Just follow this - a person delivering junk mail comes to my door - he's sneezed on his hands - he, because my mailbox is stiff, has to use both hands to open my mailbox. Postie comes along wearing gloves an hour later and delivers my post - doing the same two handed manoeuvre - does he now carry the infection on his gloves? Does next door, who also have a letter, also potentially now carry the virus?
Obviously from your comments so far - even you don't trust stuff from outside - as you're being and have been careful with mail. Why are you even bothering to do that, if the postie's gloves have stopped the transmission? So what are the postie's gloves for - to protect you or him?
@steveTu Read my post above, the likelihood of the letter being infected is very very small. It is known that absorbent surfaces are far less likely to transmit than non porous or hard surfaces as it gets trapped in the fibres of paper & card and dries out & dies. There is always a risk but it is tiny. (BTW I spent 42 years working in medical labs and have worked with samples containing viruses including Hepatitis & HIV, I also spent some time at Virus reference lab at central public health so I do have a little knowledge).
Because I am cautious, doesn't mean everyone else is (read back through this thread to the posts about quarantining shopping from the supermarket) - so I repeat, sending 13 million letters just is not sensible - as of those 13 million, 13 million will be touched by multiple people and will come in contact with surfaces that have and don't have the virus. Then of those 13million a proportion will go straight in the bin without being read -even more now as the content is can be largely known anyway - and a proportion will be touched, opened and read without any protocol.
Blinkey blimey - so you're saying all surfaces that are touched by humans are safe? Who runs the mailing run, who preps the machines, who maintains the sorting machines in the post office, who loads the lorries, who packs the mailbag for tranfer to post zones, who loads the planes, the boats the.....who packs the bags that the postie carries, who cleans the postie's gloves between each 'foreign' thing he touches?
Because I am cautious, doesn't mean everyone else is (read back through this thread to the posts about quarantining shopping from the supermarket) - so I repeat, sending 13 million letters just is not sensible - as of those 13 million, 13 million will be touched by multiple people and will come in contact with surfaces that have and don't have the virus. Then of those 13million a proportion will go straight in the bin without being read -even more now as the content is can be largely known anyway - and a proportion will be touched, opened and read without any protocol.
Can you tell me the content of the letter now?
1. Because the risks pertaining to Boris's letter are probably less than other stuff being put through your letterbox, hand-written birthday cards, letters and junk mail delivered by folk who won't have had the training the Postie has had.
2. No I can't ... I've not received it yet of course, and I've not been on the news websites yet today.
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I think you're missing it still Dove. I do handle post with caution - and have. BUT because I have been doing that doesn't mean others are does it? But I quarantine my weekly food shop as well - and if you read back you will see that others don't - just on a small sample here. So out of 13 million letters sent, how many people do you think will just open the letter an read it and take no precaution?
You're second answer wasn't completely true. You could have. You didn't want to. The point again being, that if the papers and 'net' have the content of the letter it is available now. So can you get coronavirus from a web site or a text message (I had a nice one already from the govt)? Can you get it from a TV broadcast or radio broadcast?
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As I said, have you taped your letterbox up?
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1. Because the risks pertaining to Boris's letter are probably less than other stuff being put through your letterbox, hand-written birthday cards, letters and junk mail delivered by folk who won't have had the training the Postie has had.
2. No I can't ... I've not received it yet of course, and I've not been on the news websites yet today.
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