Posted on 03/03/2020 9:07:35 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Global health authorities have advised people to use contactless payments instead of banknotes where possible in order to stop spreading the new coronavirus.
Health experts have previously warned that the virus can survive on inert surfaces long enough to infect new hosts, although the risk is believed to be lower than human-to-human contact.
But a spokesperson for the World Health Organisation (WHO) told the Telegraph on Monday that the virus can remain infectious on banknotes for several days.
The Bank of England has also acknowledged that banknotes ‘can carry bacteria or viruses’ and encourages shoppers to wash their hands after using them.
(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...
WHO uses cash anymore? :)
This web site beats on the WHO like a drum:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD2-QVBQi48RRQTD4Jhxu8w
They have become useless clowns at this point.
No.
Cash only.
Of course. Just another excuse to bring on a cashless society.
And instead of those germy touchscreens and keypads, here, let us help by microchipping you on the hand or forehead.
WHO is one of the tentacles of the globalist project. They see an opportunity here
This makes me much more paranoid than the virus itself does.
I’m a cash guy. I only use credit card for online purchases and write one check a month to pay the credit card bill. Even pay my property taxes in cash.
No one’s getting Coronavirus from handling money, or door knobs. This is getting silly - but I guess if people become paranoid of cash, other UN goals may get met.
The key is to STAY OUT OF TAXIS with infected people, or other close quarters, especially for extended periods. It’s in the air, breathe too much of it from infected people, and you get it.
Convenient excuse for the war on cash.
No sale.
Just another step toward “The Velvet Monkeywrench”.
Been known for years/decades that money is one of the dirtiest items we touch on a daily basis....
Filthy lucre.
Per the CDC: “Spread from contact with infected surfaces or objects. It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.”
IOW, not likely, but still possible.
Another good reason to wash your paws.
;-)
True - and decent reason to wash...but if one really wants to get Coronavirus, they’re wasting their time chasing cash and door knobs, short of knowing that a vector sneezed on it. Much more practical to get in a cab with that vector, try to get in the spray of a vector showing symptoms, or get a job in a facility full of vectors and the air is saturated with Coronavirus (where uniforms, gloves, and masks are useless).
Money laundering done right.
Yet we live.
There are many things you touch each day with the potential to be more contaminated than a dollar bill.
Door handles, elevator buttons, stair rails, gas pump handle, toilet flusher, etc.
Entering your pin
In my neighborhood, the cash only stores are proliferating like crazy. Two of them as pastry shops ...we buy our pastries and sit down to eat. invariably one of us decides we have to have another pastry....which means pulling out the credit card again.
BTW, thankfully, the new Apple Card is super easy and fast to use.
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