sanitising trolleys etc - just in Scotland?

[KingsleyShacklebolt]

Thanks to Nicola, Queen of Covid, we're still living with lots more restrictions here in Scotland to those of you in England. We have masks in indoor spaces, masks in schools, vaccine passports, lots of other things are still online and yet to open up - DS in his first year at Uni and has three in person classes from September - January.

Was in the supermarket earlier and people are still queuing up to pull off the wee squares on blue paper and squirt some stuff on the handles of their trolleys. I have always thought this was completely pointless and have never bothered, but it seems the shops here are unwilling to abandon it.

Are other places in the UK still doing this? What about places held up as paragons of Covid virtue like Spain/France/Germany - are all the shoppers there dutifully wiping their trolley handles?

This is one thing I stopped doing after the first month. It's now been proved it's airborne so I don't worry and just wash my hands after

Still doing it in england and wales. I always do it

they are cleaning underneath the handle though are they? where the fingertips touch

ridiculous giving it just a cursory wipe over...

They still have the cleaning stations at the entrance to supermarkets here. I do give my trolley or basket a wipe but many people don't. Think it's just personal choice now.

It's a choice to wipe the handle or not.
Pretty sure it's a choice for unis whether to operate in person or not, there isn't a rule about this is there?

I don’t bother sanitising my trolley , and I’m not sure that folk continuing to do that has anything to do with Nicola.
But I am very glad for her more cautious approach. Other EU countries are continuing with mask mandates - more strictly than here - and people just get on with it ( unlike all the moaning that goes on here) .
If anything I would prefer stricter rules , and banning of mass events, along with adequate ventilation in schools. I don’t want another lockdown, and I feel so sorry for NHS staff left to cope with the aftermath of the lax approach to public health in this country.

Asda have apparently done this to their trolley handles.

Applying a protective coating to all basket and trolley handles, creating an antimicrobial surface that limits the spread of bacteria and viruses. The same coating technology (Biomaster X shield) is already used to limit the spread of bacteria and viruses in the NHS Nightingale Excel hospital.

I have never done it, as it seems so pointless

It's pointless

The trolley man was wiping handles on Friday as they were returned at our Sainsburys and a reasonable majority of people who went in at the same time as me were also giving them a wipe. I don’t think it makes much difference but it shows people are (thankfully) still being cautious and if it helps keep other infections down it’s all good. Either way, it does no harm so I can’t see why it would be a problem - pre covid, trollies were germ ridden horrors.

On the other hand, I think cleaning touch points could reduce common colds and other bugs so not a bad idea at all. People sneeze into their hand, hand goes straight on trolley, half an hour later your hand goes on the trolley and then you bite your nails or touch your lips.. hardly hard going or difficult, as restrictions go!

I’ve cleaned my trolley handles for years. People are disgusting

I’m in England and I clean the handle if I’m with my kids as they live taking turns in pushing the trolley. It’s air borne, but like many other coronavirus it can live on surfaces and spread that way. So it’s not pointless if you clean the trolley bar/handles and your hands after use.

Why wouldn't you? I'm no germaphobe but people are seriously disgusting.

All this "sanitising" of surfaces is pure covid theatre - covid is transmitted by airborne particles.

I saw someone do this today in England and then proceed to go in without a mask on
Just shows how much the government mixed up the messaging at the start - unless they’re just trying to avoid norovirus.

I do this - and won’t stop for a while yet. I’m well aware it’s airborne but it lives on surfaces so I spray and wipe and then use hand gel. Nothing to do with what Nicola tells me to do.

The unfortunate thing about Norovirus is that hand gel and other things used to fight covid doesn’t work on it!

I do my own trolley , they aren’t being done by staff.

all the groups of people stood close huddling around the sanitising stations waiting for the blue roll......yep,that helps!

@SirChenjins

I do this - and won’t stop for a while yet. I’m well aware it’s airborne but it lives on surfaces so I spray and wipe and then use hand gel. Nothing to do with what Nicola tells me to do.

do you spray and wipe everything you pick up in store too?

must take ages to do a shop

I'm just back from England the Tesco and Sainsbury's we used still had sanitation stations outside, I dont clean my trolley just give my hand a scoot with sanitizer I'm not sure what you are moaning about Nicola sturgeons government decisions or just Nicola .

Yep, I'm still cleaning because people are gross. I'm in Scotland and very glad masks are still mandatory!!

Lots of people in England were wearing masks inside and apparently 11 English councils have brought in their own regulations for schools because they realise covid hasn't gone away !

Wee Jimmy needs help with her health anxiety.