13 supermarket aberrations in times of coronavirus

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13 Aberrations you commit when going to the supermarket in times of coronavirus.

The spread of the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus has radically changed the day-to-day lives of almost every society in the world.

This transformation has also come to one of the most common routines of a home, and of the few allowed in the extension of confinement, go shopping.

To prevent the spread of the disease caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19, you have to take exceptional measures that you never used to follow before. These include: taking gloves to the supermarket, masks, or keeping social distance from the neighbors you used to meet, and discussing how life went before a global pandemic completely changed it.

But sometimes you will commit many carelessness that can endanger your health and that of the people around you.

Here are 13 aberrations to avoid when shopping at the supermarket:

1. Do not make a purchase list and buy more than necessary.

When you go shopping at the Supermarket, it is ideal to bring a shopping list and, if possible, plan the meals you are going to make until you can return.

Normally, you will do it in your usual supermarket, so you will have no difficulty finding food. This way, you avoid wandering, getting in touch with more people, forgetting things you need to buy or put in the cart more than you need and/or touching surfaces and containers that may be infected.

2. Go to the supermarket in rush hour.

It is not only to avoid the long queues that you can find in any of the usual supermarkets, but also the possibility that inside, even if the crowds are restricted, you can coincide with more people than usual.

Right now, intuitively it is difficult to know how empty or full a supermarket can be, but it usually coincides with the usual working hours and openings or closures.

However, you can always use Google Maps, which indicates the usual peak times of each establishment or download the app Where is there a queue?

3. If you are going to buy from a small establishment, do not respect the shifts one by one.

The majority of supermarkets have taken their respective social separation and capacity measures to avoid agglomerations. But, if you are going to buy from a small establishment, you must respect the shifts to enter one at a time whenever possible.

4. Touching your face: both to put on your glasses and out of desperation.

You should avoid touching your face whether you are wearing gloves or not. If you are wearing gloves, if they have touched surfaces that may be infected and you touch your face, the result is the same as if you are not wearing them: you may catch them.

Since you leave home, you must think that anything you touch can be a focus of infection-not obsessing, but taking exceptional measures if necessary.

If you wear glasses, this gesture can be recurring, involuntary, and so you don’t realize it every time you put them on. But the situation requires your attention and if you need it, you can try it with your forearm or by raising your head.

5. Do not wear a mask.

Eighty percent of coronavirus cases reported come from infected people who did not know they were infected, according to a study published in Science. And the incubation period before symptoms appear is an average of 5 days.

This is why it is advisable to wear masks to help contain the coronavirus spread. If you don’t have one, you can make a mask at home by following this step-by-step tutorial, or ultimately use a scarf or scarf.

6. Do not change your gloves when you pick up the fruit or vegetables: ideally, put on the gloves to wear and throw on those you wear from home.

Before the time of the coronavirus, when you went to the supermarket, you’d put on disposable gloves to get the fruits and vegetables from the displays.

Just because you’re wearing gloves from home, now don’t mean you don’t have to wear the disposables too. In fact, if you don’t put them on, you is exposing that food to contagion, since with the gloves you wear from home you’ve touched everything as if you weren’t wearing them.

7. Failure to respect the minimum safety distance to the extent in the corridors of the supermarket.

Some supermarkets can be an odyssey to fully comply with recommendations and social distancing measures. Whenever you can, try to keep them.

As mentioned above, a person who has no symptoms and is buying like you may be asymptomatic, incubating the disease, or having been in contact with a person with COVID-19.

8. Talking to anyone you meet without respecting the safe distance.

Avoid, unless it is essential and with a store employee, talking to anyone who is in the supermarket even if it is to look for a certain product that you cannot find.

In fact, try to be as flexible as you can in your shopping with those things that are not on your list.

In addition, although the WHO claims that there is not enough scientific evidence to show that the coronavirus can be airborne, you could be infected with particles that come out of anyone’s mouth talk

9. Do not take your own bags to the supermarket.

When you go shopping, which are assumed to be considerably large right now given the confinement situation, you should bring your own bags.

First because you avoid contact with the cashier and second, because it is advisable to keep the products in it instead of using the shopping cart:

10. Although it is sometimes essential, using the shopping cart could be an aberration.

Sometimes the shopping cart is essential to load heavy purchases such as milk bricks, canned jars or kilos of potatoes or rice-more if only one person can go to the supermarket.

But if you carry large bags, it is better to avoid them. Make sure it is well disinfected, otherwise it could be a problem.

This is important because even if other people wear gloves like you, they could have touched as many other infected surfaces or objects during the purchase or before entering.

11. If you ask at home, do it without a time limit.

Most of the online shopping services of supermarkets are maintained in the times of the coronavirus and are vital for those who, for example as a risk group like the elderly or sick, cannot leave home.

If you usually make the purchase online you should consider a greater time margin between the placing of the order and the arrival of the same one, because you may coincide with many more people, your order will be delayed and you will run out of supplies at home.

12. Paying in cash.

According to the WHO, cash could be spreading the new coronavirus.

Both to avoid catching it and to help contain its transmission, you should make payments with the bank card -unless you are contactless, that is, you don’t have to put the pin code to not touch the machine or with your mobile phone.

13. The worst aberration: do not wash your hands before leaving or when you get home.

Among the things you can do to prevent the spread and spread of COVID-19 is to be very meticulous with handwashing-which must be much more frequent than usual.

You should do it before you leave home, but especially when you arrive and after you put all the food in place.

Also, something that experts also recommend is to be especially careful with footwear. In fact, in Spain, Sanidad recommends taking off your shoes and leaving them near the door once you get home and wash your hands immediately.