Dealing with COVID and OCD

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Mrs. Fauchi

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Covid has really taken a huge toll on me when it came to my OCD and having everything clean. It doesn't help that just recently I tested positive and have no sense of smell/taste. I had a small family gathering at the house and of course, being OCD things were cleaned thoroughly before and after. It might just be my OCD, but one thing that I thought was disturbing was my nephew chewing on my TV remote... For some reason, it dawned on me to google kids chewing TV remotes and sure enough a TV remote contains so many germs/viruses in the trash it went. Then I stumbled upon a remote called "Clean Remote" which shows it carries 99% fewer germs.

https://www.cleanremote.com/remote/consumer

Once I receive it by the end of this week I'll be sure to provide some feedback on it. And yes I am blaming my nephew for chewing on the remote and then touching everything afterward for me getting COVID.
 

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So sorry to read about your covid diagnosis, Mrs. Fauchi. I hope your symptoms are minimal and that you recover quickly. Have all of those who attended your gathering been tested? The virus seems to be quite easily spread through the air, particularly in indoor settings, so your nephew might not be the culprit.

I'll be interested to hear about your Clean Remote, although in our home we need three different remotes (TV, Roku, DVD player) so depending on how programmable it is it might only replace one of the three.
 
Clean remote? It's an object just like any other object so what keeps it from having germs on it when touched?
I sanitize my 2 remotes and my phone also.
 

Mrs. Fauchi said:
Covid has really taken a huge toll on me when it came to my OCD and having everything clean. It doesn't help that just recently I tested positive and have no sense of smell/taste. I had a small family gathering at the house and of course, being OCD things were cleaned thoroughly before and after. It might just be my OCD, but one thing that I thought was disturbing was my nephew chewing on my TV remote... For some reason, it dawned on me to google kids chewing TV remotes and sure enough a TV remote contains so many germs/viruses in the trash it went. Then I stumbled upon a remote called "Clean Remote" which shows it carries 99% fewer germs.

https://www.cleanremote.com/remote/consumer

Once I receive it by the end of this week I'll be sure to provide some feedback on it. And yes I am blaming my nephew for chewing on the remote and then touching everything afterward for me getting COVID.
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I hope you recover quickly!
 
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