Felt sick over customers wearing disposable gloves when shopping

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Do they not understand that this is worse for germ cross contamination than bare hands? Doctors, nurses, anaesthetists, dentists, vets etc change their gloves with every patient or more often if a messy job.

Shoppers with disposable gloves touch hundreds of stuff, face, money, cards etc.

This particular couple I saw wearing disposable gloves which had holes in the knuckles. This is caused by sweat breaking down the material in the DG. Then as they left the shop, they took off their gloves with their teeth and popped them into their coat pockets. That made me feel sick

I do wish someone would tell them that their protection is rubbish. I would love to see their faces on showing the results of Petri dishes with their gloves being swabbed v hands washed 15 mins earlier.

Usually an FFP2

Why should I?

I’m responsible for the cleanliness of my own hands and no-one else’s.

If I went round worrying about what all the other shoppers do with their own hands, I’d end up a nervous, snivelling Mumsnet wreck.

Don't see how you can be responsible for the cleanliness of your hands without considering the liklihood of their contamination from surfaces contaminated by others.... but ok.

Has any of you experienced problems with VINTED buyer? I would like to know your opinions and advise on this matter please

I have been using Vinted to sell off items that I no longer wear.
I just sold a hardly worn Mint Velvet parka coat ( I put on weight so doesn't fit me any longer). I put photos of the coat from every angle and I got an offer for & I accepted and post it on the same day. Despite the buyer received the packaging she delayed collecting it for some reason. Finally she collected the parcel today & soon after I received a message from her claiming that the coat had a burnt/ singe in the front of the coat. She informed Vinted, the payment suspended until we come to an agreement .
Basically, she was telling me that I mislead her with my listing but from the photos I posted it is crystal clear that there was no burnt or singe to it.
I packed it very well, if it got damaged during transportation shouldn't she be taking it up with YODEL? If it has happened during the transit shouldnt she have taken the photos of the packaging when she collected the parcel? Obviously the parcel would have been damaged before the coat got a burnt or singe.
She told me that "she wasn't going to leave a bad review" !! for not informing her the damage before I sold it to her but there was 100% no damage to it before I put it on the Vinted or before I post it.
I just need your honest opinions on this matter. I am incredibly upset for being accused of being dishonest also feel that she is trying to pull a fast one. I think she wants it heavily reduced to get it for next to nothing .
I have already got in touch with Vinted obviously it takes 48 hours for them to get back to me in the meantime it would be hear your wise advises
Thank you in advance for all your input and opinions

The buyer is trying to pull a fast one, hoping you will knock down the price. I would ask her to return it to you. There are many scammers out there and she seems like one of them. I find it hard to believe a burn mark could have been created in transit.

@user1470226590

I think you’ve mis-posted ?

lets hope they are not care workers popping in for supplies on their way home from work !

Perhaps she has the germs and doesn't want to pass them on, like how facemasks were supposed to work during Covid - they were never meant to stop you catching, more to stop you passing on.

You probably shower every day too. Who knows how many shopping trips those gloves have had…

Ohhh so you are actually bashing elderly specifically now?
Sorry, can't get on board with you.
You sound very unpleasant.

I just don't think this is an actual problem.

I worked in retail during Covid and most of us bought our own disposable gloves. The cost of replacing them after every customer was too much so we used hand sanitiser over the gloves. If we were handling copper coins the copper residue reacted with the hand sanitiser to turn the gloves green. Some customers complained. One woman berated me for my "filthy" (just sanitised) gloves while her little boy picked his nose.

Thanks @EleanorReally and @ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea
That needed calling out.
I hate posts that turn nasty.

When i worked in retail, numerous women would take notes out of their sweaty bras 🤢

We didn't wear gloves, we just used gallons of hand sanitiser and washed our hands frequently. The only advantage that I could see of wearing gloves was that it served as a visual reminder to us not to touch our faces. I managed to get right through Covid without catching it (even before they brought in all the PPE stuff) and only caught it right at the tail end (when everyone else had had it and therefore had no sympathy!).

Washing your hands frequently is just as good as wearing gloves. But having the gloves on reminds you not to rub your eyes or lick your fingers - although anyone who regularly works on a till knows not to do this anyway.

I only started to wear gloves because my hands were getting red and sore with the repeated use of hand gel. Initially we were each going through a box of gloves every shift and it got very expensive. Our employers offered us the cheap latex gloves but they made our hands sweaty, so we bought nitrile gloves and reused each pair until they tore, but used hand gel over the gloves after every customer. The gel and copper coins stained them but when this was explained to a certain type of customer she (always she) pretended not to understand; clearly they wanted us to destroy our hands.

I have severe OCD and wear gloves when I go on public transport and to shops because I can't stand the idea of touching the same surface that every person in the city has touched and some of them will be ill and won't have washed their hands after going to the toilet. I am plagued by anxiety but have no access to treatment so suffer in silence. Nobody would ever know this though because I just wear normal gloves with the finger tips that work on screens and tills. I wear the same pair all day and when I get home they go in a 60 degree wash. I'd be too embarrassed to wear rubber gloves because I don't like drawing attention to the fact that I have this condition. There are plenty others like me out there but you would never know because we're good at hiding it.

They may have auto immune issues and are immuno suppressed, which means even a common cold could be more serious - and Covid hasn’t gone away. They are entirely reasonable in wanting to protect themselves.

I thought it was because (a) you can/should wash your hands regularly, but you don't wash gloves, and (b) germs survive for ages on plastic surfaces but only a few minutes on your hands.

But they're not protecting themselves. Disposable gloves are for doing one task, not for wearing all the time touching multiple things.

Yuck.

I think it's reasonable to be concerned about viruses at the moment but they're called 'disposable gloves' for a reason.

I have severe OCD and have worn them to shop in the past but they came off the second I was finished in a single shop. I liked using them for the trolley and the self-service check out (which must be pretty covered in faecal bacteria from the 'I-don't-wash-my-hands-after-using-the loo-when-it's-just-a-pee-but-I-do-touch-the-public-toilet-flush etc' brigade). I immediately used sanitizer before getting into the car afterwards and I was extremely careful not to touch my face or anything germy.

Germs can survive (and spread from) unwashed hands for a long time too though.

Are you sure they don’t just have yellow hands?

So sorry to hear you cannot access treatment- it might be worth contacting the charity OCDuk who can advocate for you to get/ get more NHS treatment l. I'm mostly restricted to my house with OCD now - it is such a horrible illness.