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A friend has written, describing how he wipes down every item he brings from the grocery store into his home.  This sounds like a nightmare to me.  I shopped in a supermarket yesterday, and although I wore a mask and gloves, wiped the cart and all surfaces of the bancomat <\/em>(cash machine, ATM) and took all precautions while inside the store, if this virus really is everywhere, including on boxes of eggs and toothpaste, bottles of hand soap and olive oil, then I may as well resign myself to my fate.  It took me all morning to do the shopping and I wasn’t willing to spend the afternoon swabbing cans of tomatoes and packets of coffee.  Maybe in smaller stores or more densely populated areas, items in the grocery could be contaminated by a high concentration of shoppers, the way tourists\u2019 exhalations damaged the cave paintings at Lascaux.  But shoppers were sparse in my supermarket, most were masked and gloved, and I heard not one sneeze or cough.  So those are all my tidy rationalizations for failing to wipe. **<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I barbered my husband\u2019s hair this afternoon, and he\u2019s kindly said the result is every bit as good as the cut he got regularly in Freetown from a professional barber.  The user manual for the electric razor says it is safe for use by \u201cchildren over 8 years old as well as persons with reduced physical, sensory, or mental capacities or lack of experience or knowledge if they have received instruction or supervision in the use of the appliance,\u201d so I\u2019m not overly impressed with my own abilities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend has written, describing how he wipes down every item he brings from the grocery store into his home.  This sounds like a nightmare to me.  I shopped in a supermarket yesterday, and although I wore a mask and gloves, wiped the cart and all surfaces of the bancomat (cash machine, ATM) and took all
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