To not quarantine these items for 72 hrs

[Carbosug]

Our online shop arrived this morning. The frozen stuff and milk were wiped with antibacterial stuff and put away. Everything else has been left n the 72 hr box.

However, there is wine in there. And there is chocolate in there. WIBU to release them early from quarantine

How about not actually ‘quarantining’ anything?! I shake my head at people doing this.

Nothing is quarantined in my house, food goes straight in the cupboard or wherever and if I get any post I open in there and then.

Posted too soon, but if you are doing it you're waiting your effort if you pick and choose, it's totally illogical to do it for some things and not others, how does the risk analysis work to come to that conclusion?

If you’re that paranoid about catching something from groceries then surely that extends to every item? Otherwise why are you bothering with the faff in the first place?

Short of not actively licking the outside of my food packaging I’m not taking any precautions, the risk is tiny.

I don’t ‘quarantine’ anything, fucking madness!

Unless your in the shielding group, why would you? I mean honestly how many people in icu do you think got it from packaging really?

Drink the wine, eat the chocolate........

We typed the same thing at exactly the same time @ComtesseDeSpair

Jeeze, I was trying to start a bit of a light hearted thread amidst all the gloom and doom.
MN really has changed since I first joined.

I wipe everything down and put it straight away. There's no quarantining foodstuffs.

I don't quarantine food items. I just wash my hands after putting the shopping away.

IMO quarantining shopping is ridiculous.

However if you do want to do it, why dont you just wipe the wine with "antibacterial stuff" like you did with the milk? Then it doesnt need quarantining by your logic.

Everything else has been left n the 72 hr box

A 72 hour box? Just when you think you've heard it all.. .

Is the 72 hour box part of the lightheartedness or is it real ?

@Carbosug fair enough you tried to be lighthearted but have you actually read some of the threads on the coronavirus thread? People actually are doing this and taking it very seriously. Sterilising food is one thing that’s being done - crazy.

Wine can definitely be anti-bac wiped. In fact I believe the alcohol content will kill the germs quicker. With the chocolates you have to destroy the packaging. That means you need to eat them all in one go. (Lighthearted for avoidance of doubt)

Jeeze, I was trying to start a bit of a light hearted thread amidst all the gloom and doom.
MN really has changed since I first joined.

Your post was a conflicted mix of light-heartedness and batshittery. But it's the batshittery that stands out

I mean honestly how many people in icu do you think got it from packaging really?

They probably got it from others who got it by touching packaging!!

Well when we’ve had threads where the op washes her shopping fruit and all in bleach, how were we to know you were being “lighthearted” some on here have been driven mad with the virus and some people are genuinely washing shopping and leaving it out the way for days

So yes mumsnet has changed a bit lately 🤷🏻‍♀️

Anyone who is frivolous about touching packaging is responsible for the deaths of old ladies

Wash the wine bottle in hot soapy water then put in the fridge to chill. Remove the chocolate from the packaging, bin the packaging and scoff the chocolate.

Without contract tracing we'll never know how people got it but I'd be very surprised if the number of cases from solely touching packaging would even me measurable. If it was that easy to catch don't you think we'd have more cases?

Wipe the wine bottle and then get a strawer

That’s my thinking coconut if it was because of packaging then deaths would surely be higher? Most of us buy food from a supermarket when it’s been touched by staff putting it out/ scanning it/ lord knows how many customers and most people aren't washing shopping, a few in the shielding group to be extra careful and the bat shit ones on here but most aren’t.

If you could get it from touching a bag of apples and it was that easy to get why aren’t more ill with it as we all touch some kind of packaging surely

OP, there was a thread the other day where a (healthy, non-vulnerable) poster described putting on a particular outfit to go shopping, wearing her mask and gloves, getting home, taking off mask and gloves and putting them out to air, washing all the groceries in dilute milton in the front garden then putting them in the garage to quarantine, discarding the carrier bags into black rubbish bags and putting them in the dustbin straight away, taking off her outfit in the garage, going indoors, showering and washing her hair twice, and putting on fresh clothes.

Unfortunately, right now, it’s difficult to tell the “light-hearted” batshittery from the actual batshittery.

YANBU, definitely open the wine and choc . As long as you're not in one of the vulnerable groups the whole bleaching and quarantining shopping thing is totally unnecessary.

A member of my household is currently having cancer treat and is also in another vulnerable group. Hence the caution re wiping down shopping. And why I needed a bit of a light hearted chat on here but that's been killed stone dead