AIBU to spray entire contents of shopping?

[BlondiebyBottle]

We are all aware by now that coronavirus lives on surfaces for a period of time. So I have been washing my tins, wiping down my boxes and packaging, etc of shopping when I unpack. Is everyone else doing this? Because the current advice of singing happy birthday while washing your hands isn't quite enough I don't think.

No

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Oh, good grief

What prompted me to do this is because when I was out shopping somebody wet sneezed quite near the shelf, I do have an immune compromised family member as well as two under 5s.

YABU. I also have a toddler & a partner with a compromised immune system.

I’ve been doing this all week. Only takes a few extra minute. A guy in the shop today sneezed into his open hand then proceeded to tug at around 5 tubes of vitamin c tablets until he managed to get one out of the plastic container. I don’t think it’s any harm.

Are you not over zealous with hygiene? Because certain germs can be very dangerous in certain individuals.

Well i don't think its necessary but if it makes you feel better, go ahead.

It's not the most bizarre example of over enthusiastic cleaning I've seen on here!

But how many people sneezed on the trolley handle....and at the checkout.... and on the rest of everything else you've touched today. You can't escape every germ in the world...

I with you there. We really don't know enough about this virus. Im advising that we should be doing all we can by way of hygiene, especially as some of us maybe care givers to vulnerable family, friends or neighbours.

’If it makes you feel better, go ahead.’

This.

I do spay the shopping trolley actually..... LOL, have done for years. Someone with coronavirus packs the shelves at sainsburys, then it's in your fridge?

So you're the one that's got all the Dettol wipes..

I just wash my hands when I get home and over the next 2 days, I wash my hands again after handling anything I bought (at least before eating). I suppose wiping itgem down would work the same but that surely means handling them a lot more in the first place.

No i have not got enough time in the day to wash everything that enters my house. I do think it's good to wash hands straight away when coming in and frequently in the day. I always have made the kids when the come home from school anyway and they do hardly ever get colds/ sickness. Tbf hand washing is one of the best ways to prevent sickness and staying off when sick.

LOL, nooooo, I'm not stock piling. Wipes are not necessary, disinfectant mixed with water and bleach in a spray bottle.

I"m doing that too. Makes me feel better😁

But viruses don’t live forever on things. If someone sneezed on something and you picked it up, fine. Your shopping that has been picked up and hour ago by someone who didn’t wash their hands and then sat in a refrigerated van for an hour and then came to you in a bag, a little over zealous? Surely you put things away, wash your hands, and then nothing you’ve touched or anything else someone has touched sits for hours and hours.

My father refuses to do anything until it’s ‘official advice.’ He was still drinking communion wine right up until they stopped giving it. I strongly suggested a couple of weeks before that it was a risk he shouldn’t take given his age and health. He ignored me. I could bleach the house and put the dog in a hazmat suit and it wouldn’t keep my parents safe.

Dog in a hazmat suit!

That's funny

And what about those people who have allergies? I myself allergic to bleach and if you've just sprayed it over a trolly handle you've just put my health at risk.

You're putting your own health at risk as I'm pretty sure guidelines on both bottles say you shouldn't mix chemicals either. The wrong combination can create noxious gasses.

There's being sensible, and overrescting
You are in the latter.

I'm not spraying bleach on shopping trollies, now that would be plain stupid. I use a metal disinfectant, like the ones used in salons and hospitals. Yes you're right in saying mixing certain chemicals can cause noxious gases, I should have been more clear, one or the other.

Tbf I worked in a supermarket and practically every surface got the wipe down numerous times per day. But trolleys and baskets...yeah...not once in the whole six months or so I was there. It just isn't done.

I wouldn’t have the time or patience, but I give the tins and packets a clean around the end that I intend to open, then decant the contents into a container. Mind you, I’ve always cleaned to tops of tins because there are some dirty beasts about. If things get as bad as I suspect and I lose my business (6 cancellations in two weeks) I’ll probably do a deep clean that would put a hospital to shame.