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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
C'mon Sebby, don't be a snowflake. You dish out the abuse too, you should be able to take it.
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I can't take stupid so severe that it assumes I was arguing that eating the food was the issue. Unless you're an absolute moron, and you've not paid any attention to the controversy over whether the virus remains on packaging, you know I was addressing the possibility of acquiring the virus from touching the packaging.*
If you're eating takeout, you're touching the package in which it is transferred to you. If I get Thai takeout as I used to, I have to touch the bag, then the plastic dishes in which its kept. This provides numerous contact points where, had the food been packaged by someone with Covid, I could conceivably get the virus on my hands and, if not careful, accidentally transfer it to my mouth or nose.
Seems odd that with so much takeout food being consumed, must of it prepared by people at high risk of contracting the virus, there have not been more cases attributable to this form of transmission.
It suggests that perhaps acquisition of the virus from exposure to surfaces on which it is located is a far more rare than exposure via inhalation.
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* Technically, you could also acquire it from touching the bun of a sandwich that has not been heated. Though this seems far fetched.
