Catching it from surfaces?

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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?

@Keratinsmooth

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

I don’t know. I can be pretty sure I got it from my daughter, and pretty sure she got it from school, given that she’d been nowhere else and touched no post.

I did used to disinfect all my shopping etc. Now I don't. Covid fatigue had definitely set in with me

I never did anything like that. I don't have the room to quarantine parcels or the time to wash everything down. If I have a delivery I want it now!

I wiped my shopping and didn’t get a takeout for about one week and then couldn’t be arsed any more!

Oh also did anyone get the dominoes deliveries where they set the pizzas on a white cardboard box at the door? I mean what was the actual point?
I think we will (hopefully) look back and laugh at some of this stuff - like people thinking you could catch aids from a toilet seat!

Lol, I love mumsnet for making me realise how odd I am!
Lol my shopping still gets dunked or wiped before it goes away, what Ball ache!
Everythings sanitised! We haven't had covid though!

I remember watching massive sprayer vans in China, and somewhat bizarrely on a Spanish beach, and in Venice squares, spraying disinfectant over pavements and into the air. What a complete waste of time, and how horrendous for the environment. Don't seem to see that anymore, thank goodness.

@Loopyloututu

Oh also did anyone get the dominoes deliveries where they set the pizzas on a white cardboard box at the door? I mean what was the actual point? I think we will (hopefully) look back and laugh at some of this stuff - like people thinking you could catch aids from a toilet seat!

We did.

The door on our porch opens outwards. We used to put up a sign saying please don't leave it on the door step or we can't open the door.

The left it there everytime abd we had a couple of near misses.

First time we got one, Dh decanted them onto plates, washed his hands, put the boxes out side, washed hands.

Now we just eat pizza right out the box.

We still ‘decant’ our pizzas 😁

@Originalusername2021

We still ‘decant’ our pizzas 😁

Posh

@Fuckadoodledoooo we did the same with the pizza in plates - once was enough!

At the beginning DH was a bit worried about getting a takeaway. I told him I was ordering curry for one and he soon got over it!

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

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 🤷‍♀️

Maybe because as a TA she is in the firing line and can actually control this aspect?

Maybe if you have to do dangerous things, the logic is that as much caution elsewhere as possible evens the chances.

Schools are run on the basis that children will wash their hands and surfaces will be wiped down if shared between people. Other than that, people are unmasked, in close contact with others, in badly ventilated indoor spaces with many others.

It's airborne, so this shouldn't be allowed, but it is.

It doesn't mean individuals stuck following the government's restrictions on their own lives, but at unavoidable risk in the workplace should be ridiculed for doing what is within their power.

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

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 🤷‍♀️

I'm guessing that she's doing her best to mitigate any chances of getting it that she can without losing her job.

The risks at school are one set of risks
The risks of shopping transmission are another set of risks.

The two are not related.

Yep, I wash/wipe everything. Sanitise all my shopping, wipe all surfaces. If I'm at work I strip off and wash everything on my return home and have a shower (currently furloughed).

I wear gloves all the time when out, disposable ones, especially when pushing the trolley round the supermarket. Take off cleanly, dispose properly, new pair of gloves for new shop/petrol station/whatever. I also leave post, clean down things like magazines before reading them, wash hands after opening letters etc.

To be honest, I was fussy about "germs" even before COVID. Fortunately I live on my own so it doesn't affect anyone else, and I feel happier and cleaner for it.

Good article about Covid and surface transmission
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4

I still won't touch any eBay/Amazon package until 24 hours have past but will receive food shopping and not even apply the same method makes bonkers sense but I still do it

I remember reading quite early on that there are different ways Covid can manifest.
E.g. Some people have gastro or vomiting symptoms, rather than cough, some have headache.

I did wonder at the time if it reflects how you caught it in any way.
Eg having touched something infected and putting your hand in your mouth/eating something might cause gastro symptoms first because it went to your stomach.
Whereas breathing it in channels it more to the lungs initially.

Would be interesting if there is any correlation.

My parents still do all of that. My dad has a welly which he uses to nudge post out the way of the door for a couple of days. Online shopping is unpacked wearing gloves and all wiped down.
Despite being in my support bubble (child under 1) we have to have a negative lateral flow test before we see them.
Neither are CEV, but have severe health anxiety

Today got in from surgery me and the baby have had a bath/shower all clothes gone in wash did the same with all appointments throughout pregnancy.Not had covid yet

As for the rather rude "er no" I counter with " er Yes", thousands of people did sanitise shopping, parcels and so on. I volunteered ( during a short window of opportunity) in a charity shop who had deteailed and explicit instructions about touching clothing and surfaces.

@EveryoneRevealsThemselves, thanks an interesting read.

There isn't yet any evidence on this.

Washing hands wouldn't be necessary if it's not transmissible other than airborne. Some outbreaks in NZ have been backwards traced to formite transmission and because they have so few cases and brilliant tracking & tracing (forwards & backwards) they can do this well. In the U.K. We have far too many cases to do this properly.

You are most likely to get it via large droplet direct transmission

Then secondly, airborne transmission - building up in the air & hanging around

Then formite transmission.

I prefer to keep my home 'free of COVID' so that I don't have to think about touching stuff or worry about touching my face.

So I get shopping delivered - non veg fridge stuff gets washed in dishwashing liquid, rinsed & dried. Vegetables get out in the large vegetable drawer and I wash my hands every time I get veg out of it. (I was washing it originally, but it wasn't lasting very well) everything else goes into the spare room & stays there until it's needed. As I keep a good store cupboard (always have) if on the rare occasion I need something it gets handled carefully appropriate to what it is.

I open parcels/post & tip them onto the table, dispose of the packaging, wash my hands & deal with the contents -mail is read then either dealt with or shoved in the quarantine box (aka to be filed when I can be arsed) wash hands again.

Then I don't need to even think about Covid inside my home. Other people Liu s don't think it's a big enough risk to bother with, that's up to them. But I have several underlying issues, so - to ME- it's worth it 🤷🏻‍♀️

I've never done it and never would and I have not cleaned my house or washed my hands any more than I did before all this, as I would like to consider myself a pretty clean person.

I have had covid and it was from a person not a surface.

However, the most amazing thing I've ever read on here was someone was putting their post into the oven at 90 degrees for ten minutes before opening it.

However, the most amazing thing I've ever read on here was someone was putting their post into the oven at 90 degrees for ten minutes before opening it.

Jesus! Might not catch covid vs a strong chance of burning down your house!