I was always a bit skeptical that fomites were a major mechanism of #COVID19 transmission. It didn't stop me from being just as paranoid about handwashing, hand sanitizers, and touching anything with my bare hands as everyone else a year ago.https://twitter.com/bmj_latest/status/1382476314133811209 …
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I guess the key is in the numbers- in some locations such as supermarkets the number of touches could make small probabilities significant in infection risk- wheras inside the home it is probably still an insignificant risk.
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I remember reading that this handwashing paranoia unexpectedly led to a sharp drop in stomach flu cases in Moscow. The effect seemed to amount to "people who neglected washing hands in general started taking it seriously"
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Yeah I was never on the wash down groceries or boxes bandwagon. I was just let it sit untouched for a bit. People giving themselves extra work and anxiety.
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The spraying of the ground & deep cleaning as effective (unproven) strategies

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I vote not paranoid enough. I'm a truck driver, you do not want to know the number of men that use a urinal or toilet then walk out into the store w/o using soap & water or sanitizer. Then they shop, picking things up & putting them back. & this includes traveling families.
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Basically we rolled out all the flu prevention recommendations because we had no idea what to actually tell people; that's the read I get on this.
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does handwashing even help with the flu? wouldn't a mask have always made more sense? I mean for sure handwashing helps for fecal-oral route stuff, but now I'm kinda doubtful about the rest given how quick people were to suggest hand washing for COVID-19.
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I can't get past it. I think once I'm 12 days past 1st Pfizer shot I'l try to let some of it go....
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As we didn’t know what we were dealing with, what would you have suggested?
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