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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“Open the stupid box, put everything away and wash your hands”
Yep, very little of what we have been ordering is coming in less than than three days . So I’m not to worried about what is inside. Our packages are regulated to the top of one particular bar stool, opened, contents put away, boxes go directly out to the recycle bin. Wash hands scissors and Lysol the bar stool.
Amazon’s COVID-19 blog: How we are supporting our employees, customers, and communities
Insights welcome.
Doesn’t Amazon actually have drones to pick up your order and place it in the box? Then it’s wrapped on an assembly line so it’s all automated, right?
Or are “drones” what they call their warehouse people?
As tempting as it always is, do not pop bubble wrap. Most of that is made in China, so those bubbles are full of Chinese air!
“you could write a comedy skit about someone taking it so far that are unable to do anything except wash their hands and sanitize objects all day.”
I know of someone just like that before the China Virus thing. Almost to the point of being a Howard Hughes.
The funny part is she likes dining out, and will wipe down the menu before reading. The whole time she’s there she does not realize how nasty the server and cooks could potentially be. Things falling from a nose, unwashed hands touching food, body hairs, coughing, etc etc.
As a young man in Arlington, VA my girl friend and I used to love the scrambled eggs at a place called Tuddle House. That is until we watched the cook with snot draining from both nostrils falling onto the frying griddle.
Use bleach instead of water to make your coffee. If you still get sick, you can cure yourself with fish tank cleaner.
EXTREME SARCASM!
Has ANYONE actually gotten sick from an Amazon package?
I, too, love Costa Rican coffee. I order mine from Boca Java. It is wonderful. No Folger’s or Maxwell House for me!
“Has ANYONE actually gotten sick from an Amazon package?”
If they have, it would be virtually impossible to know if that was the source.
...every human body contains bacteria and viruses.
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Not only that, but there are streams of bacteria and viruses that ride the jet stream and, presumably, fall out at random, everywhere.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/01/microbes-survive-and-maybe-thrive-high-atmosphere
(one link among several)
Also, one major virus vector is ducks. This is a busy season on the flyway. One can assume they defecate en route. I live across the road from one of their major destinations. DH is down there daily to photograph the returnees.
For another freakout, my area has many small hog operations. We all know viruses that infect avian and swine hosts can combine, mutate and become new organisms.
We humans evolved on this planet and while viruses mutate and novel strains, some of them virulent, arise at various times, we have brains to help us cope by inventing treatments and ultimately, cures. In the long run, enough of us catch the disease and survive, creating herd immunity.
We developed immune systems for a reason.
But, yeah. Keep it on the down low or people will start squirting Lysol up their noses. Or worse.
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure?
Received a package from Amazon today.. Using plastic gloves I put it on the garage where it will sit for months.. unless there is a power outage and I need it to charge my phone.
Yep! Water in general used to taste so sweet.
I’m pretty sure you really want UV-C for decontamination, and that it is at least somewhat bad for your eyes, or for prolonged exposure to skin.
The ones I’ve seen are made to be put in your a/c plenum, near the coils, and kill fungus and mold that builds up from the water collecting in the summer. They would also tend to kill the bugs in the air, over time.
Received a package today. Opened it, put cool new stuff away, threw box in trash, washed hands, moved on with my life.
We open the box on the porch, take the stuff out, leave the box on the porch until the neighbors complain or some high wind blows them away, and then throw them into our recycling.
Then wash our hands. We have paper towels outside to use to open the doors, and everybody who goes out anywhere is required to use the paper towels on the door knobs, and go straight to the sink and wash up, using the paper towel to turn on the faucet, then they can dry with the paper towel and throw it away.
It's not what prolly pop'ed into your brain at first...
So, I shouldn’t bother using my blacklight still in its cardboard box from decades ago? I had a feeling it wasn’t the proper kind to kill viruses. Darn it!
Had a magic loogey smack me right in the eye...from a dude with MRSA....
I'm in the HC biz...
I can tell you the magic loogey story some time...
“Yep! Water in general used to taste so sweet.”
As did so many other things before I got old.
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