My groceries today got sprayed with dilute Simple Green, rinsed well, then dried and into the fridge. This plastic wrapped/packaged stuff like a PSMO tenderloin, carnitas meat, sour cream containers, etc.
Cardboard shelf-stable stuff is sitting overnight in the garage.
Good video by a doc on cleaning your groceries:
That video is precisely what prompted my web search on persistence of the virus on surfaces. Here’s why:
When an extreme caution is mandated compliance will move to the extremes: people will either go all out or say, whatevuh, I can’t do that, so I won’t do anything since I’m getting the virus anyway.
“Fear-based” public health campaigns frequently backfire for this reason.
See: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/11/02/453960470/scaring-people-can-make-them-healthier-but-it-can-backfire-too “If a decision is made to use fear-based appeals, Albarracin says, there are reasons against making the messaging too extreme. It can discourage the audience, she says, setting too high a bar. And while fear-based appeals don’t usually backfire, when they do, Albarracin says it may be owing to an overly intense level of fear. ‘When the facts are too extreme in an attempt to induce fear, they are just not believable and cast doubt on the whole enterprise,’ she says.”
Not mentioned in the article is the 1980s AIDS campaigns whose message was “use condoms or die,” and subsequently led to an outlier population to engage in even riskier behavior than before because they figured that since even one encounter would kill them, they might as well just forget protection altogether.
I think the caution shown in this video is fine but the regimen is only necessary in some areas and is otherwise impossible to follow.
FYI
Regular S Green does not kill Virus,
Great cleaner though
Only 5 D Pro does