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Catching it from surfaces?

59 replies

randomer · 17/02/2021 15:04

Remember the flurry of cleaning early. on...the clean section and unclean section of your kitchen surfaces,the spraying. Remember the refusing Amazon packages because they were infected. Quarantining clothes in plastic buckets?

Has anybody ever, caught it from touching something or is it infact airborne?

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lughnasadh · 17/02/2021 15:09

I don't remember any of that. No one I know has ever gone down that route.

The only person I know who had covid is a nurse. Asymptomatic, picked up on routine testing.

Supermarket workers have been just fine all along - the only outbreaks have been amongst staff working /socialising closely together.

Cookerhood · 17/02/2021 15:11

I think because things like flu & colds are caught from surfaces it was assumed it would be the same. There must be some risk, but I don't believe it's the main route of transmission from what I've read.

IceCreamAndCandyfloss · 17/02/2021 15:12

Still wiping shopping here, it’s just one less risk. It’s mainly airborne transmission that’s the risk but germs can survive on shopping and surfaces so it’s an area you can control more.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 17/02/2021 15:14

I never did any of that at any point.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 17/02/2021 15:15

And I have not had Covid that I'm aware of.

Originalusername2021 · 17/02/2021 15:20

Still doing it but not so worried about it.

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 17/02/2021 15:22

I have never wiped down shopping etc

My sister inlaw does. Which seems pointless because she is a teaching assistant and worked in school throughout. I dare not ask her the logic in case it starts an argument 🤷‍♀️

eurochick · 17/02/2021 15:23

"Remember the flurry of cleaning early. on...the clean section and unclean section of your kitchen surfaces,the spraying. Remember the refusing Amazon packages because they were infected. Quarantining clothes in plastic buckets?"

Er, no. I don't remember any of that. I don't know anyone who did those things.

Fuckadoodledoooo · 17/02/2021 15:26

When I was pregnant last year, I had to go to hospital a lot from March - august.

The midwives and consultants used to tell me to undress as soon as I got home, as close to the front door as possible, put all my clothes in the wash immediately, have a shower right away, quarenteen my shoes and hospital notes for a few days, wash my phone case.

Fucking hell. I did it about three times. But I was in and out of hospital.

Originalusername2021 · 17/02/2021 15:33

@Fuckadoodledoooo

When I was pregnant last year, I had to go to hospital a lot from March - august.

The midwives and consultants used to tell me to undress as soon as I got home, as close to the front door as possible, put all my clothes in the wash immediately, have a shower right away, quarenteen my shoes and hospital notes for a few days, wash my phone case.

Fucking hell. I did it about three times. But I was in and out of hospital.

Yep my OH pretty much does this every evening after work.
NaughtipussMaximus · 17/02/2021 15:37

I didn’t do anything like that though I did put parcels aside for a couple of days before I opened them and washed my hands after handling deliveries. I have a bit of a germphobia and knew that if I started washing shopping and having green and red zones in my home, it would damage my mental health, and having spoken to virologists through my job (I work in medical research), I knew fomite transmission wasn’t a huge issue.

poppycat10 · 17/02/2021 15:39

People will swear blind that the only way they could have got it is from their supermarket shopping, and how dare all those kids play in playgrounds because they're touching everything, but it was found quite early on that the risk of fomite transmission was overplayed.

I know when the holiday cottages reopened the owners were saying on here that simply washing over surfaces was no good anymore, they had to disinfect everything about three times.

Unless someone who has covid sneezes on something which you touch directly afterwards and then put your fingers in your mouth or up your nose, you are not going to get it from surfaces.

dementedpixie · 17/02/2021 15:42

@randomer

Remember the flurry of cleaning early. on...the clean section and unclean section of your kitchen surfaces,the spraying. Remember the refusing Amazon packages because they were infected. Quarantining clothes in plastic buckets?

Has anybody ever, caught it from touching something or is it infact airborne?

I never did any of that tbh
Keratinsmooth · 17/02/2021 15:43

No one can specify exactly where they picked up covid....

Anonanon12 · 17/02/2021 15:46

I'd be interested to know the stats on this, I've stopped wiping down items and being quite so paranoid, we do still quarantine things if they are used often and if we don't need it immediately, otherwise I'll just make sure I wash my hands after touching and before eating etc.

I feel like I need to lessen my anxiety by stopping doing quite so much as it's sods law you will do all this and then catch it elsewhere. I had a nurse appointment yesterday for a diabetes test and sods law was (that after a year of being super careful) she was measuring my height and sneezed. Yes she had a mask on, but she was right next to me and the mask wasn't tight fitting, neither was mine.
I just laughed and she apologised and said thank god for masks, whilst I stook there thinking I hope you're being tested twice a week and had the jab... And I now I think sod the wiping down shite, I'm more likely to catch it from one off appointments

skinwalker · 17/02/2021 15:51

I have been washing shopping since last March, quarantining post, change clothes when come home, etc.

Currently recovering from Covid..... Grin

User7458 · 17/02/2021 15:59

I've never refused an Amazon package or wiped one down, in fact I look forward to my several deliveries a week

SunshineNeededNow · 17/02/2021 16:01

I only remember it on here. People being mega ott.
I'm real life? Nope.

CornishYarg · 17/02/2021 16:03

Article about sharing sports equipment being lower risk than originally thought:

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/health-56007908

DH, DS and I all play different sports that we were permitted to play briefly in late summer. In all three, the advice from the governing bodies of our sports seemed to be overly concerned with not sharing equipment, sanitising equipment, sanitising hands etc and much less was said about ventilation, keeping distance wherever possible etc. The endless focus on surface transmission essentially gave a false sense of security and distracted from the more important issue of droplet and airborne transmission.

Clearly, the advice can't be changed to say surfaces don't pose any risk at all as that's not true. But I do think there should be more emphasise on droplet and airborne transmission and a bit less on surface transmission. Can't remember where I read it, but the author pointed out that the slogan "Hands Face Space" is the wrong way round in terms of importance.

hamstersarse · 17/02/2021 16:03

Quarantining post?

How can that even compute as a normal thing to do?

User7458 · 17/02/2021 16:04

Blimey the amount of stuff we get delivered, the house would constantly stink of Zoflora if we wiped and disinfected everything

idontlikealdi · 17/02/2021 16:04

No I don't remember that.

EileenGC · 17/02/2021 16:11

I don’t remember any of that. I have also never caught Covid - 48 hourly PCR tests confirm it.

AuntieMarys · 17/02/2021 16:13

Never done it. Never would.

ScrapThatThen · 17/02/2021 16:15

Superspreaders have to account for the most risk I think, and they have apparently identified that Superspreaders are most likely to be older and fatter (I am both of these things so had better become a recluse).