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Re:Engineer who attended cybersecurity event contracts coron... by meowface on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @07:23PM (#22541087)
I get almost all of my non-perishable items with Amazon and Amazon Fresh (left at my door without human interaction).

Not sure how much safer that is, but I imagine it's less exposure in total, if I'm careful about hand-washing.

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Re:Engineer who attended cybersecurity event contracts coron... by rasz on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:16AM (#22543191)
Delivered by a robot? or minimum wage coughing worker?
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Re:Engineer who attended cybersecurity event contracts coron... by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:55AM (#22546320)
It's about risk mitigation. It's not 100% guaranteed physically impossible to pick up the virus from a delivery package, but it's a very low risk, much lower than other infection vectors most people will be exposed to. Unless you're planning to hermetically seal yourself into your home for the next 8 weeks, the risk is probably so low it's not worth thinking about.
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Re:Engineer who attended cybersecurity event contracts coron... by rasz on Thursday March 12, 2020 @02:35AM (#22554356)
>Unless you're planning to hermetically seal yourself into your home for the next 8 weeks

Way ahead of you

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Re:Engineer who attended cybersecurity event contracts coron... by meowface on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:16PM (#22552940)
Minimum wage coughing worker. I'm just figuring it's lower risk than going to a store with numerous coughing/breathing customers and employees everywhere. I believe the risk is higher when you're directly exposed to another person, compared to the virus being on an object's surface.
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