A 5-point guide to supermarket shopping in the age of COVID-19 from a New Yorker who spent an hour there.
One of my best friends in New York is self-quarantining. She is smart, extremely well-read and makes me laugh. We read long-form articles together and, afterwards, we discuss them over tea. We don’t always agree, which we like, but we do agree most of the time, and we're OK with that too.
She needed a couple of weeks’ worth of groceries. That is how I found myself with another Irishman — who moved to the U.S. 30 years before I did — in Fairway Market on Broadway and 74th Street on Monday afternoon, with a shopping list in one hand and a grocery cart in the other. Research has concluded that masks have helped reduce contagion by reducing droplets being sprayed into the air during flu season; and infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci has said the White House Coronavirus Task force is considering giving the public the green light to wear them.N95 masks filter viruses larger than 0.1 micrometers Coronavirus is 0.125 um. Still, I would not wear an N95. They’re needed elsewhere.
If you take anything away from this, rather than becoming embroiled in a heated debate on face masks, take that. Coronavirus can survive longer on a solid surface than on a pair of gloves, but it can live for a time on different surfaces, so I try to be aware that it could be on my gloves, too. Everyone is freaked out. Friendly banter puts me and, I hope, others at ease. A nice woman recommended the London Broil. I read peer-reviewed studies — not Facebook FB, -2.02% posts. I choose caremongering over scaremongering because FEAR IS NOT YOUR FRIEND .
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