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Just wondering if there have been many Covid cases reported from doing the following actions.
1. Getting a take out coffee/ice cream cone.
2. Going to the supermarket.
3. Getting a take out meal.
4. Eating cold meats/unwrapped bread/eating fruit/raw vegetables.
5. Touching surfaces.
6. Walking outdoors.
7. Handling currency.
8. Opening post.
9. Walking in my home with my street shoes.
10. Using public transport.
Infections happen due to the inhalation of exhaled droplets from an infected person.Just wondering if there have been many Covid cases reported from doing the following actions.
1. Getting a take out coffee/ice cream cone.
2. Going to the supermarket.
3. Getting a take out meal.
4. Eating cold meats/unwrapped bread/eating fruit/raw vegetables.
5. Touching surfaces.
6. Walking outdoors.
7. Handling currency.
8. Opening post.
9. Walking in my home with my street shoes.
10. Using public transport.
While the chances of getting infected from surface contact is very low the chances of being infected from surfaces like paper, which adsorb water and so break down droplets, is just about non-existent.Lots of dangerous incidents that we're never warned about at all. The local sorting office/building for letters parcels had to be temporarily closed recently because of an outbreak, 2nd one we were later informed. After 1 day it was opened again and everything delivered in through everyone's letter box with no warnings or information whatsoever. I can assure you there were lots of infections resulting from this but can I give a link to that? No. Do I clean/wipe envelopes, packages now as a result? I certainly do. By the way, it was our local postman who informed me but it wasn't policy and he wasn't told to do so. Thankfully, we know him well. How much of this type of incident is happening in all type of activity? A hell of a lot I would imagine.
Given that mask wearing is required on public transport and in shops and there's a very low chance of getting infected from touching things I suspect that transmission wise the things on your list are statistically inconsequential.Just wondering if there have been many Covid cases reported from doing the following actions.
1. Getting a take out coffee/ice cream cone.
2. Going to the supermarket.
3. Getting a take out meal.
4. Eating cold meats/unwrapped bread/eating fruit/raw vegetables.
5. Touching surfaces.
6. Walking outdoors.
7. Handling currency.
8. Opening post.
9. Walking in my home with my street shoes.
10. Using public transport.
Well you can't catch covid from eating an infected item as it gets broken down in your digestive system.I have a thing about envelopes and stamps on envelopes that might have been licked. I just can't buy unwrapped bread or cold meats. In fact when I see hand rolled "roulade" being advertised, I avoid it like the proverbial.
The very same postmen/women in the sorting offices that were closed, the ones who handle all letters, etc are the people infected and you're telling me there's almost no chance of infection from what they've handled and God only knows what their hands were rubbing on, eg, mouth, nostrils, eyes, Thanks Purple, but i'm wiping the envelopes. As for fresh fruit? It would help to change some peoples opinions if they stood back and watched what's happening in the fruit/veg departments in Supermarkets.While the chances of getting infected from surface contact is very low the chances of being infected from surfaces like paper, which adsorb water and so break down droplets, is just about non-existent.
You certainly shouldn't bother wiping your post unless you suspect the postman is licking it before he puts it through your door.
Yes, that's exactly what I'll telling you, because it is demonstrably true.The very same postmen/women in the sorting offices that were closed, the ones who handle all letters, etc are the people infected and you're telling me there's almost no chance of infection from what they've handled
Just been told that the actual post office that's attached to the sorting centre is now closed down for a week from this morning.
Just wondering if there have been many Covid cases reported from doing the following actions.
1. Getting a take out coffee/ice cream cone.
2. Going to the supermarket.
3. Getting a take out meal.
4. Eating cold meats/unwrapped bread/eating fruit/raw vegetables.
5. Touching surfaces.
6. Walking outdoors.
7. Handling currency.
8. Opening post.
9. Walking in my home with my street shoes.
10. Using public transport.
There was misinformation deliberately spread by China in the early stages of the pandemic that led to this and was accepted hook line and sinker too readily over here.Back in February last year there was repeated advise not to touch one’s face. This advice we never hear of anymore, presumably because it’s almost impossible.
As we were short on masks, we didn't want to use them in situations where they may not have been needed.
Supply was definitely framing the advice, as well as the idea that if fomite transmission was a big threat that for people to use masks as PPE they needed to use them with medical level training.Yes, seems the WHO advice not to use use masks was based on supply rather health advice.
Having said that, I remember watching Prime Time last April or May and an Irish expert adamant on following WHO advice and a very smug Czech expert claiming their low death and cases rate could be attributed to their mass usage of masks in the early days of the pandemic.
Fast forward to today and the Czech Republic has a death rate worse than the U.K. and the U.S.A.
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