Posted on 11/19/2016 6:42:42 PM PST by jcon40
Probably the best reason to wash your hands regularly is that the world is covered in feces. New York City is particularly gross, and some of the most shared surfaces of this spend-friendly city are automated teller machines. Quite appropriately, the good scientists at New York University tested them for microbes.
The study, published in the journal mSphere, included a hundredsome samples from eight neighborhoods across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, ranging from midtown to Flushing to Inwood to Ozone Park.
“ATM surfaces, potentially retaining microbial signatures of human inhabitants … are interesting from both a biodiversity perspective and a public health perspective,” lead author NYU project scientist Holly M. Bik and her colleagues write. , They focused on neighborhoods with distinct population demographics, swabbing around for patterns. The goal was to add to the body of work on the “urban microbiome.”
(Excerpt) Read more at heatst.com ...
New York Diversity, no thanks
At least they didn’t vote for Hillary
Suspicions confirmed.
....but not as disgusting as the mayor.
What about the cash itself?
Apologies to any NYC decent resident but a few nukes could clean this crap up.
Think about it with a world wide view ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GhbkrOg9gA
My fav excerpt ....
The authors report that the most striking biomarkers regarded food species on ATM keypads were those that aligned with eating habits of certain neighborhoods, like bony fish and mollusks in Flushing and Manhattan’s Chinatown and domestic chicken in Central Harlem.
Hey Hamilton cast...enjoy your ATM’s ;)
And that’s why I push those communal buttons with the second knuckle of my index finger...
We didn’t want ya :)
I’ve used them for 30 years without getting sick but you delicate fag..er, flowers just stay where you live.
It’s funny to joke about killing my 26 year old nice, my wife, my mother, and many others?
What piece of #### worthless fed fund sucking clump of dirt do you come from?
Can’t think of anything WORSE than Taking federal funds.
We give MORE than we take, but a lot of red state folk sure talk a good game! :)
Been doing that Myself,,
We honest red states expect the leftist sewer cites to be policed by honest people.
Fix your city filth sooner rather than later.
I’ve long suspected that ATMs are cesspools of germs. For check deposits, mobile apps are the only way to fly. For cash withdrawals, go in the bank, or, if that’s not possible, take the maximum cash amount to reduce frequency of ATM use.
A simple look at how the liberal cities vote tells it all.
It’s past time to drain the city swamps.
First, one should never go to a liberal city ATM.
Second, If you need a liberal city ATM, you need to reflect your values.
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