@CelticCrafter wrote:
After all these weeks I don't understand what people are cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting.
Yes, I know that there are still some people that need to go out to work every day but there isn't a lot of stores open and how are the germs getting in the house if nothing is coming in and no one is having visitors.
My mom lives alone and I try to only be in her home once every few weeks to prepare her medication and pay her bills, So technically she is at the very lowest risk, as I do her shopping, sanitize the items before she takes them in. I pick up her garbage so she doesn't have to handle the trash can after the trash people collect. But she does get her own mail, lets it sit on a porch for a day before opening, and takes in her own packages to the front porch and leaves them sit for a day before opening.
Even though that is the bulk of her interaction, she should still be sanitizing after getting the mail and packages in and touching the door handles, faucets etc. then again after she opens those things a day or two later, and of course when I come in and leave.
I don't think a lot of people realize how many people's lives are no different than before this (as far as working and going outside the home). Most every one I know is still working, and everyone in my immediate family is still going out to their jobs as secondary essential workers.
I'm sanitizing like crazy, because my husband is out in the workplace daily (UPS), and comes in contact with lots of people who are in contact with lots of other people. UPS drivers don't just drop and run, many are in businesses for large pickups, and all employees are exposed to packages from all over the world.
I have friends who are still working, ordering food every day from restaurants, and going into many stores every day because they are bored, just to get out. I was in the grocery last week, and I couldn't believe the number of kids and babies, no face coverings, running all over. So even a trip to the store is a chance to bring the virus home. The first few weeks of our stay at home order the roads and the few open places were dead (except for groceries), and with each passing week, I see more and more people out and about.
Because of these things, I believe sanitizing and disinfecting are more important now, and will be more so as they start to ease restrictions and people get back to a more normal existence and mixing together even more.
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