COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

StudioSaint said

The article from the New England Journal does not say there is no risk. It says the risk is very low. It does not say it's impossible, it just says that it's highly unlikely.

The reality is that even though the risk of getting infected from from food and store deliveries is low, it's not zero. There's still a chance it could happen. I personally don't want to tell someone "go ahead you'll be fine" and then find out they were the long shot that did get infected from it.

Even with my parents, one is mid 76 the other one is 81, I've just been making sure they understand all the different risks and then letting them decide what risks they want to take or not.

Safer does not mean completely safe. Not much risk does not mean no risk at all. Those are important distinctions to understand right now.

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Point well taken......and I agree with everything you said.

However, this is a football message board. We are all here learning from each other, sometimes having fun, sometimes being sad.

Nobody is dictating to anyone how to live their own life.

Personally having delicious food delivered from reputable restaurants, imho, carries little risk. These workers do not want to compromise their jobs. (Some of the dad’s in this thread even stated that because their kids work in restaurants). It also helps workers to keep their jobs.

Imho there was a much greater risk just going into Costco last night. There were pallets & pallets of toilet paper & even more pallets of bottled water. As a sales lady once told me, “by the time you buy a product, it has probably been touched by 60 hands.” (From manufacturing, to transport, to delivery etc etc etc). Therefore she felt as though she was not even safe doing her job.

So live & let live.......everyone has to find their own way, to keep themselves & their family safe. ????