To wonder why people still don't get it?!

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Earlier, I was in the garden and I heard my neighbour saying to someone that she doesn't think the covid test will be positive as she thinks it's a cold but her sons being tested anyway.

Anyway, I was just putting something in the bin which is out of the gate, and when I was walking back to my house I saw her son go to bin some rubbish, I thought it was odd as why send him if he's got symptoms, he then proceeded to cough all over the bins including mine.

I'm a bit as surely someone who doesn't have symptoms could've gone as threw the rubbish away. Aibu to wonder how people STILL don't get it?

It's been pretty well established now that the chance of catching Covid from a surface outside is vanishingly low. So what he was doing was incredibly low risk and you have no reason to wonder why people still don't "get it". Honestly it's fine.

Unless you're going to run out now & lick your own bin you are in no danger.

Well - don't lick your hands after touching the bins.

All possible risk removed.

Our bins are next to each other and he coughed over his own and mine.

Okay, but you do realise anyone can have coughed by your car, on the bus, in a shop / post office / bank / library, in a dentist or Doctor surgery , on your front door knocker or doorbell, on the pedestrian crossing button or the door to the shopping centre, on your letters before they come through the door, etc etc etc ?

Wash you hands when you come in still seems to be pretty good advice - as indeed it always has been, long before COVID was heard of.

So you think that because he coughed over your bin . Then like others say you’ve washed your hands ( I assume) it’s only like going to a shop / public transport people touch things so wash hands afterwards job done.

People still don't get it? What like the fact there is a Coronavirus board for you to ring your hands on?

Do you lick your wheelie bin?

It is disgusting and bad manners for an adult to cough without covering their mouth, and unpleasant that he coughed over your bin.
As long as you wash your hands after touching it, though, you'll be fine. The refuse collectors who empty the bins touch so many bin handles on their rounds that the risk of it spreading that way is already there on collection day. I always wash my hands before touching anything else when I've touched the bin anyway, they're germ factories without covid!

Crikey, it isn’t March 2020 anymore. I can’t believe people are still this paranoid. If you’re an adult, you’ve most likely been vaccinated so you’ll be ok. If you’re a young adult without health conditions, you would most likely be ok even without the vaccine. Her DS probably does have a cold but even so, you can sanitise the bloody wheely bin if you want. It’s an outdoor bin, he hasn’t sprayed saliva all over your face. Get a grip.

Yes, of course I washed my hands after going to the bin. But I thought you could only go in your garden if you're isolating. And of course you need to put things in the bin but surely someone without symptoms can do it.

@Ohmygoshandfolly

Crikey, it isn’t March 2020 anymore. I can’t believe people are still this paranoid. If you’re an adult, you’ve most likely been vaccinated so you’ll be ok. If you’re a young adult without health conditions, you would most likely be ok even without the vaccine. Her DS probably does have a cold but even so, you can sanitise the bloody wheely bin if you want. It’s an outdoor bin, he hasn’t sprayed saliva all over your face. Get a grip.

Yes I've been vaccinated but my DS is vulnerable and has many health conditions but he can't have his vaccine as he's under 16

OP, latest research shows that surface transmission is very unlikely.

You won't catch Covid from a bin. Get a grip.

Yes, of course I washed my hands after going to the bin. But I thought you could only go in your garden if you're isolating. And of course you need to put things in the bin but surely someone without symptoms can do it.

No is expected to are their home unhygienic. How do you think, people where they all have symptoms cope? Or live alone? Just live their rubbish to pile up?

If you washed your hands, there's not an issue.

@Meredithisgrey

Yes, of course I washed my hands after going to the bin. But I thought you could only go in your garden if you're isolating. And of course you need to put things in the bin but surely someone without symptoms can do it.

No is expected to are their home unhygienic. How do you think, people where they all have symptoms cope? Or live alone? Just live their rubbish to pile up?

If you washed your hands, there's not an issue.

If they all had symptoms that'd be different as it can't be helped the same if someone was living alone. But they don't all have symptoms, only her eldest son does.

Are you going to lick the bin OP?

But they don't all have symptoms, only her eldest son does.

He went his bin. You can't catch it off surfaces AND you washed your hands.

Do you realise, this is no different to someone coughing near items in a supermarket? Or supermarket delivery driver coughing while sort the the van? If you have deliveries.

If they all had symptoms that'd be different as it can't be helped the same if someone was living alone. But they don't all have symptoms, only her eldest son does.

They might be carriers, or incubating it themselves. You are really quite vanishingly unlikely to contract it from the bin.

Is your DS's health making you more anxious, do you think?

Do you realise, this is no different to someone coughing near items in a supermarket? Or supermarket delivery driver coughing while sort the the van?

Presumably someone in a supermarket or a delivery driver would also put their hand to their mouth if they were coughing, instead of coughing everywhere.

And yes. I am more anxious with DS’s health conditions.

It’s a complete non issue op I’m not sure how you get about your day when you think someone going out to the bin coughing who may or may not have Covid is a big deal .
Going to the outside bin is not the same as going to the shop .

Presumably someone in a supermarket or a delivery driver would also put their hand to their mouth if they were coughing, instead of coughing everywhere

You think this man is the only person who doesn't cover their mouth when coughing?

And of they did, they would probably pick something else up or touch something else.

But you can't get it off the surface.

OP you really need to get a grip. ‘Rona ain’t going nowhere for a fair few years yet, you sound almost hysterical about it.
I’m almost hysterical at how hysterical people still are about it.
World needs to keep on spinning!

You won't catch Covid from a bin, don't worry.

Jesus OP you need to calm down. It's almost like you're trying to find something to be pissed about.

Have you spoken to the GP about your health anxiety and paranoia?

@Sometimesfraught82

Covid not going to make me take the bins out!

That’s my daughter’s one bloody chore!

Really? I saw it as a trip out to look forward to during lockdown 1.