OK - how do you go shopping? You go to the SM and the virus may be anywhere.
I paraphrase but, when asked about travelling on public transport and holding a pole yesterday, the CMO advised avoiding touching your mouth, face and eyes, and wash your hands when you get home.
As he did not say “don’t go on public transport”, and he did not say “the virus is everywhere”, I interpret that to mean that we can go about our daily lives, but wash hands after being out and so on.
You can get your shopping delivered of course. Some friends of ours have just come back from northern Italy so they’ve been put on ‘precautionary self isolation‘. They had a bit of faff with Sainsbury but got their shopping delivered in the end.
The BBC does give important information like how to wash your hands something that I learned to do at quite an early age, well done BBC some people don't know how to wash their hands so you have done a great service.
Am I the only one who thinks they should have asked the people returning from Northern Italy after half term to self isolate a fortnight ago? They knew it was already a problem then, now it's much too late.
The problem is the same if the shopping is delivered isn't it? IE the pickers touch the products and load selected items into crates. The crates are then touched by a delivery driver who goes from house to house. Actually, a delivery may be a worse scenario might'n't (how many apostrophes there?) it? - as more points of contact on the selected product and more potential sources of infection are visited by the driver who visits the customer.
The point of washing your hands is based on the assumption that you don't know where the virus is - ie assume that it is everywhere - so that's the safe 'just in case' action. That's not trying to panic anyone - but at some point the virus will be spread between us from what we perceive as a non infected source. Things on shelves, cash, door handles, trolley handles - just general contact with an infected source - and then transmitting that to our mouths or eyes etc. But that is no different to how we pass colds and flu between us. Really, the washing thing is just common hygiene isn't it? But no one worries about catching a cold.
Whether it's over the top or not, I think that if you shop (and if you can) - leave the new shopping in quarantine and used old stuff first. The replace old stuff with new stuff days later.
IE:
->SM (or delivery)
->Unpack (or decrate) to a quarantine area
->Store bags used away (mine go away for a week)
->Wash hands
Then:
-> Use 'stuff' from larder or store first (ie known non infected)
-> replenish 'stuff' from quarantine
-> Wash hands
The only bijou snagette at the moment is they don't seem to know how long this particular virus can survive on hard/soft surfaces.
And cold/frozen stuff needs to be thought about - we tend to get milk for a week, so will use the new stuff all but straight away.
I think the thing is use common sense and basic hygiene. But always think.
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As he did not say “don’t go on public transport”, and he did not say “the virus is everywhere”, I interpret that to mean that we can go about our daily lives, but wash hands after being out and so on.
You can get your shopping delivered of course. Some friends of ours have just come back from northern Italy so they’ve been put on ‘precautionary self isolation‘. They had a bit of faff with Sainsbury but got their shopping delivered in the end.