Posted on 01/01/2021 8:56:10 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
A recent NPR report said that disinfecting surfaces using sprays and wipes might not be necessary to prevent the coronavirus.
Scientists say that if a person infected with the coronavirus sneezes, talks loudly, or coughs, droplets containing particles of the virus are airborne and can land on surfaces.
But Emanuel Goldman, a microbiologist at Rutgers University, told NPR the risk of getting infected from touching a surface with the virus is low.
“In hospitals, surfaces have been tested near COVID-19 patients, and no infectious virus can be identified,” Goldman says.
Instead, what is left over is viral RNA, otherwise known as the corpse of the coronavirus.
Back in January and February, scientists thought the coronavirus could be primarily transmitted through surface contamination.
A study from the New England Journal of Medicine at the time suggested the virus could live on surfaces for days.
Because of the results of that study, the public began to wipe down their groceries, disinfect common areas, and even wear gloves.
But now scientists are saying that people who disinfect to prevent against the coronavirus might be overdoing it....
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Sisters family, very pro-mask, CDC and fauci are all knowing. Both teachers, teachers union, etc. Special needs daughter got covid from the nurse at their school. All regularly wearing masks, disinfecting surfaces, etc. Within days of her positive test, whole family of 4 covid positive. All are fine now, after a week or so of various symptoms.
Our family, not pro mask, CDC and fauci are government bureaucrats/functionaries, health care/life sciences background. Daughter covid positive, several friends from school (private, Christian) also positive. At home, no mask wearing, "social distancing" or disinfecting. Just life as usual. Nobody else in family got it. Daughter doing well, almost 10 days of mild-ish symptoms.
The virus is everywhere. Has been since spring.
By now, most stores have learned to leave me alone.
Once in a while, I get a real karen up my face and I ask them what they think the constant exposure to toxic cleaner spray is doing to their lungs.
I ask them if they’ve read the labels on the crap they’re snorting by the gallon, every day.
That makes them look worried.
Good.
By now, most stores have learned to leave me alone.
Once in a while, I get a real karen up my face and I ask them what they think the constant exposure to toxic cleaner spray is doing to their lungs.
I ask them if they’ve read the labels on the crap they’re snorting by the gallon, every day.
That makes them look worried.
Good.
So true. For example, the CREATOR put small critters on your skin for a created purpose. Killing them with hand sanitizers thwarts the CREATOR’S plan and purpose for them. You will suffer badness anytime you mess with the CREATOR’s intent.
I use the nitrile gloves for cleaning and wood refinishing. Keeps the varnish off my hands.
I was cleaning our bathroom once that was being remodeled and it was an old house so very dirty. I ended up with a staph infection in my thumb from a small cut I had.. After that, when cleaning bathrooms, I always use gloves.
I also have a tendency to react to stuff that I absorb through my skin, so the gloves help protect me from that as well. And in the winter, what with dry skin being a problem, it’s easier on my hands than having them crack and bleed from being extra dried out.
I’ve always had boxes of exam gloves around in the garage for working on cars, and in the basement workshop area. Wore them a few times grocery shopping during the early phase of all this, then stopped. I do mask up when at the grocery, and am not eating inside at restaurants.
Amen
Or to be a dog trainer!
Go figure all the pet’s adopted as puppies during this. I am currently working with a victim of this. Dog missed the whole period of socialization. Now at 100lbs. is a total freaked out nut when taking a walk.
In the business we’re calling them covid puppies. It is going to take months to undo their damage, if dog trainers can? I often equate dog training and raising kids as similar processes in a lot of cases. Cannot even imagine what all this has done to the kids.
I think we (the wife) sanitized nearly everything for about two weeks in March...now we have a couple spare containers of Clorox wipes laying around.
Good point.
I did too at first, when we didn’t really know what we were dealing with.
Now, the mask goes on once I cross the threshold of the door, and comes off immediately upon leaving the store.
It’s appalling the number of people who still wear them everywhere.
The interior of my car was never cleaner than it was in March. After going into any business establishment, I’d wipe down everything I could touch in the car.
The EPA put out a list of the wipes that would kill CV and the Oxivir tb wipes scored at the top so I bought a lot of them before they became restricted to the health care industry. I still am using them to wipe the kitchen clean.
The great thing is I’d never used wipes before this hit and I discovered those are really handy for cleaning the house, especially the kitchen. I’ll probably continue using them just out of sheer convenience.
The wipes have their uses but trying to be sterile all the time wastes time/effort/money and unless it’s an operating room, serves no real healthful purpose - that’s my story and I’m stacking to it.
Happy New Year.
We just flew round trip to CA. for Christmas. On our flight home, the woman in front of me, who was much younger than I am, was wearing 2 masks and a shield. Through the entire flight she constantly wiped down the surfaces around her. I seriously don’t know how she could breathe.
That is so pathetic.
I refuse to live in such fear and let it control me like that.
LOL
There’s nothing like alcohol to make your skin soft, smooth and supple!
High octane too!
Can’t use the 80 proof stuff
Why not grain alcohol and salt? Pickle those hands and turn them into lobster claws. :)
Am I the only one who has wondered whether hands that are chapped and cracked from neurotic use of disinfectants might be vulnerable to viruses? (and bacteria) No need to touch your mouth, nose or eyes, viruses can just enter the bloodstream through the cracks in your fingers.
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