Gloves when shopping

[Tootingwife]

Have generally been wearing gloves for shopping to help avoid transferring contamination back to my car (obviously I’m washing my hands when unpacking and handling groceries at home but that doesn’t work out and about). However, it seems to me that fewer people are using either gloves or a mask where I live.

Curious to who how many others on here are still wearing gloves or, if you’ve now stopped doing so, why?

[CrowdedHouseinQuarantine]

I stopped wearing them recently, someone told me any virus transfers easier by wearing gloves.
my excuse has been I wont touch my face by wearing gloves

[CrowdedHouseinQuarantine]

wash or peel your fruit

[darceybusselllovesbrussells]

@Spinakker wearing gloves doesn't prevent you from from needing to thoroughly wash your hands after taking them off. See the article I posted earlier; hands should be assumed to be dirty after removing gloves. However good you are at removing them (what's your technique?) there's be some transfer of what was in the gloves onto your hands/ wrists, it's inevitable. Your gloves are giving you a worryingly false sense of security.

[Floatyboat]

@ifonly4

Yes because us all doing what "feels" right will protect us from the virus.

I feel the enlightenment never reached Mumsnet sometimes.