# Coronavirus general discussion and chit-chat **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [August 12, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-general-discussion-and-chit-chat/917903 "2020-08-12T17:29:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 498
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> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > Early on, there were a few discussions about quarantining incoming material such as mail, nonrefrigerated food, etc. As I recall, most of the people doing this mentioned that they would quarantine materials for three days. Any further news or recommendations for this? Early on we did a 5 day quarantine on things coming into the house, but my thread here on the subject pretty much determined it was likely unnecessary so we reduced that time but continued to quarantine things for 2 days out of an abundance of caution until after we were vaccinated. > [@Should I Continue Quarantining My Mail?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-continue-quarantining-my-mail/915402): > > My family has been isolating as much as possible since mid-March, and we have been quarantining our mail and packages for 5 days where possible before opening. I know I saw early on that transmission by mail was unlikely, but ‘this has not been shown to happen’ is not very convincing with a disease so new and it certainly seemed that something handled by many strangers should be treated with caution. Now that we’ve had a few months I’m ready to re-evaluate my position if we have any new informat… 5 days was a real burden, but leaving the mail in the garage and putting canned goods on a special shelf for two days knowing it was all likely unnecessary was really no big deal. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-general-discussion-and-chit-chat/917903)._