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In reply to the discussion: What's the protocol for making a trip to the grocery? [View all]brush
(53,776 posts)67. Yep, don't listen to that idiot, it's been reported the virus...
can last for ours on surfaces.
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Ditto, idiot, be first to enter store when it opens, they clean at night and air has been exchanged
Baclava
Mar 2020
#11
I saw a guy with a gas mask on at Trader Joe's. Looked kinda WW II -ish style, but then again
diva77
Mar 2020
#65
Here's the glove removal technique from the CDC, for anyone who's interested:
NYC Liberal
Mar 2020
#56
Do whatever makes sense. Any thing is better than nothing. Don't touch face was your hands.
gibraltar72
Mar 2020
#3
The virus doesn't stay in the air. It falls from the air and lands on surfaces, including on humans
pnwmom
Mar 2020
#4
studies have shown that the virus is suspended in the air for up to three hours
Demonaut
Mar 2020
#10
Yeah, so? The store employee said that gloves wouldn't help because it's only in the air. nt
pnwmom
Mar 2020
#12
No, he was wrong, period. Just because a virus is airborne for a time doesn't mean
pnwmom
Mar 2020
#59
?, he was right about it being airborne, wrong to think gloves don't offer protection
Demonaut
Mar 2020
#70
It doesn't stay in the air -- in the cases where it becomes airborne, it only lasts in the air
pnwmom
Mar 2020
#76
about gloves, keeps stuff off your skin. but stuff on the gloves spreads to everything
msongs
Mar 2020
#5
It persists on surfaces longer than the droplets last in the air (they settle, slowly & irregularly)
RockRaven
Mar 2020
#6
Gloves are better than no gloves, even if masks aren't available. That said, as you shop
RockRaven
Mar 2020
#40
And yet most research shows it isn't likely transmitted in air, and not by air, except when highly
emmaverybo
Mar 2020
#41
The point of gloves- it's much easier to remove and dispose of gloves than it is to wash your hands.
PoliticAverse
Mar 2020
#16
Went to a Wegman's Grocery store today. At the entrance, where all the carts are,
Marie Marie
Mar 2020
#46