MotorVation said:
I don't see it getting better anytime soon, but in my opinion, grocery stores are hotspots for the spread of this virus. I'm glad Walmart's going to do something about it but it's going to suck.
I have to eat or I wouldn't subject myself to it. I've been trying to get a pickup slot at Wally World but I couldn't wait any longer. Plus, my laundry...never mind, I don't want to get into that. The laundromat I went to was clean. They had a girl wiping everything down
Re the first paragraph, I don't think so ... within limits. As in, you're not going anywhere else, right? And you MUST go to get food, so ... where else could a "hot spot" more likely be.
That doesn't actually make it a hot spot.
I'm working in a supermarket now. We disinfect hourly and are pressed to do so regardless of the usual soul-less corporate concentration on making money at any cost to anyone from customer to employee. In other words, ignore your customer if it is sanitation time. Period.
Additionally, in my department, the deli, we have to wash out hands constantly because we are handling greasy pans etc. as well as breading and deep-frying our most popular item, chicken parts. Wash wash wash, spray spray spray with sanitizer, it never ends. So much so that my hands dry out so much it hurts. Especially to put on those latex gloves. And yeah we not only wash constantly, spray sanitizer both constantly and regularly according to verified schedule, but we wear frequently changed gloves too. g
Cashiers are wearing gloves and constantly spraying sanitizers. We have a full-time cleaner who is usually supplemented by two more full-time cleaners who do nothing but sanitize ... and we are not a big supermarket. How many of you do that in your own homes? Spray down countertops, door knobs, refrigerator handles, any surface a child or (sorry) spacey elder might touch without thinking at all? Touching every orifice and skin surface they can find all the while as if on a holy mission to do so?
I'm guessing some figure approaching 100%.
So yes, a market sees more people than you might, but the standards are so much higher that I doubt all but a tiny percentage of people's safety precautions are remotely in the vicinity.
I think I've already lost a long-time friend over this, so Dear People, be cautious with your paranoia He accuses me of being selfish for returning home after working each day. Meanwhile he has a self-imposed quarantine after traveling out of town and he violates it constantly, visiting us and traveling about town as he pleases, including volunteer work that exposes him to masses of people. His common sense is not high, but his paranoia and ability to point fingers at others is formidable.
Of course, I could never go home and be exposed to family and friends with nowhere near my own level of hygiene personally and professionally. Who's really the risk? All you folks wiping down every surface, I mean. You're doing that, right? I thought so. Maybe I could just die under a rock somewhere? Why not?
Good luck eating if grocery store workers get treated like plague carriers.
My friend sent me an angry text yesterday. I sent him a less insulting one back referencing his own fake self-quarantine. I won't continue the conversation until he comes back to himself.
