Wiping down/quarantining shopping and parcels

[TheLifeAndDeathBrigade]

Can anyone convince me either way? I've not found anything particularly conclusive (admittedly have not looked too hard as have baby and toddler keeping me occupied). Have had a few parcels delivered today that I'd like to rip open. I should just do it shouldn't I?!? Highly unlikely route of transmission?

[quote TheLifeAndDeathBrigade]@AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair as I've said in previous posts, I'm looking to garner general opinion as have two people with health anxiety who use me as their sounding board, and quite frankly it seems a bit bonkers to me to do this. Data on route of transmission would obviously be quite convincing, but, in the absence of that, I'm using a talk board, to, god forbid, talk about an issue that's been raised to me and ensure that my view is not widely outside of the norm. Is that ok with you? [/quote]
I was asking a genuine question

Common sense and general knowledge tells us that shopping and deliveries are not things that are responsible for infections but people with health anxiety don't see it like that. Everyone can line up and tell them it's not necessary but as it doesn't harm anyone else why not let them get on with it.

I can see the value of doing it if someone is particularly anxious and it helps them manage it. However, personally, I think it’s completely pointless, carries negligible risk and not something I would do.

I don’t clean everything that comes in my home because it’s very hard to do without cross contaminating everything as you go

I do quarantine stuff for a few days or if i have to handle it before then I make sure I wash my hands straight away. I know a couple of people who caught covid and the only contact they’d had was deliveries so I figure it does not harm to be careful.

@AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair apologies for being snippy in that case, I obviously misread the tone of your post.

It strikes me as a little odd that one of these people at least, does this cleaning of shopping/quarantining of parcels but will drink takeaway coffees. But then I guess anxiety is not always logical. I'm reticent to discuss the reasoning with them as think maybe I'll just push them to not have a coffee/takeaway/whatever other little pleasure they partake in that brightens up their time at the moment. But to me it just does not seem entirely logical but I did wonder if I was missing something. I'm not even sure it makes them feel better to be honest, from what they've said it's feeding the anxiety.