Do you agree with non contact Easter drops?

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As it says.

Have you delivered an egg but not spoken to people? How far do we go?

Yes of course it's OK, why not?

You can't know that. You or anyone who has handled that egg could have put the virus on it, kid gets it on its fingers, puts it in the chocolate then in its mouth

So nobody should be getting food dropped off for them then? That reasoning applies to all food does it not? Are you getting shopping? How come you arent putting the virus all over it?

If its on thier usual walk or on their way to the shops then whats the difference to them walking/driving past your door and dropping off something on your doorstep?

If you are that worried:
Take eggs out of packaging
Put packaging in bin
Wash hands.
Done.

mindutopia Sun 12-Apr-20 20:32:39
Well, my neighbours came over with a cards, present and chocolate egg for my dc this morning. While it was sort of hmm thoughtful of them, they have never once given us a card or anything on any other special occasion ever. But something about this lockdown suddenly inspired them to go to the shop and come traipsing on over bearing gifts while I’m sitting at home with an underlying health condition trying to stay the hell away from everyone. hmm
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Surely they didn't come in? When I've had someone deliver to or pick up from me, I open the door, they are halfway down the drive, I pick up what they left and thanks or if I want them to deliver something I point to it in the porch and go inside. We can have a bit of a conversation at a distance if we want. I don't get how your neighbours bringing card and Easter egg to you is so bad, hardly different to receiving a food order - in fact, far less.

It's certainly not essential, so delivering to 188 (or how many families this means) is ridiculous and a waste of money.

Was it your money?

Or do you think people might have donated them, spending their own money. With the purpose of making some kids have a bit of happiness.

If they are already out, delivering food, theres no issue. Lockdown isnt fun, but it doesnt mean anything that makes people a but happier needs to be stopped.

My dad dropped some eggs off here. He only lives half a mile away so dropped them off on his daily walk.
I also had some delivered as part of my Tesco delivery, so can’t see how my dad dropping some off as part of his daily exercise is any different to having some delivered by Tesco? I don’t wash my shopping so I didn’t wash the eggs my dad dropped off either.

No it's not essential
Spoke to little GS yesterday and as he believes any eggs he received were from the Easter Bunny he wouldn't have realised if he got more or less ( DD says he received plenty)
Is it now a thing that people give to adults?

Is it now a thing that people give to adults?

No, my dad bought them for my DC. They only got two each though...one that DH and I bought and the one that he bought. I guess if other parents buy their children lots of eggs then it doesn’t matter where they come from, but I’ve only ever bought mine one each (which I thought was normal!).

My pils dropped off eggs for us and the grandkids. They dropped then at the door and then said hello from their car which was parked across the road. As much as people think it is, fun is not cancelled just because were in lockdown. We can still have fun and spend lovely days together just in our houses and gardens

People doing mass egg drops makes me cringe a bit. Imagine if they had the virus, and they’ve now potentially passed it to goodness knows how many households?

It’s different to doing shopping for vulnerable people - the risk still remains, but it’s necessary to ensure they have enough to eat.

If people want to ignore the risk because otherwise it’s “ruining the fun” then fine but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t still exist.

I honestly don’t see the harm

Those who say No - are you still receiving your post, ordering things on line for delivery? I can’t see the difference in risk between that and an Easter egg drop by someone that wants to share a little happiness.

There are a lot of mini-Oliver Cromwells popping up on Mumsnet these days.

Who knew a virus could tell which items are frivolous and which are essential?

So it stays away from beans and veggies and swarms all over chocolate and wine?

Maybe corona virus has more in common with humans than we thought...

God we're really expected to have an opinion on EVERYTHING at the moment aren't we. Can't say I give a flying fuck and not sure why anyone else would either.

I've dropped Easter Eggs on doorsteps for the children we usually buy for then called their parents to let them know.

I've picked up a few essentials while out for my grandma who lives alone so added in an Easter Egg, Cupcakes, flowers and a few puzzle books, again these were delivered without contact.

Oh come on, we all know that only the easter bunny can deliver eggs. He went and bought himself a loaf of bread at the end of the journey, so the houses happen to be on the way....

My dm dropped my DC off eggs and hot cross buns. She didn't come in and surprised us with the drop off.

We spoke from 2 metres away. I hope she hasn't got it or passed it on to us. I hope we don't have it and passed it on to her.

This situation is shit, I'm not going to berate my dm for dropping us non essentials round but I do wish she didnt.

My mum was rather sniffy about her SIL dropping off eggs to her grandkids (walked to them on the same estate as part of her exercise, kept a 2m distance etc) when I spoke to her yesterday (‘well it’s not an essential journey is it?’). She later told me the only time she’d been out this weekend was ‘a quick run in the car to the co-op, for a bottle of wine’ she did not appreciate my pointing out that on balance hers was a less essential journey (‘I was in the car, I didn’t actually walk near anyone’).

I find the competitive Top Trumps outrage at the moment highly entertaining.

It’s different to doing shopping for vulnerable people - the risk still remains, but it’s necessary to ensure they have enough to eat.

So you dont think people delivering food take precautions?

If a person is infected and doing food deliveries, and the people receiving it then catch it......the fact that they caught it off bread packaging or easter egg packaging doesnt change that.

You do realise lots of food deliveries have non essential items in, dont you?

If it brings people happiness to take something for a few people they know and they aren't making huge numbers of extra trips, plus are keeping distance then great.
Delivering hundreds of eggs on their own is not essential and adding pointless risk, only an egotist would do that. Not all kids will be able to eat eggs, not all rainbows are drawn by children, not all children can draw rainbows etc etc. Much better to let their family get eggs if appropriate and drop those hundreds of eggs off at the food bank to go out with regular food boxes. (And volunteer to deliver for the food bank or a covid-19 group if you really want to drive around.)

We've done it but only to the kids in our street who we would buy them for anyways so it wasn't an extra journey.

Shitsgettingcrazy I’m not sure what you’re trying to say?

There is a risk of contamination every time someone goes shopping or gets a delivery. Granted, we can mitigate risks and reduce the chances, but the risk is still there. The presence of chocolate doesn’t magically make the risk increase, but then again it also doesn’t magically not exist?

And in my post you’ll notice I was also directly referring to people doing mass egg drop offs. So yes, someone getting an extra contact from an extra delivery that they otherwise wouldn’t have received, does increase the risk.

Now, you may decide that the risk is low and you’re happy with it - I have made similar judgements and certainly am not one of those people who sits indoors with a catsbum face eating dust; but you can’t pretend that the risk doesn’t exist “because food deliveries happen anyway”. It’s a risk, it’s an extra risk, you can’t pretend it doesn’t exist; you can just say that you’ve weighed up the pros and cons and have decided the risk is worth it.

Imagine what happens if in a couple of days time one of the “mass egg droppers” gets hospitalised with COVID? How many people have they now potentially infected? How many of those children genuinely would have been without an egg otherwise and how many have actually now been exposed for the sake of their 3rd egg of the day?

It was dh grandmas birthday yesterday. Shes 84 and hasnt left the house in weeks. She only lives a 10 min walk away so I bought her a bunch of flowers from asda while i was doing my shopping and we walked round put them on the doorstep with her card and rang her doorbell. Then we went and stood on the pavement behind her garden wall and sung her happy birthday. Had a distant chat for 10 mins and came home.

The presence of chocolate doesn’t magically make the risk increase, but then again it also doesn’t magically not exist?

Exactly. Most people do mass egg drop offs were doing as part of something bigger. Like other food drop offs.

As I said before, it depends on the context.

You do realise some people volunteering to drop food parcels, which include things like chocolate have already had it?

If you are really worried about someone dropping an item on your doorstep, they you wash the outside when it comes it. 'Essential' food or an Easter egg. You would wash the outside of the chicken AND the bottle of wine in the shopping that's been dropped off. It's no different.