Surface Contact Spread of COVID is Real

[Ocelot II]

83. Covid is a respiratory disease.

Some minimum load of the virus would have to get into your respiratory system, so licking or swallowing a contaminated item won't necessarily make you sick. That's why the odds of getting it from surfaces are so small. Hypothetically, if you touched a contaminated surface and picked up a sufficient viral load on your fingers and then touched your face in such a way that you would inhale viruses, you could get sick. But if you really want to get the virus, the best way to do it is to enclose yourself, unmasked, in a small, poorly-ventilated room with a lot of other people who are not wearing masks. While I do wash my hands after I've been out in public, I am much more concerned about being too close to other people. Viruses like the norovirus, which is a gastrointestinal disease, are easily transmitted through food and contaminated surfaces, but covid, not so much.