Answering the door mask less ?

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Am I ok to answer my front door without wearing a mask. For example if it's a quick hello and thank you as driver hands me pizza.

I would answer it if a door to door fundraiser knocked for example and I May be talking for some time .. however not sure if it's expected for opening the door to deliveries .

What do you think?

Bleaching his car for 14months? It must be eroded to the bare frame by now
I have to agree, I think most people are returning gradually to normal and assessing the risk correctly. Unfortunately, the fear of covid has affected a lot of people's mental health and general anxiety about germs and are finding it difficult to rationalise that the infection risk is so low now.

If doorstep pests call here - in the unlikely event that I answer the door, I'd say any viruses wafting out are their own occupational hazard.

The only time I have was one the hv came to do ds's one year review. She was in full ppe and I asked if she would like me to wear a mask. She said she would prefer it, but it was my home and totally up to me, so I did. But I think to just answer the door then no I don't think it's necessary.

Why would you bleach a car? Maybe he should just stop licking it.

@GreyhoundG1rl

Why would you bleach a car? Maybe he should just stop licking it.

Don't, apparently there are some very strange fetichism and weird behaviour with cars (definitively NOT envy)

Oh . Who knew? 🤮

@AnnieAnoniMouse

I do, I think it's a courtesy. They're expected to go to a lot of houses in one day, and it's the one small thing I can do to make them feel a little safer & a little more respected/appreciated.

Nice gesture but it’s completely unnecessary. You Need to be within 2 meters of someone for 15 mins to be at risk of transmission.

Any deliveries here, of which there are many, the person delivers items at door, rings bell, steps back way beyond 2m, confirms parcel is at correct address all within 2 mins max and then heads off.

No risk and no mask wearing required.

Read the science, masks don't work. Stop wearing it!

@HedgePutty

I talk through the intercom and tell them to leave it on the doorstep. Interesting how many of you manage to accept a takeaway without getting within 2m!

It's extremely simple. Every single delivery I've received has involved the delivery person knocking, and then standing right back. More often than not they've already put the parcel/package/bag on the doorstep, but when they haven't, I've greeted them and then taken a few steps back into the hall so they can put it down.

The one case when someone delivered something heavy, he wanted to help by liftin it over the (quite high) threshold into the hall, which I really appreciated, so I walked right back to the bottom of my stairs so that I was more than 2m away.

@SouthOfFrance

Eh, they asked you what you were cooking?

Chugger technique to keep you on the doorstep longer so they can get you to give them your bank account details.

A simple No and closing the door again suffices, with or without mask.

It's a shame no take away delivery people get tips now we're all so careful to have zero contact.

I don't suppose paying cash at the door and giving a tip will ever return. My son (a few years ago) used to deliver take away Indian food as a teen and made most of his money via tips. The actual wages were dreadful.

Within 2 metres, indoors, over 15 minutes.....

However, doorstep, one of you outside, brief encounter (especially if a salesperson) - nope - no mask

Covid doesn't sit around waiting to jump on non mask wearers

@wheelywheelynice

Read the science, masks don't work. Stop wearing it!

meh, I got a great collection of various fabrics to go with everything I wear. Long live the masks!

I do. Think it's just good manners to whoever is making the delivery, not bothering is like saying they don't count as people even though they're dealing with so many people every day and have been through it all.

@RuggerHug

I do. Think it's just good manners to whoever is making the delivery, not bothering is like saying they don't count as people even though they're dealing with so many people every day and have been through it all.

No, it’s not. It’s like saying ‘the risk of contracting Covid from a 30 second outdoor encounter is so tiny as to be not worth thinking about’.

Love my mask, with my big sunglasses and mask and hat, I can gad about like Audrey Hepburn and not be recognised in town.

I don't wear it to answer the door though. The onus is on the visitor to maintain distance.

Tiny but still there. Why would you not do something very simple to make that risk even smaller for them?

@RuggerHug

Tiny but still there. Why would you not do something very simple to make that risk even smaller for them?

I wear a mask in the places that it is mandated by law.

i never order pizza... sorted

There would be a risk of them contracting Covid from me even if I was wearing a mask too, wouldn’t there? As masks aren’t 100% effective. Tiny... but still there. So why answer the door at all? Surely you’re better off not answering the door and protecting them from that tiny risk? If you’re ordering things to be delivered, you’re putting them at risk anyway, aren’t you?

It's a shame no take away delivery people get tips now we're all so careful to have zero contact.

I ask them and put the tip on a side or quickly hande it to them if they are ok with it. Handgel should make it ok. Shop assistants are handed money all the time as well

@TheOneWithTheBigNose

There would be a risk of them contracting Covid from me even if I was wearing a mask too, wouldn’t there? As masks aren’t 100% effective. Tiny... but still there. So why answer the door at all? Surely you’re better off not answering the door and protecting them from that tiny risk? If you’re ordering things to be delivered, you’re putting them at risk anyway, aren’t you?

theonewiththebignose Which is why we only use delivery when we have to and make sure to tip properly. Again, not 100% effective but it does reduce the risk so why not 🤷‍♀️

God no. What possible risk do people really think there is during a 30 second transaction on the door step when one person is outside? Even if the pizza guy doesn’t put it on the doorstep and hands the pizza to you it’s really not long enough to transmit anything. I don’t think it’s anything to do with good manners and none of the delivery folk around here have asked me to wear a mask when opening my door to them.

I do wonder how some people will cope without these restrictions in future - Covid isn’t going anywhere but we won’t be living like this forever.

Glad to hear some people are still tipping. It'd be a shame for that to die out completely.

I'm not prepared to live my life agonising over tiny risks. I think it's quite sensible to treat a few seconds of distanced interaction with a person outside your door as safe.

I do not wear a mask when opening my own door. However I would if I went to someone elses door, in case they were nervous. I feel like im invading their garden/driveway so would out of respect.