10 Things You’ll Never Bring Inside Your Home Again After the Pandemic Is Over

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Take-out containers

You might want to refrain yourself from opening takeout containers in your kitchen, next time you order something from your favorite spot. According to Patel, they are not major sources of transmission but “plastic bags and food storage containers… come in contact with many people”. If any of the restaurant staff have the virus, they could pass it on to you via the containers or silverware packs. The coronavirus can stay on plastic surfaces for up to seven days, so, you definitely don’t want plastic takeout containers something in your house!

Greeting cards

You might be tempted to send someone you haven’t seen in awhile a nice greeting card to show you’re thinking of them. Or receive one yourself from your friends or family. But before you accept it into your home, you should know that the coronavirus can survive on paper for three hours. Instead of choosing the traditional greeting cards, save the plane, your friends, family and yourself and use e-cards, text messages, or Skype calls.

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28 thoughts on “10 Things You’ll Never Bring Inside Your Home Again After the Pandemic Is Over”

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    i get it….used clothes. However, some of this is overkill. Gift baskets and greeting cards? Please. this is why folks are paranoid and walking in fear. Wash your hands regularly and sanitize/disinfect your belongings. That will take care of things.

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      I agree. At that rate, we will be putting whole industries out of work. People need to not take unnecessary risk but, soon we won’t be able to touch anything at all.

    2. Raquel Salientes

      I agree with you Michelle. Used clothes can be sanitized with Clorox; a new product has been introduced that will sanitize clothes against the corona virus. If they’re so paranoid about everything that comes from the outside, they should stay clear of pharmacies and grocery stores. Pharmacies are where people go to buy medicines when they are sick. Can you imagine how many people have handled the produce and canned goods that are stocked in grocery stores? Horrors!!

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    Does all this make no difference if we are vaccinated for the virus? Can we then do everything we used to do without fear of getting sick?

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    This is a hoot…I haven’t changed my life at all since the “pandemic”…I don’t avoid these now and don’t plan to do so either.

  4. 37

    Not like the virus can live so long on something that you can’t just set it aside somewhere and then tend to it in a few hours or days. There is still so much in terms of supplies that we will need take in our homes for our mere survival. Just deal with it all appropriately and wash your hands!

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      Has no one even considered that packages/cardboard boxes left on your doorstep are out in the sun (generally) and that UV radiation…ie sunlight KILLS this virus in a matter of minutes? That walking around outside in the sunlight and fresh air WITHOUT A MASK is actually healthier than being shut indoors? People need to educate themselves and stop listening to the scaremongering and propaganda by the so-called “experts”.

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        They Said in the very beginning of the pandemic that hot weather would make it go away and that did not come to fruition. It actually spiked during summer as well.. There is no proof that the sunlight is going to kill anything yet. So don’t be careless

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    very shortsighted. most of these changes are for the better.
    the only thing we will be proud to leave behind is called Trump.

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        Scientists brought the viruses out in record time, not tRump. How do you like that tRump administration vaccine rollout. Going great isn’t it?

    1. Martha Jeneane Horn
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      The Trump that revived the economy? The Trump that signed a bipartisan bill that provides more than $250 million a year to the nation’s black colleges? His pushing the development of coronavirus vaccines within a year of the pandemic’s beginning? The Trump that negotiated a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports? The Trump who moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem? Hmmm. . . . .

  6. I can understand that there is MUCH that is unknown about the viruxs. What I don,t understand are the people who make “absolute” statements indicating that THEY DO!
    I just read a study by THE United Nations “World Health Organization”, which consists of leading scientists worldwide, that presents newer facts that contradict MANY of the assertions that HAVE BEEN MADE!
    For just ONE example, the WHO’s data documents that the immediate personal “safety zone” is “12 FEET, 10 INCHES!” NOT 6 FEET!
    TAKE YOUR PICK IF YOU WANT… IT’S YOUR LIFE. (IF YOU BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE…..)

  7. What’s the difference – used items or new items that have been touched by others? Get your groceries delivered? Well, someone had to pick them up and get them ready and then bring them to you! Do you sterilize them before you touch them or let them into your home?

  8. It’s quite clear from some of these comments that the pandemic has taught people very little about hygiene. There’s no need to wonder why it is an over yet.

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