If you have no one vulnerable at home do you still wipe down all your shopping

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When you bring it home?

I have been doing this but I forgot last night after getting something at local tesco, now I'm terrified I've brought the virus home

Why do you need to wash your hands after putting the shopping away if there's no risk?

Because I don't just wash my hands because of Covid-19!

No. Never have

PLEASE do not worry about this - it is NOT a real risk

I'm not so sure this is correct since listening to a doctor on R2 during the peak talking about the virus surviving on surfaces. He said it survives up to 48 hours on card and paper and 72(!) on glass and plastic. Ever since i have been wiping everything although i admit i'm getting tired of it now. But just read the post upthread about the man coughing over everything in the supermarket and you'll think twice before not bothering to wipe stuff down!
...although even that isn't failsafe as the virus can lurk in crinkles and creases of packaging. Aagghh!!

I've not wiped down or quarantined anything. I open my mail as soon as it arrives.

When I go shopping I wash my hands before I go, when I get back and after I've finished putting things away.

No I have never wiped shopping down.

I have never wiped down any shopping or anything coming into the house, have had several takeaways. All fine. I wouldn't worry.

I am sure I read something today saying the CDC are now saying that it might not be able to live on surfaces like they first believed.

I open my mail as soon as it arrives

I don't. But that's nothing to do with Covid, and everything to do with not wanting to look at bills.

No

That was my one and only concession to MN hysteria, I haven't quarantined, wiped or disinfected anything more than normal so hopefully I can be saved

Nope, you need to go sit on the naughty step.

He said it survives up to 48 hours on card and paper and 72(!) on glass and plastic

Under lab conditions, not in real life. A pp said it’s like a soap bubble it’s that delicate, it’s damaged on touch, which correlates with the Heidenberg study where scientists could not find it live on any surface in infected people’s homes. Even where four members were infected.

Lab conditions are very, very different.

I don’t wipe down shopping or worry about mail. I believe in viral load. I think it’s probably beneficial to the immune system to meet traces of the virus. It might develop some antibodies.

I've never wiped it down. I don't have the time or the energy.

Yes.
I dunk everything through a sink of cold water and Milton

No. I don’t wipe down shopping.

Thanks everyone, food for thought.

I'm not so sure this is correct since listening to a doctor on R2 during the peak talking about the virus surviving on surfaces. He said it survives up to 48 hours on card and paper and 72(!) on glass and plastic

It’s exactly this sort of shit that annoys me. It is both true and completely misleading at the same time. It does NOT happen in the real world.

Try using your washing up liquid to create some bubbles and then see if you can move them between surfaces. It’s incredibly difficult even if you’re as careful as you can be. And any virus starts dying the second it leaves a host - fluids slow down the decay, hence transmission through coughing/sneezing etc. Even then, if you are not directly in the line of air travel you’re staggeringly unlikely to get something.

I do but it's because it's a habit now I'm way more relaxed with it but I'm still sanitising stuff as such which really pisses me off every time I do it. I'm more annoyed I've got into the habit of spending £200 a week on food now.

I currently have 14 different packets of meat in my fridge/freezer and now when I get below 11 packs I feel really sick and nervous we will run out again.
I know I can always buy more as it's there in the shop.

But I'm worried they'll be no food left again and we will go without again due to people panicking last time.

I literally have everything you need to last a month in this house and I'm still shopping the same big amount each week. On the plus side now I'm not going to Sainsbury's daily I am saving a hell of a lot of money just doing one big shop.

But just read the post upthread about the man coughing over everything in the supermarket and you'll think twice before not bothering to wipe stuff down!

No, even that didn't convince me to do it.

There's only me living at home but I sanitise all the shopping and the bags...and then wash my hands. I just feel it's best to take all precautions....

Yes I do

Yes

Virologists have suggested it's a good idea & they do it. I'll take that advice over anyone else's.

I put anything not needed for a few days, in the spare room, put a date on the bag.

Bowl of soapy water for the rest, rinse it off, dry it & put it away.

It's a bit of a faff, but CV is a much bigger faff!

Washing your hands after putting it away doesn't help when you next lift the bottle of milk out of the fridge.

@ssd. I'm being incredibly careful because of underlyings, but it's not possible to be perfect. Try not to stress, I'm sure it's the very tiniest of risks 🌷

In Spain the restrictions were so strict in lockdown that the only way that non-key workers could catch Coronavirus was from their shopping so yes people can catch it that way.

No. The reason why there were so many people in Spain and Italy who literally never set a foot outdoors and yet still came down with the virus and became hospitalized, was because they were contracting the virus from people in their homes (and care homes and hospitals) who were carrying the virus already but showing few or no symptoms. Because Spain and Italy made little attempt to get mild cases out of their homes, and just left them in there to infect other family members.

Again, goes back to what I said on the other thread---bleaching groceries and worrying about parks is distracting people from the main ways that the virus is being spread.

OP, we've had coronavirus in our house now but before that we did wipe down all our shopping. (We caught it before lockdown.)

No point in worrying if you forgot one week as you don't have a time machine, but in your shoes I'd keep wiping your shopping. Better safe than sorry.

My dh still has the virus about 8 weeks later and it's not nice. If we could have avoided it, by spending a few minutes wiping down the shopping, blooody hell that would be a few minutes well spent.

Which virologists? The ones I know roll their eyes if anyone mentions washing their shopping. Including the one I live with.
No. We don’t wash our shopping. Nor do we unbox the pizza to eat it.

Yes, I'm still doing it, but OP I wouldn't be too worried about a one off slip like that.

I'm hopeful when I hear people think it's less transmissible than previously thought via surfaces, but so long as the general advice includes handwashing and cleaning I'm going to keep following that advice, and applying it consistently to all surfaces - including food packaging. I'll reconsider if rates get very much lower or the handwashing advice gets officially removed.

bleaching groceries and worrying about parks is distracting people from the main ways that the virus is being spread.

Nope. I'm quite able to not meet up with people, wash my hands & wash stuff that comes into my house and be annoyed with people driving many miles to go to the beach etc with hundreds/thousands of other.

'bleaching groceries' - using a sneery phrase to convey madness isn't helping anyone.

*i only get a B for not touching my face at home, definitely 'room for improvement' but as I have done my best to keep it out of my home, it's not quite such a worry.