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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  It’s very unlikely it would stay on your shoes. Let me give an example if my mom gets it on her shoe at the grocery store she has to walk across the parking lot to the car, she is in the car at least 15 to 20 minutes meaning her shoe had rubbed on the car rug, then at home she has to walk on the drive way from the car to the garage where she walks across an outdoor rug before climbing a few steps across an inside deck and then over another outdoor rug then inside the house. There is no way it’s going to still be there when she gets into the house. They say that the virus in itself can be rather delicate which is why washing your hands breaks it up and off. In my house we don’t put shoes on furniture either so the likelihood of actually getting it from your shoe is extremely unlikely. |
And apparently that study was done on medicos coming straight from the ICU. I thought they always wore shoe covers in ICU. Last time I was there they did, slipping them onremoving them in the anteroom. Rubbing germs off or elapsed time on any surface is not a sterilization technique recognized by medical personnel, however. Many germs still live on, able to sicken and kill dispite many methods of washing, scrubbing/rubbing, etc. Otherwise, surgeons, nurses, etc., wouldn't scrub up, glove, gown and bootie up before entering the O. R. or room of a very contageious patient. Only recognized, proven washing techniques, disinfectants or sterilization kill some germs/microbes.
Still, for those who don't want to take a chance of coronavirus or some other bug remaining in a poroous or scuffed area on your shoe or hardy enough not to get rubbed off, it's good to know to take the precaution of changing shoes outside or in the car. Thankfully I haven't really had cold or flu sx. longer than a half-day since I began wearing washable clogs, which I change out at the front door, back door or the utility porch door.
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