To be fair this is a good idea underdeveloped countries as canned drinks in storage are usually contaminated externally with rat shit.
This is true of warehouses everywhere, not just ones in underdeveloped countries. Developed countries just usually have a higher turnover and distribution closer to production sources, so they sit in storage for less time.
My neighbor died. My 34-year-old coworker died. Those early days of COVID were fucking terrifying.
I tended to get every flu and every diarrhoea even before the pandemic. One day I decided to wash my hands thoroughly after shopping. Then came the pandemic. I am not making this up but I haven't had any sickness for eighth years. No flu, no diarrhoea. I didn't even catch COVID. Just because I started washing my hands a bit more often, around half a dozen times a day.
The eight years since the pandemic really have flown by...
He didn't say he started with COVID, he started 'and then came the pandemic'.
That's because people are generally disgusting. I'd have to guess that if you talked to basically edit: ~~anyone~~ any scientist about the best way to reduce illness of any sort, they'd say "just wash your hands properly."
You never take public transport or interact with kids?
"why not just wipe them with disinfectant wipes?"
"oh, you sweet summer child"
Ugh, I bought 100% alcohol by the gallon and made my own 70% disinfectant spray cause it was easier for me to source a full gallon of industrial alcohol than get a package of Clorox wipes.
I almost forgot that shit!
Do I get any credit for never having done this?
It depends... Did you wear a mask at the store? And have you ever taken Horse Dewormer?
Oh god I forgot about the weirdos and the fucking horse dewormer 🤣
Some of them still take it when they get sick
Sadly, no it won't. Because we've royally fucked over the planet for ourselves and things like this will only become more common. Not necessarily exactly this picture, but the age of crisis is well upon us and will only get worse from here. Your grandkids will understand because they're in for much worse.
Maybe we've reached the conclusion of the Fermi paradox. Only that WE won't be sending anything out there anymore.
I think I'm going to continue washing apples, cucumbers, things like that.
I was a farmer; you should. Especially potatoes and fruit.
I was doing it before COVID. I don't know who's hands have touched it or where those hands had been prior to touching it. I'm not gonna get fucked up by Typhoid Mary picking her ass and then touching something I plan to eat.
I have no idea what's going on in this photo.
Washing groceries to avoid getting covid
Which was always overkill because Covid doesn't really transmit by touching contaminated surfaces like the flu does.
But we didn't know that at first. Even the experts had no clue how it transmitted and had to just be like "assume it spreads in all the ways until we can figure out how it spreads." And then of course once they knew people needed to mask, they told people not to mask for a good while. At least in the U.S..
The logic was "medical workers need masks more than anyone else, so we have to tell everyone not to mask to save our reserves of masks." But they didn't say "don't mask to save reserves for medical workers." They said "you don't need to mask." (Fauci himself was saying this knowing full well people needed to mask.)
Ironic that whoever is washing the Pepsi and Cheetos has a much higher risk of dying from heart disease than COVID.
Is this not a healthy breakfast?
Before covid some groceries (mostly fruits/vegetables) lasted 1 week or a little more. After that sometimes 2 or more, just today I cut a pineapple that it's 3 weeks old. I'm going to keep washing them.
And it's really nice to just open the fridge and just bite the apple w/o needing to wash it (again).
I watched a documentary on DWTV about a similiar phenomena in Germany. There was a specific sort of bread, a cheap one, which stood fresh for two weeks if packed well. During the pandemic it suddenly stood fresh for NINE MONTHS. The finder of that bread was some sort of forensic specialist and because during the pandemic crime pretty much vanished he had too much time and explored that phenomena.
So, did they put more chemicals into the bread to keep it more fresh?
Actually, no. wholemeal bread stays due to the acid produced by the leavening during baking which is a natural process. Actually ALL bread stays in theory fresh "forever".
But. If it gets contaminated with fungus spores then those can slowly break up acids in the bread. Well, the final verdict was: Before the pandemic most bakers were so fucking dirty and contaminated that they pretty much only delivered fungus-contaminated bread. During the pandemic though the bakers were required to sanitize their work space and themselves a lot more thorough. And that made the bread free of fungus.
The forensic specialist has kept another bread for over three years now. It is as fresh as the first day. No chemicals involved, just wrapped airtight into a plastic foil.
Glad to know we only get fungal bread
The dark days of instacarting groceries and having everything smell like the inside of a smokers car
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