I've been watching the way people behave in supermarket ques and within the supermarkets I use, Waitrose and Tesco.
In general I have to agree with Neil, so many of them just don't get it, given all the media advertising how can anyone not get it.
I'm also not impressed with the cursory way the supermarket staff "disinfect" the trollies, so I take my own decontamination pack with me, comprising anti bacterial wipes plus anti viral blue meths spray.
I wear gloves and in Tesco, not Waitrose, a face covering. I also have an alcohol based hand sanitiser.
As soon as I'm one or two people away from getting a trolly I put gloves on and in Tesco, cover my face.
Then when I get the trolly I spray the handle and wipe down.
I pick up one of the "self check" devices and spray that with alcohol and wipe down.
Going round I keep my distance and when 2m is not possibly I make sure I keep my back to people.
After paying out I go to the car, unload and return the trolly. Only then do I take gloves off and use hand sanitizer on my hands.
Is all this "overkill?" Possibly. I'm less and less convinced Covid is highly infectious, if you are a reasonably healthy white caucasian under the age of 60. Even if you get it the mortality rate may not be exceptionally high, but as so few have been tested we have no real idea how many people there are who have had it, and recovered and who have had it and not really noticed: some estimates say up to 25% of the population, others less than 5%. The only way to know for sure is to test everyone, which Roche would love but isn't likely. So mortality rate could be anywhere between 0.05% and 5%. Likewise the R Number and number of new cases per day are virtually meaningless, because we have no idea how many people have caught the virus, and not really noticed. The NHS only picks up the people who report as ill.
Given the above, we limit our contact to people we know have also been properly isolating. It is very much a case of "Stranger Danger"... nothing would get me on public transport until we know more about the virus.
