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?

Will you carry on forever?

Yes she does. For the sun to kill the virus. It’s not a commercial spray either, she made her own bleach solution.

Nope. Never have and advised by a friend who is a microbiologist for a large food manufacturer that it is pointless and counterproductive.

Just hand washing after handling and wiping down of surface where shopping unpacked.

I’ve only recently started to be a bit lax about this. With shopping for a family of 6, there was a lot to wipe down but I’ve kept it up. Now I’ve started to concentrate on stuff we unwrap and touch straight out of the packet and eat with bare hands like bread bags (especially the opening), biscuit packs, rice cakes, sweet packs, cheese etc. The rest of it I really cba anymore!

I always take stuff from the very back of the shelf in the supermarket, or lift of the top crate and take stuff from underneath to reduce the risk that someone may have coughed or sneezed on it as they passed by.

We are getting deliveries after the (busybody) toddler goes to bed and one of us unpacks and washes in soapy water, the other dries puts away. We are still doing it but not with cardboard and tins, and definitely only doing a tiny rinse now which probably does nothing but waste our time tbh! I just can’t be arsed any more!

We had a tiny baby at the start of lockdown, I of course still want to protect her but I feel less panicky than I did a couple of months ago. DH used to come home from work, strip off, clothes straight in the machine, straight in shower, now he just washes his hands. We both feel fatigued by it all; there’s only so long you can live in a state of high anxiety imo.

God no, is this a thing?
Why would you do that.

Doesn’t the immune system need some exposure to bacteria and viruses though? We can’t live in a sterile bubble forever. Not that I’m particularly clean.

www.bbc.com/future/article/20151118-can-you-be-too-clean

I never was.

I never was wiping it

[quote FluffyKittensinabasket]Doesn’t the immune system need some exposure to bacteria and viruses though? We can’t live in a sterile bubble forever. Not that I’m particularly clean.

www.bbc.com/future/article/20151118-can-you-be-too-clean[/quote]
Yes I believe you can and I do wonder if we will be left with a generation of germaphobes after this, my two year old is obsessed with washing her hands, with daddy being dirty when he comes in so she can’t cuddle him, she can’t get too close to other people or touch people or things when we are out...

Apparently keeping pets is great for the immune system, I’ve not been washing the cat! And he sleeps on our bed!

Cannot believe people have done this.
What do you do when you get a takeaway/ fish and chips /ice cream
Irradiate them before eating.

We didn’t get takeaway for ages, and when we finally got a dominos I cooked it again in the oven. I know how crazy that sounds, and I don’t do it any more and we’ve started having takeaways again! I was just scared if I’m honest.

Oh god dont mention takeaways lol

Exactly Mrs Expo
Can’t believe people have been sucked into this nonsense.

Nope.. Never have and advised by a friend who is a microbiologist for a large food manufacturer that it is pointless and counterproductive.

Just hand washing after handling and wiping down of surface where shopping unpacked.

Can’t believe one of my friends left a parcel for 72 hours before opening it.
She’s an intelligent woman too.
Just get the darn thing opened and wash your hands ffs

No need to apologise hazanduck
It’s just the way the doom laden, scare mongering media have played us for fools.
Thankfully most of us have seen through the idiocy.

We were doing but we've gradually stopped.

My son works in care.
He’s been in touch with a client who tested positive
He’s absolutely fine.

Never done it. No ill effects.

We've never done it. I just wash hands before eating and if I get a takeaway coffee or something I decant it into a mug at home and discard the cup. There's only so far I can go before I would lose my marbles to be honest.

I've not done it, just been a bit more careful than before with food prep like sandwiches, food that's handled. I have though, when got takeaway chips, thoroughly microwaved them 😚. Not had pizza yet but think that will go in the oven. I'm not obsessed but don't particularly want to catch covid.

I do wonder if the reason we have had such a severe outbreak is because people are not following these simply hygiene measures or being too casual about lockdown.

I think It might be locking down a week too late. In that week allowing non-essential travel, including allowing flight arrivals with no quarantine and several mass events. discharging patients with no testing to nursing homes to clear hospital beds and lack of PPE in nursing homes. I think actually it will probably be many of these things that caused the severity of the outbreak. Oh and correlation with bad outbreaks and high density of the population.

Exactly, everything left to the last minute.

Nope. Never did. Waste of time.

Yes, still sanitising the lot. I just feel happier for it, but then I was always fussy about the shopping even before any COVID, used to wash down things that went in the fridge like milk cartons etc. I shall carry on doing so for as long as I feel comfortable, doesn't harm anyone else.....

There was a case in Singapore (I think) where a couple came from China and went to church. They then tested positive - so contact tracing was done of all of the people who had been in the church. Many people caught it but the scary thing is that two of those people went to church at a different time to the infected people.

They must have caught it from fomide transfer - i.e virus droplets on the seat, back of chairs etc. So it is definitely possible to catch it from touching something an infected person has touched or coughed on.

Now as yourself - that item from the supermarket. How many people walked past it, how many people handled it - from unloading it from the lorry, to putting it on the shelf, to customers who may have picked it up then put it down, to the checkout person or delivery person. Then what about people who walked past, who may have coughed on it. If any of those people were infected - it could have virus on it.

Washing my groceries is a pain in the arse. But for me, my mental health is better if I consider that everything that comes into my house is disinfected then once we're in the house we're clean.