this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2024
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Huh.
That doesn't strike me as a likely vector, given that most viruses don't survive on hard surfaces very long. If you're going to that kind of extreme, you would really need to be setting up an airlock on your house so that you could change and shower before going inside. For people that worked in hospitals with covid-19 patients, where they had very high exposures, that was a real thing that helped reduce spread. But the average person? It's just not a big enough risk.
FWIW, I had covid-19 once, and it was after I'd gotten my vaccination and booster (very mild case), and that was with pretty basic precautions like washing my hands, not going to indoor gatherings, and wearing a respirator with P-100 filter cartridges whenever I was in public.
At the beginning of the pandemic people didn't know much about COVID and did whatever they could to keep safe. Especially in high risk households. As better research became available many of the approaches such as wiping down groceries got used less.