Anyone willing to admit that they aren't disinfecting

[Deleted]

everything in sight, washing cash, even spraying the bottoms of their shoes before entering the house? DD gets the mail and brings it in the house without disinfecting it. She buys groceries and doesn't disinfect the packaging and leave it outside for a day.

I'm not. If I sit outside and take a glass of tea out with me, I'm not wiping the glass down every time I take a drink. Produce gets washed, but it always has been. Housekeeping chores are still housekeeping chores as I've always done them. The kitchen and bathroom are cleaned more often, countertops wiped down with disinfectant wipes, and my hands are getting washed more often with closer attention to my nails. I've always poured a little bleach in the toilet tank after cleaning the toilet so there's no change there.

No, I'm not obsessive about wiping down the interior of the car, either.

In short, there's nothing much new here. We're probably doomed.

[Deleted]

I'm not. I haven't disinfected a thing. 

I shop when I need to. I wash my hands when I get home. I keep a clean house and kitchen. I don't wash clothing because I wore it for 5 minutes at the post office or whatever.

I see no point in washing down my groceries, mail, or any of that crazy crap. Your chances of dying from your Amazon box has got to be minuscule. I'll risk it.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

I don't wipe down the car or everything I touch either, I don't strip down and wash all my clothes/take a shower as soon as I walk in the door. 

The ship has sailed as far as work goes because we're all on top of each other and not required to wear masks so even if I walk into the house butt naked after washing myself down with Lysol if I'm infected I'm already infected. 

I do disinfect the entire cart like I would here at work, not just the handle and I do the same before I leave the store.   The groceries themselves though get put away as soon as I get home just like they always have.

When I am at the business I do a lot more because I am moving between so many different people.   I wash my hands after as many transactions as possible and use hand sanitizer when I can't get all the way back to the sink.  I wipe down the counter, the door handles etc between customers.   

So we're probably doomed too.   We are in good health otherwise so the odds of us getting it from my clothes, take out or groceries are extremely slim.  

[Lizard Queen]

I'm not, but I'm not sure I count because I have so little contact with the outside world now. Groceries are being disinfected. I grab the mail, and then wash my hands. I actually Lysol lightswitches and doorknobs now, but only if someone who's been out of the house has been in contact with it recently. Otherwise, no. I've never been a hand sanitizer user. I used it a few times yesterday after dropping by the office to grab stuff, but otherwise I never use it. Didn't think about my shoes, but since my DH started wearing shoes in the house to work out in, I made him segregate indoor and outdoor shoes. Well, I didn't make him, but expressed my displeasure when he would put them on my couch and (white) comforter! 😡

[Deleted]

I don't.  I'm not even all that great about hand washing when I'm at home, because I figure it's a "safe place", plus all three of us have our own bathrooms, but when I go into the plant I'm more careful.  There are hand sanitizers everywhere, and I use them frequently.  I'm not worried about the mail or groceries either.

[Deleted]

The gazillion articles on my MSN homepage make it sound like I'm risking the lives of my loved ones if I don't do all that stuff. Glad I'm not the only one.

[wvugurl26]

I use hand sanitizer when I get back in the car from an errand. I wash my hands when I get home. If I go out to walk or something I wash my hands when I come back in.

I yell at my DH to not put packages onto the kitchen table. I don't wipe them down. I do wash my hands after opening them and putting the contents wherever they belong.

The kitchen counters get cleaned as normal. I thought about wiping down the doorknobs especially in the entry way but I didn't get any further than thinking about it.

I bought a new container several weeks ago to hold my extra flour, sugar and baking supplies. That I did wipe down and let air dry before I filled it up.

I need to give DH a hand sanitizer bottle for his car. He goes out way more than I do.

[Deleted]

I have been taking a grocery cart from the ones sitting out in the sunshine. Yesterday, the news was talking about how direct sunlight kills it. So, perhaps I will continue that.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

It depends, if you are living with someone who is immune compromised it's probably best.    We have an immune compromised customer that only myself, dad or my brother's girlfriend who carries a license in sterile technique handle is pizza.  We make him stay in the car when he comes to get it.   He is one of the people who could possibly get it from the pizza box.    We are not going to ban him from coming that is his choice but we do try to limit exposure risk as much as we can.

I do use hand sanitizer more.  I have some in my car that I squirt on my hands after grocery shopping or receiving my take out bag.   

[jelloshots4all]

I'm doing very little extra.  I'm under 50 and have been stuck in the house with my 16 yr old son for 7 weeks.  We rarely leave.  I order off amazon, have groceries delivered (don't wipe down plastic bags, or boxes), we order takeout and I don't wipe down the cartons.  I'm lazy and only go out to my mailbox on Sundays (cuz I know most of it is junk), so it's sat in my mailbox for up to a week-no sanitizing.

Regular cleaning.  If I do go out I use Clorox wipes for the shopping cart handle and then use hand sanitizer when I get in my car.  My car could use a good cleaning, but that has nothing to do with CV19

I feel like the bubble boy!  Luckily the weather is getting nicer so I can open up more windows.  Then I'll probably have to worry about the killer hornets

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

I don't do much at home unless I have blown my nose or sneezed. I blow my nose a lot, since I have chronic congestion. At the grocery store they have an employee in the cart area that wipes carts down for people to use. They have hand sanitizer at the entrances, which I use when I enter the store and again when I leave. I don't do anything to the car, mail groceries, etc. When I am looking for produce, I grab a produce bag to put on my hand if I am going to need to test squeeze for ripeness so any germs I might have will hopefully not be transferred. I wash hands when I get home. Otherwise it is business & cleaning as usual. 

[swamp]

May 7, 2020 13:34:54 GMT -5 wvugurl26 said:

I use hand sanitizer when I get back in the car from an errand. I wash my hands when I get home. If I go out to walk or something I wash my hands when I come back in.

I yell at my DH to not put packages onto the kitchen table. I don't wipe them down. I do wash my hands after opening them and putting the contents wherever they belong.

The kitchen counters get cleaned as normal. I thought about wiping down the doorknobs especially in the entry way but I didn't get any further than thinking about it.

All of the above, plus I wipe down the door handle at my office when I come in.    I also wipe off the copier, computers and phones once a day.   

[countrygirl2]

We let mail set for a day in the garage or floor of the car.

I sanitize groceries as I get them out of the trunk of the car, have water and bleach in the garage sink. I keep sanitizer in the door of the car and I use it.  We had a delivery of DD's mattress, it was sealed in plastic, they took it off and took it with them along with the old one. They are the only people that have been in the house.

DD has been kept in but had to take her to the doc and for an MRI yesterday.  MRI was very careful, we requested to stay in the car till DD went in and we were the last patients at the docs office.

Our county has 2 new 18 today, 72 in the city where we had to go, and where MIL is 132.  The nursing home there has 83 now, wow.


Hubs and I are avoiding places as much as possible, we have masks and use them. Not gloves so much, just using lots of sanitizer.  Just being careful.

[chiver78]

May 7, 2020 13:22:28 GMT -5 @shastasnewlife said:

I'm not. I haven't disinfected a thing. 

I shop when I need to. I wash my hands when I get home. I keep a clean house and kitchen. I don't wash clothing because I wore it for 5 minutes at the post office or whatever.

I see no point in washing down my groceries, mail, or any of that crazy crap. Your chances of dying from your Amazon box has got to be minuscule. I'll risk it.

mostly this. I will wait until I do my errands loop around lunch time to come home and shower, change my clothes for the day. that's not over the top, IMHO, since I'd be changing my clothes daily anyway.     I figure *if* I picked up this virus somewhere, it was during the move push. I'll know I'm clear in a couple weeks, I would guess. 

the homeowner at this rental, however, is an ER nurse in the nearest city. so we are all a bit cautious in what we do. 

[pooks]

At some point I read that the virus dies on cardboard in 24 hrs and plastic in 72 hrs.  So we have used that rule.  Even though I know it is low risk, boxes sit in garage for at least a day before they are opened.  

With groceries, I have been doing online ordering and pick up.  The bags come in and all sit in the same section of floor.  I put the stuff away and we don't touch it for 24 hrs.  Plastic gets disinfected, if I am going to handle it within 72 hours.  Then wash my hands really well, disinfect the section of floor where the bags sat, and disinfect every handle I touched. 

We are a no shoes house, so shoes come off at the door.  I haven't increased my regular cleaning.  If no one in my house is sick or socializing with anyone, I don't see the point. 

[finnime]

Based in part on this article: Is the virus on my clothes? I do very little beyond keeping my hands clean every time I leave a store or enter the house, and wearing a mask. I also am very careful about distancing from others when I'm in public. No cleaning shoes, or washing clothes just because I wore them to a store, or taking several showers a day. I do keep my kitchen and bath clean but that's because otherwise is gross.

[flamingo]

This is my new favorite thread! I'm not doing this. I use hand sanitizer more frequently when I'm out, but I'm not really going anywhere that means I'm inside near people. I WFH for the foreseeable future, my DH does the grocery shopping. I've been to Target 2x since this started and I wipe the cart down if they have wipes, otherwise i just keep using hand sanitizer. My DH swears he wipes the groceries as he bags them at the store, so whatever, that's good enough for me.

We're not super high risk, and while my handwashing and hand sanitizing has increased, I'm not being overly obsessive about it. We clean as (ir)regularly as we used to and it's just us in our place. No one else ever comes in. I'm not wiping down my car or my credit cards or anything. My anxiety is through the roof about a million things most of the time these days, I'm not adding more to it.

[grumpyhermit]

I was a bit Howard Hughes in the beginning, but I am WAY more lax about everything now. I just couldn't sustain that threat level for long. I think part of the decrease in hyper paranoia has also coincided with more becoming known about the virus.

Also I'm lazy and I just can't take 45 minutes to clean, unpack, and clean again every time I get a delivery. I do still wash down my produce before putting it in the fridge, but have stopped wiping down food packaging. I throw all my little food kit things in a bin in the fridge and just kinda figure it will be safe by the time I get around to cooking with it. I wash down counters and stuff after prepping.

I do still wash my hands if I contact anything outside (mailbox, doorknobs, etc.) or packaging materials.

[Anne_in_VA]

I’m doing a lot more sanitizing than ever before.  I wipe down the kitchen counters and sink with wipes.  I even go around the house a few times a day and sanitize most things we’ve touched with Lysol wipes.  After I’ve been out I wash my hands, wash my cotton face mask and my jacket if I’ve been in a store.  I take my shoes off in the garage and put them out in the sun whenever possible.  

All clothes are washed on the sanitize cycle and dried in the dryer.  DH is working some extremely long hours and has had to go onboard some ships on the Naval Base, so he leaves his clothes in the garage when he comes home and takes a shower right away.  I have to do most of the grocery shopping, so I take more precautions than I normally would.  

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Guilty.  Disinfecting squat.

I just bought a canister of wipes last week.  We own no hand sanitizer, nor have we ever purchased it.  I wash m6 hands leaving the bathroom, and before I start cooking but that’s it.  The bathroom gets cleaned weekly, as usual.  I wipe down the counters in the kitchen after dinner, do not sanitize anything.  

8 do wipe down th3 grocery cart when I’m out, but then realized that that’s stupid as the first time I pick up food and put it in the cart, I just possibly contaminated the handle.   Guess it avoids someone else’s microbes, but how do 8 know what food has been touched?  

[justme]

I wipe down the car where I touch. I wipe down my phone if I ever use it when I'm out and about as well as my water bottle. But I don't wipe down everything I bring in. A lot depends on if I have a wipe out for my phone I'm going to wipe some other stuff stuff too cuz might as well. 

[souldoubt]

We've ordered takeout every week from local restaurants, I go to the store a few times a week because we get different things from different stores, we have 5 gallon water bottles delivered to the house and have ordered various amazon/other items that have been delivered.  The only thing I've wiped down are the water bottles when they get delivered then they're moved to the pantry and the first of them doesn't end up on the dispenser for about a week.  I do make it a point to throw away takeout and delivery item boxes/trash which I normally do but in the current situation I do it after we eat or open the package.  We wipe down with disinfectant wipes or cleaners as much as we did before.  My wife is the type who loads up when stuff is on sale before we need it and some months back I didn't realize she moved the wipes she bought so I bought more thinking we were out.  The end result is that we're not running out of them any time soon and by the time we need some it sounds like the shortage will have been addressed.  I'm not trying to do anything to increase my chances or put anyone else at risk but I also haven't changed what we're doing at home or how much I wash my hands as I do it quite often. 

[jelloshots4all]

Someone on FB posted a picture and said if you know what this is, you are immune to corona virus.  I wish I knew how to post pix!

It was one of those big metal cloth rolling hand towels in all public bathrooms.  

[tractor]

I don’t even wear a mask...not wiping everything down is probably the least of my worries.

[azucena]

May 7, 2020 15:32:01 GMT -5 tractor said:

I don’t even wear a mask...not wiping everything down is probably the least of my worries.

Help me understand why not please.

[thyme4change]

I can't even get the dishes done, I sure as hell am not washing a bottle of ketchup.

[Artemis Windsong]

OT:  I'm one of those people who figured out early on that my H. and I are the only ones in the house. He did the grocery shopping. I went once since I'd been around the house for a month. I do wash my hands more frequently.  We do masks.

I have kept hand sanitizer in the car and use it when I would get back in the car. I have used my shirt or a paper towel to open the car door and doors to toilet rooms if I were out. I carry hand wipe with me in my pocket as well as a tissue. When I handled a menu, I would use the hand wipe afterward. And kept it handy in case I touched the menu again.

Before all this lock down. I was playing billiards with a few friends. They talked about hand washing and nasty places. I showed them my little hand wipe in my pocket. One of them said not all of them sanitize and grabbed it to read. It passed her inspection.

H. said the driving in window for scripts. The person sanitized his hands, took his credit card, ran it, handed his cc back, script and sanitized his hands again. H. sanitized his cc. and hands.

Playing golf, separate golf carts and not handling others clubs or ball. Our group distanced. Others did not. Face to face comparing cards or whatever.

Our distanced patio group had visitors the other night who did not respect our space. One went in for a hug and the down cast eyes were enough rebuff. Energetic, bubbly, H had to find out where they lived. Azhat.

I'm getting crabby so I'll end.

[Deleted]

I'll admit I'm doing the very minimum.  I wear gloves in the grocery store, use hand sanitizer before I open the car door, and stuff like that.  I wash my hands.  But I don't wash my groceries except for produce.  I don't disinfect the mail.

Grocery sacks don't bother me.  They come prepackaged to the store, and the cashier is simply tearing one off.  So it is likely sanitary enough since I watch him/her use hand sanitizer between customers and wipe down  the place where he/she scans the produce.  The packaged stuff usually goes into the cabinet where it will sit for days, weeks, or months before I use it.  I do immediately take out shipping boxes to the garbage, and I let the purchases sit for a few days.  That's mostly being lazy, though.

I do regular cleaning, though, and include door knobs and light switches.  However, unless I am having a worker over, I'm the only one who touches them.  In those cases, I wipe all that stuff down when they leave.

I wash my hands several times a day naturally.  You wash them after going to the bathroom.  You wash them before preparing food or eating.  I wash them after petting Abby.  I wash them more or less when I wash dishes.  

I'm just not paranoid about the virus except for direct contact.  I try to stay 6 feet away.  I only go to the grocery store, gas station (gloves again), or to stand in my DIL/son's driveway.  I did reschedule my dentist appointment that was at the end of the month.  I have to decide about two that I have the first week in June.  It's hard to justify a "wellness" visit when I won't even go after I passed out and hit my head.

[crazycat]

If I go out , which is very rare these days , I wear my mask . I do not wipe everything down . I also do not wipe , disinfect groceries , etc . I guess I’m just too lazy to wipe , disinfect, sterilize anything and everything . 🤷‍♀️

[Deleted]

May 7, 2020 15:33:19 GMT -5 azucena said:

May 7, 2020 15:32:01 GMT -5 tractor said:

I don’t even wear a mask...not wiping everything down is probably the least of my worries.

Help me understand why not please.

I'm not going to wear a mask unless I have to.  I passed out wearing one in line at Costco, and I am still experiencing the consequences of whiplash and hitting my head.  

I did see a "pattern" for making one from an old t-shirt that looks like it might be a single layer.  I may try to make one of those.

Breathing is a necessity.  I am not willing to give that up.