Are you still wiping groceries?

[Lovely1a2b3c]

Just that! We have been wiping food shopping items as some of the family are vulnerable (not shielding) but wondering if it's time to stop?

I never was. Just put it away and wash your hands, that should be enough.

In Spain and we still are. Although we now don't wipe non food items and no longer strip all outside clothes off and have a shower immediately on returning home. Little by little in our house.

Unless you lick the cans when they come in, can't see why good handwashing routine isn't enough.

Just the fridge stuff gets a quick wipe.

And whatever I'm gonna use within a day or two.

I know someone who tested positive a week after dropping off shopping at her shielding grandparents and one of them is now in hospital with the virus...
It’s so hard to tell if wiping makes much difference to the chances of catching it just now though so really I’d only wipe if it’s not a difficult or time consuming task to do.

I haven't done this. I've always just washed my hands after handling them when i first get them home. By the next day i don't wash my hands after touching them (other than normal handwashing before eating etc

No wiping groceries here, just lots of handwashing.

I haven’t been doing it, apart from fruit , bananas , oranges.
I always wash fruit but not fruit that you peel but I have been washing them now .
Do whatever your happy with .

I never was.

Tbh, not really, since it became apparent that surface transmission is pretty unlikely.

Yes, still wiping everything here.

Did it once, it was a faff, now I wash my hands.
I can’t see that the viral load, if it’s there, is going to be enough on an individual item to be dangerous.

I do wash fruit, but I always have, so no change really.

Never started.

Yes still wiping everything in soapy water. It doesn't take long.

Back in April, posters here were saying they washed everything with Zoflora. And takeaways would infect you and you would die.

I have never wiped groceries.

Nope never have and doubt I'll start now

Don't do this, don't strip off at the door just lots of handwashing.
I also don't wear masks when out and about..I do keep 2m away from people though not at work,in ppe you have to get closer often to hear what is being said.

I was doing it but have now gradually drifted into not doing it.

I was thinking about posting this very thing earlier! I don’t but I wondered if everyone else was. It would take so long and use so many wipes. The only thing I wipe is cans that you drink from or a packet of something if I’m going to eat it right away. I just wash my hands after putting it away and wipe the door handles that I’ve touched.

We've enjoyed takeaways during lockdown. Usually get them once every few months but have been getting them every week as something to look forward to

We still do, I am still doing everything as at the beginning of the pandemic, plenty of hand washing, spraying light switches ect. It's going to take me a very long time to stop I'm afraid. X

Always sounded like a slipery slope with no end game on when it's "safe" to stop.

I'm sanitising before and after the supermarket and a handwash on getting in and after putting the shopping away. I always washed hands after anyway as they just feel dusty. After 2.5 hours to do two supermarkets and putting the food away, no way am I wasting even more time by wiping it down.

The virus showed traces on various surfaces, but there's a difference between "traces" and a quanity and condition sufficient to make soeone ill.

A bit like when DS had food allergies, we didn't eliminate products with hypothetical "may contain traces" as the risk of reaction was outweighed by the inconvenience of eliminating so many foods that were very unlikely to trigger a reaction.
Had he have had a very sensitive anphyactic reaction that risk assessment would have been different. "Shielding" or "vulnerable" is not a blanket risk. I'd weigh up old age/ diabetes/ imunocompromised differently as the risks of catching/ risks of complications differ.

Yep still doing it

Didn't do it in the first place.