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NPR: Disinfecting Surfaces Might Not Be Worth It to Prevent Coronavirus
Breitbart ^ | January 1, 2021 | Katherine Rodriguez

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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To: CheshireTheCat
Back in January and February, scientists thought the coronavirus could be primarily transmitted through surface contamination.

The "because science" people refuse to admit they are sometimes wrong. I follow the scientific method , but I put my faith in God.

21 posted on 01/01/2021 9:58:18 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: MNDude

*gag*


22 posted on 01/01/2021 9:58:37 PM PST by Salamander (Invisigoth)
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To: Flick Lives

“Godzilla Meets Covid”?


23 posted on 01/01/2021 9:59:58 PM PST by JennysCool (2020: Aging “world socialists” promoting their ideology by scaring the crap out of gullible people.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
A study from the New England Journal of Medicine at the time suggested the virus could live on surfaces for days.


I'll bet Clorox is thankful for that one.........

24 posted on 01/01/2021 10:06:46 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: MNDude
I eat my boogers!

You're pretty much immune from everything, then.

25 posted on 01/01/2021 10:07:52 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

P


26 posted on 01/01/2021 10:14:37 PM PST by bitt (Anton Chekov: “Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”)
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To: CheshireTheCat

It has never been about the virus. It has always been about control.


27 posted on 01/01/2021 10:24:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: JennysCool

Bingo! These are just the start of this type of story. Once inauguration day has come and gone, the flood gates will open and Shazam! Biden saves America.

There are no words dirty enough to describe these people.


28 posted on 01/01/2021 10:25:39 PM PST by Valpal1
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To: Valpal1

You’re so right. There are no words.


29 posted on 01/01/2021 10:26:25 PM PST by JennysCool (2020: Aging “world socialists” promoting their ideology by scaring the crap out of gullible people.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

This is not surprising to me.

The head of the cleaning crew at my employer died of CV19 last year.

Heard about it from one of the women in the cleaning crew.


30 posted on 01/01/2021 10:26:59 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: TigersEye

The liquor industry got in the game too.

Local distillers selling cheap vodka for $12 a bottle with gel and perfumes added to it so you can’t drink it.


31 posted on 01/01/2021 10:28:37 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: JennysCool

New Year’s Even I was in 3 different grocery stores. There were no lines to enter and every single one of them was packed, all registers open. Virtually no parking places (with cars circling the lot or double parking at one of them).

Socialist distancing is over. The public is done. New year. New president. The ruse is over.


32 posted on 01/01/2021 10:31:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

We know of cats and dogs that have caught Covid19.

So where else is it being transmitted in the animal kingdom?

Is it that hard to consider that birds may have become infected by discarded masks and gloves?

That girl on the trail may be spooked by humans without masks but what’s she gonna do about all of those naked animals all around her in “nature”?

A whale at sea world caught the flu in the late 1960s. It can happen.


33 posted on 01/01/2021 10:34:17 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: 21twelve

>>They turned the Covid-19 into this terrible beast in order to ramp up government control.

It’s always been about government control and Bill Gates has driven this effort for years.


34 posted on 01/01/2021 10:35:00 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: Sacajaweau

Fraudouche sneezed on his cuff and rubbed his runny nose another time (and wiped it on Pence’s back).

The videos are out there. That fraud doesn’t live by his own edicts.


35 posted on 01/01/2021 10:36:28 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: a fool in paradise

I worry a lot more about all the future neurotic adults we are creating. It’s a great time to get your degree in psych and get licensed and a therapist. We are going to need LOTS of them based on what I’ve seen.


36 posted on 01/01/2021 10:42:13 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: Salamander

I had to stop at my local target a few weeks ago. When I walked in I just grabbed a basket by the door and kept walking, but was chased into the store by a employee with a bottle of spray sanitizer and some paper towels saying they were supposed to wipe down the basket for me first before I took it. I refused and they kept following me. I then asked them if they are so concerned why don’t you sanitize them after you collect them before you put a new stack out by the doors.

They said they did, but had to stand by the doors to watch you sanitize them so you would feel safe. I simply laughed and walked away, much to the chagrin in whore of the idiot door watcher.


37 posted on 01/01/2021 10:50:07 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: HIDEK6
“When you see people doing spray disinfection of streets and sidewalks and walls and subways, I just don’t know of any data that supports the fact that we’re getting infected from viruses that are jumping up from the sidewalk,” he said.

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Still, public health experts say that the best way to protect yourself against the coronavirus is to wash your hands with soap and water, avoid crowds, and wear a mask when leaving the house.

But the fact that there is absolutely no evidence that wearing a cloth mask protects you from the virus doesn't cause this "expert" any pause.

38 posted on 01/01/2021 10:55:20 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: CheshireTheCat

Another ‘theory’ bites the dust.
OR maybe not.

Hard telling...this will run a day or so then a ‘new’ study will come out saying there isn’t enough disinfecting going on.

I like to ‘toy’ with people by telling them that if you are going to do something, do it right.

Have someone stand at EVERY door and when one enters or leaves make the NEXT person wait while the someone wipes down the ENTIRE door, (can’t be too careful)
Station someone in every aisle and DEMAND that if you ‘touch it you bought’ or at least wipe down what they touched and be it unwrapped fruit or vegetable, throw it away.

Back when ‘they’ had to wear gloves I would suggest that to do it right one must throw away the glove whenever you touch something NEW that is going to eventually go to someone else.

On course the ‘mask police’ love to throw the ‘Well Doctors and Nurses wear them so they must be good’.
Blows their mind when you agree with them THEN tell them that Hospital types wear their masks and gloves once and into the burn bag headed for the incinerator or medical waste facility.

When this Schiff first started the grocery stores were wiping down the rubber conveyor belt after each customer. They were using some sort of sanitary spray and the natural result was that most everything the next person put on the belt got wet.

Step one would/should be that EVERYONE that says ‘I wear the mask to get along’ if you DON’T believe in them don’t wear it. At least be true to yourself. If you don’t mind wearing them, fine but at least admit it just don’t ‘worry’ about me.

Have been hearing ‘rumblings’ about how the grocery clerks, fast food etc etc and ALL the suddenly ‘essential workers’ should be getting hazardous duty pay, especially now that the unemployed are getting ‘bonuses’ for not working.

If that movement catches on the ‘fun’ will really begin.


39 posted on 01/01/2021 10:56:14 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: CheshireTheCat
Who listens to any of this tripe from the government?

Don't drink coffee. Drink coffee. Don't drink coffee.

Wear masks. Don't wear masks. Wear masks.

Virus does not survive on surfaces. Virus survives on surfaces. Virus does not survive on surfaces.

Don't disinfect surfaces. Disinfect surfaces. Don't disinfect surfaces.

I don't trust medical experts anymore. I don't trust the news anymore. I don't trust the government anymore. I don't trust our institutions anymore.

I only trust one thing nowadays. I trust President Trump. And that's it. The rest is all spin, fake news, corrupt messaging, agenda driven drivel and outright lies.

We need to get back to doing what we have always done in this country to survive.

Think and decide for yourself. Freedom to choose is a good thing.

40 posted on 01/01/2021 11:10:31 PM PST by HotHunt
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