Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 18:29     Subject: Talk me off the ledge: COVID and Stuffed Animal
Anonymous wrote:Ok talk me off the ledge here....our neighborhood had planned an Easter Egg hunt for kids in the neighborhood. They obviously cancelled this weeks ago but had already ordered materials (plastic eggs, a sand bucket, some bubbles and two little bunnies) so they made up baskets for the kids and I picked ours up today. When I got home I washed my hands, sanitized all the plastic eggs and bubbles inside and set the two small stuffed bunnies to the side to be washed. DD, who is almost 3, saw them after her nap and grabbed them before I was able to wash them. Husband just told me she took them to bed. Should I go take them from her bed now that she's asleep and wash them? Or am I overthinking this?

There can't be much risk here, right? Unless the person who packed the bag has COVID, coughed on their hands while packing the bag, and it was all within the last 48 hours?


There isn’t a lot of risk - but I would still wash them. Assuming they are made of some type of fabric (and not some type of plastic fibers), apparently you can’t pick up much of the virus off of clothes/fabric anyway. The risk isn’t zero, but it isn’t the same as if she went and sniffed a Covid contaminated stainless steel pole, either.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 14:58     Subject: Talk me off the ledge: COVID and Stuffed Animal
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Chill. You are more likely to die in a car wreck or choking on a pretzel.



How in the world does that begin to compare?! And are you saying that since other things can kill you, you shouldn’t take any precautions?

I hear your parroted post all the time from my Fox-watching in-laws. It’s so ridiculous.






PP did not tell OP to go roll around on the floor of walmart for an hour. She told them that she should chill about this. People in OP and her child's age group are almost certainly more likely to die from a car crash. She's also socially distancing and safely picked up the basket. Putting your risk in perspective is a good thing. This is a hard time and trying to take joy in the little things is a good thing. Freaking out about this low risk stuffie is, IMO, energy best spent elsewhere. This is going to give us all anxiety disorders.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 14:40     Subject: Re:Talk me off the ledge: COVID and Stuffed Animal
I’m just impressed your kid naps