Did I dream it about not deep cleaning your house (Boris)

Deep clean - no!

Weren't we supposed to be using separate bathrooms? (Such a good example of how out of touch our leaders are). Separate houses, maybe?

Seriously, though, taps and door handles, freezer and fridge handles - but most of all, hands!

The advice to clean kitchen work surfaces after shopping flummoxed me. I don't put my shopping on work surfaces, do you?

Post and parcels are picked up with gloves (or hands in two doggie bags) then left aside for two days before opening.

Obviously, frozen/fridge food has to be put away but any other shopping goes in the hall for two days as well.

Anything for/from the fridge or freezer is handled with gloves, too, not left on work surfaces and packaging promptly binned.

I've read that the virus can live for two plus years in a frozen state (very worrying, I do hope it's wrong) so the fridges and freezers here will be getting a deep clean when this is all over!

Whom are you addressing unan?

Last month Boris was a total liar....This week you hang on his every word.

Use your good old fashioned common sense, failing that - Take a basic science lesson online.

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize

So I have been told by a GP re other infections.
COVID19 has been found in the saliva of infected patients.

It seems logical.

I don't see the logic of not sharing toothpaste if I'm sleeping with OH . That's providing that neither of us are showing signs of Covid19 of course.

Used the wrong brackets.

What Callistemon ALL of them? (grin).

Oh, so maybe I didn't dream it

Because the virus can live for days on different surfaces, you may touch the top of the tube, the toothpaste in the tube, with your toothbrush and therefore pass on the virus, Calendargirl. You could be asymptomatic but other people in your household may be more susceptible to the virus.
All your secretions may be infected.

We never share a tube of toothpaste simply because he likes his and I like mine.

I can see the logic in not sharing of course.

And sipping a glass of something nice Laughterlines!
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I can think of better activities than housework any day.

Nah don’t bother. It will only need doing again next year. Spend your time usefully eating creme eggs.

We used to call it ‘bottoming’ a room, and something many of us do at this time anyway is Spring Cleaning. I didn’t realise I was doing a Deep Clean.

I thought it was toothbrushes you shouldn’t share, but it’s something I would never share, even with DH.
Can’t see why toothpaste is unshareable.

Witzend I know what you mean about wearing your reading glasses - I am a fanatical cleaner, always doing something; but only wear my glasses if I am reading. If I do leave them on, I am horrified at all the dust I have missed. Must wear my glasses more often!

I thought I read somewhere (or was I dreaming) that we shouldn't share a tube of toothpaste?

The problem with Boris its a job to understand his speech , as he tends to talk gobbledegook,and his voice does not reach the back of the class so to speak as he is not a clear speaker.
Mick

Why should your house need a deep clean unless someone living there has had COVID19?
I which case I would think you may need professionals in.

I don’t get all this ‘deep clean’ business anyway. I’m sure it used to refer to the sort of completely-disinfecting sort of clean needed in operating theatres, etc. - just not possible in a normal home.

What happened to the good old ‘thorough clean’? (Which in this house - when it happens - means needing to have my glasses on so I can see the dust!)

Think this was the Old Boris speaking last week. New Boris might think it’s a good stay at home therapy.

I must find it im sure I read it!!

Wishful thinking?