you link to something if you have read something? I can only find this article which is inconclusive but suggests we may only have short lived immunity

www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532754-600-can-you-catch-the-coronavirus-twice-we-dont-know-yet/

i havemt washed or quarantined my food or any parcels that have come i think its a bit ott

Avoiding it by taking OTT precautions is bordering on health anxiety and mental illness.

I have it. I most likely caught it from a supermarket (only place I've been). When my isolation is up I will go back to the supermarket to buy food for my family. I follow social distancing. I haven't been within 5m of many people for weeks. They have perspex shields at the till. People are queuing in. The only ones I know being lackadaisical were the supermarket staff who refused to move to let me pass with 2m distance and the one who coughed on me.

Why don't we all start taking baths in bleach?

The aim of the lockdown is to slow the rate of infection . We cannot stop it.

He's got a very good point.
Unlikely but you can never be 100% sure that it's not been coughed or sneezed on.
It only takes one microscopic germ.
My DF works in a shop and she said you wouldn't believe how some people STILL sneeze and cough over her fruit and veg.
I would have wiped it with an antibacterial wipe.

@HopefullyAnonymous me too 😁 most disappointed

Jesus.

H.

Fucking.

Christ.

We've been washing hands religiously even though we're atheists, all packaging from parcels/letters doesn't come in the house, we open everything on the doorstep and then put it in the recycling bin.
When I get in from work all my clothes go in the wash and my shoes stay in the car and nobody else goes in there. I shower and wash my hair. We wipe the door handles of the house with anti-bac wipes that are over 60%.