Catching it from surfaces?

[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?

@Fuckadoodledoooo

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!

I believe, that they also put parcels in there as well, I did wonder how many things they bought ended up melting....

I definitely caught it from snogging my OH does that count?! He got it from work- sharing tools etc and not wiping machines down etc. I’ve never wiped shopping down or not taken a package. Cba with all that!

@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 🤷‍♀️

Schools have to wipe all surfaces in between use and everything coming into school so that's probably why your sil does it

@Fiona2020

I definitely caught it from snogging my OH does that count?! He got it from work- sharing tools etc and not wiping machines down etc. I’ve never wiped shopping down or not taken a package. Cba with all that!

Should've wiped him down first then .

I think it is theoretically possible but extremely unlikely. I think I read about a recent case in new zealand where they thought the only possible way of infection was some food packaging that had come in by air. But in the actual distribution centre not the actual shop which would be more unlikely still due to the time taken to get there.

That all being said there is a 'sanitise station' into the supermarket and am quite astonished that I seem to be almost the only person using it. Of course people touch things/put things back all the time in a supermarket. If everyone sanitised their hands as they went in you'd cut the (small) risk hugely, surely. And nobody would need to worry about wiping stuff down after (which I never did).

I worry more about the kids on the playground equipment but just make sure they sanitise hands when they're done.

The Diamond Princess studies were interesting in that respect. Most say that aerosol transmission was much more dominant in that situation and that very swift/early action would have been better to lower the eventual size of the outbreak. I can't find it now but I am sure I remember that there was still a fair amount of fomite evidence found in swabs of the ship some time after it had been evacuated.

www.pnas.org/content/118/8/e2015482118

Hm, from the model linked above. The researchers considered that there would have been big differences before the crackdown of quarantine and after.

"While the average contribution of fomite transmission among acceptable model iterations was estimated to be lower than other the other two pathways, under some specific assumptions or transmission periods (e.g., before passenger quarantine started when people spent considerably more time outdoors), fomite transmission could have been the dominant transmission mode (i.e., long-range airborne transmission is unlikely outdoors)."

New study has found no evidence of contamination in London transport from surfaces, or indeed in the air!

@BigWoollyJumpers

New study has found no evidence of contamination in London transport from surfaces, or indeed in the air!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56110232