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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  On TV they always wear them but honestly the couple of times I have had family in the ICU I didn’t pay attention. It also maybe one of the things they have run out of. This virus is actually considered very fragile to in this instance it wouldn’t survive. I’m pretty anal about shoes when we have had snow or ice and salt is every where. Several dog illnesses can also be brought in by shoes. I take my shoes off pretty much right when I get home because I much prefer slippers  |
Covid 19 virus microbes are
relatively fragile, depending on what they are encountering that's not a host or carrier. I'm not so sure wear and tear of shoe soles or time or air will necessarily rip the lipid/fat envelope encasing the Covid-19 virus open and destroy or loosen it from any surface before I might touch it and become a host and/or carrier to it. Wear and tear or time destruction of it may not be quite fast enough to destroy it before it transfers or infects another host. Soap and water or disinfectant type substances clean greasy surfaces better than just using whatever it's on and eventually wearing or transferring the microbe or grease off to another surface so I'm not chancing Covid-19 will eventually wear off my shoes quickly enough for safety.
Thankfully most who get the virus live and don't seem to have any lingering after effects so far.