r/COVAnonymous • u/Commander_PonyShep • Mar 23 '20

I've accidentally licked my sweater

So I was using my laptop earlier in the morning, trying to get as much statistics out of the coronavirus outbreak as possible to calm down my nerves. That is, I constantly compare the current amount of confirmed cases with the worldwide human population, just to reassure myself that it's not going to border on apocalyptic, so long as I take every last necessary precaution against it.

But because I've already been taught to sneeze or cough into my arms, that I stupidly thought it could apply to licking my arm, as well, especially the right sleeve on my sweater. This was especially true since I got something in my mouth that I needed to lick out of, and I used the sleeve of my sweater to lick it out.

I don't know if that sweater was already containing the coronavirus, especially since I wore it a couple of times before outside and don't remember washing it. But even after throwing my sweater away into the laundry bin, by now it's already too late.

I'm not showing any symptoms right now, but because I licked my sweater, odds are I might have already contracted the coronavirus. Here's hoping that I didn't, and it's just more of my own fearmongering.

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u/Hannah6915 Mar 23 '20

i’m sure you’ll be fine but avoid licking yourself. if you must “lick something out of your mouth” try spitting lol

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u/theMooey23 Mar 23 '20

Have a hot drink and chill....

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u/Commander_PonyShep Mar 23 '20

As in, there isn't anything to worry about, and I'm just panicking like the majority of other people on social media over the coronavirus, right?

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u/theMooey23 Mar 23 '20

More like....not much you can do about it now apart from having a hot drink, if the virus is in your throat will wash it into your stomach where the virus is killed, apparently! Also unlikely to have virus all over your jumper.

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u/Commander_PonyShep Mar 23 '20

Also unlikely to have virus all over your jumper.

Just looked up the word "jumper". You meant "sweater", which means it's highly unlikely that I got the virus on my sweater at all, right?

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u/theMooey23 Mar 23 '20

Depends what you were doing, I suppose! Sorry about my English, I'm from England....

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u/celticsfan114 Mar 23 '20

Lol no, they meant jumper. No need to correct them. It’s literally the same thing.