# Funerals in times of COVID **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 11, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funerals-in-times-of-covid/925314 "2020-11-11T13:16:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funerals-in-times-of-covid/925314/14 "2020-11-11T18:51:19Z")
Here’s a post of mine in another thread. The thread is on the mental health aspects of COVID precautions and how to identify when enough shades into too much. The whole thread may have relevance to the OP’s questions as might my specific post here: > [@Am I becoming agoraphobic, claustrophobic or something new?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-becoming-agoraphobic-claustrophobic-or-something-new/924458/8): > > If memory serves, in the early days of the pandemic, epidemiologists were concerned that surface contact could be a significant factor in spreading the coronavirus, and such precautions were, if not universally recommended, at least were classified as “not a bad idea.” But, further research has told us that such transmission appears to be pretty rare, meaning that those sorts of precautions are likely unnecessary – but some people may not have gotten that message, or they don’t feel comfortabl… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funerals-in-times-of-covid/925314)._