Posted on 03/25/2020 11:35:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
You got that box from Amazon, so satisfied that you didn't have to schlep to the store and mingle with the germy people there who might have COVID-19. Now what the heck do you do with the box? Should you touch it? Do you need to gown-up to handle it? How long does coronavirus live on cardboard, anyway?
Yesterday when the Amazon delivery person set the box on my porch I thought wait, I keep hearing that the COVID-19 virus can last on surfaces for hours. So I donned my purple nitrile gloves, which I keep around the house and use for everything, brought my spray bottle with a high concentration of bleach to water, and commenced processing my boxes.
I decontaminated the boxes with my bleach concoction, sprayed the contents, cleaned my gloves with the hand sanitizer I keep outside to put on before I walk into my house (I know, I know), and put the unwrapped objects inside, setting them inside on a hard surface by the door. Next, I crushed the boxes and, after putting the cardboard into my recycle container, used my spray concoction to decontaminated my shoes that I used to crush the boxes.
It turns out I wasn't the only one wondering about this. It felt good to know I'm not being ridiculous. It's only ridiculous if you're not doing it.
The warehouse at the firm where my husband works does pretty much the same thing with each shipment that comes in. There is no human contact whatsoever between delivery person and shipping and receiving. Each box is left by the door by the delivery person and is decontaminated by the masked warehouse guys who gown-up to receive the boxes.
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I have read that UV light kills CoronaVirus in 7-10 minutes. Might want to fact check me on that!
“Ours go into a parcel locker that delivery people and homeowners have keys to.”
That’s handy. Mine are delivered to the front porch. Never had a problem with theft, but leaving them there for several days would be tempting fate.
Well, like most men I usually have small cuts in my hands. Handling a contaminated box and THEN washing your hands? It’s too late, pal!
Spritz it with alcohol if you’re worried.
Let it dry.
If you have a UV light source out it under that for half hour.
I’ve been trying like heck to follow a similar decontamination protocol as the one described. It’s enough to make you crazy! We just have to do our best, and pray.
I met the mailman at my front porch the other day. I handled my door knob with my ungloved left hand and took the mail from him with my gloved right hand.
I went back in the house and closed the door with my ungloved hand.
Much of the mail is junk and was immediately filed in our garbage bin in the kitchen. I opened the bin with my ungloved hand and deposited the junk mail with my gloved hand.
My wife and I then opened the important mail. Each piece was opened being careful not to touch the contents. I then used a pair of clean tongs to pull the contents out and laid them on the table. The envelopes were then put in the garbage.
The process takes only a couple of minutes but I am fairly convinced that we can't get the virus from the mail. That was the goal.
So far we have had only one delivery of groceries and we carried out a similar process. Anything packaged in such a way that the packaging can be discarded is handled that way. Some items are airing out on a bed in a spare bedroom. One such item is a box of breakfast cereal. When needed the box will be considered contaminated and the contents will be carefully repackaged.
The grocery delivery came in a plastic bag. That bag was put in the garbage. Any boxes that arrive are assumed contaminated and dumped. Plastic bags and cardboard boxes have too little value to bother with them.
Just think about the money we all use day in and day out. GERMS GERMS GERMS.
People are losing their minds.
I wish people would remember that we drank from garden hoses, we ate fruit and veggies straight from the garden, and we rode bikes without helmets...we ran all over the place and lived in smoked filled houses most of our young lives....
the presence of germs does not mean contagion...
I truly hope that once this is over we don’t turn into a nation of germophobes cowering under tables in the fetal position.
This is a 100 year event, people. They happen....oh, every 100 years or so.
Nothing tasted better than water from a garden hose.
Perhaps. Please read my posting above and suggest a better process.
I spray my mail, mailbox and any packages as well as any money that I handle
“Open the stupid box, put everything away and wash your hands.”
A voice of reason! Be careful, we are all supposed to be in a state of utter & uncontrolled panic......
and the lack of germs does not mean we can get out of this life alive
IOW; if you drink you’re gonna die
But if you don’t drink you’re gonna die.
So why die thirsty !!
I used latex gloves to pick up my two boxes and then wiped them down before opening. I told the local folks it was not about them but about all the places these boxes were before it got to them that concerned me.
That was “an abundance of caution” but I am careful about anything right now that comes inside my home.
I bought some oranges at the store and I wiped those down too when I brought them home (I’m not eating the peel anyway). Call me a nut but I’m still healthy.
I ordered a UV wand through Amazon, it’s sitting on my porch and I’m concerned about opening the box...so I ordered another one so I could decontaminate the first box, but then it came, and I thought...uh oh...
Heh.
Perfect justice if the thief gets the virus.
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