No, I’m not worried about my mental health at all. It’s not exactly a difficult or demanding thing to do, I’ve had to get through some horrendous stuff in my life and putting my shopping in a different room for a few days doesn’t register anywhere on the scale. It is a very simple action I can take to ensure I don’t get it. I have to go into work on a rota with people who have clinically vulnerable people who live with them, I’m not going to be the reason they catch it.
It’s just a really easy thing to do isn’t it? I wash fruit and veg before eating it anyway so it makes no difference if I do it before I put it away or before I eat it (not with disinfectant might I add). There’s a deadly virus about, I don’t think doing something that takes a couple of minutes and hurts no one is a bad thing to do.
Fair enough. To me it’s entirely disproportionate with the likelihood of catching it - it’s like being on the pill, having a vasectomy and using a condom all in one go, but I understand the caution in the circumstances. I do think in general the hysteria and fear around this have normalised disproportionate actions. I find it remarkable and almost Trump-esque that people would ‘wash with disinfectant’ foodstuffs and think that’s the healthy option to take. I think we’re going to see very serious rises in mental health issues through stress and anxiety.
You know that the pill and the condom are both useful for things other than just birth control, right? (I don’t know enough about vasectomies to comment). It could be perfectly reasonable for that combo to exist. I did draw the line at an ex secretly ‘double bagging’ though - seriously, who does that!? Also, I wasn’t washing food with disinfectant. Milk cartons get soap and water, fruit and veg gets water as I’m going to wash them with that after anyway so doing it first can’t hurt anything. If it washes it away good, if it doesn’t I’ve not lost anything and it means I can eat them straight out of the fridge.
'The Old Way' was already causing masses of mental health problems, which is kind of ironic when people desperately want to go back to how things were. A broken political and economic system that puts GDP and the stock market above peoples health and well-being and that of the planet. It was broken. Im not sure how many people realise that, but it was. I realise there's a lot of people losing their job, been locked up without contact, and I wouldnt wish that on anyone, but at the same time I do wonder how many poeple are actually feeling better because of the changes. I'll stick my hand up and say I am. Im fortunate at being able to work from home and I get that, but Ill be honest enough to say my idea of hell is going back to 'how things were'. I love the quiet, I love no commute, I hate tgraffic, noise, lots of people rushing about, being in a busy office with people yapping...........it was making me stressed, anxious and tired. Now I do have two elderly parents who have been a monumental challenge during all this due to their ailments, but despite that (and it's been awful) I still prefer this way of doing things. WMMV.
I am surprised at any time not just in the current climate that shops are allowed to have so many products uncovered. In a supermarket the likes of bread or cakes are generally uncovered on a counter and who knows how many people have coughed/sneezed near them during the day.
You see people in supermarkets and shops sneeze into their hand and then pick up items with the same hand before putting them back on the shelf....
I have seen a child take a bite from a baguette and the dad put in back on the shelf before. We don't disinfect fruit & veg - that just get washed, but milk bottles, butter cartons, juice, etc.
Obviously he knew he was punching above his weight and wanted to make sure you couldn't see his party face....
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11743919/uk-weather-forecast-brits-beach-28c-scorcher-warning-groups/ Durdle Door busy again.
Can't believe no-one has managed to get a joke in about coming back from the shops and washing their nuts. Poor show.
