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Flushing the toilet might give you coronavirus
BGR ^ | 4/23/2020 | MIke Wehner

Posted on 04/23/2020 1:36:50 PM PDT by Texan4Life

Upon examining a wealth of existing research dating as far back as the 1950s, the authors of the paper explain that flushing a toilet that contains fecal matter can produce bioaerosols that remain in the air for an extended period of time. Much of the research suggests the material remains in the air for up 8 minutes after the toilet was flushed.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: deuce; dontflush; floaters; obama; plume; q; qanon; toilet
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To: Texan4Life

If beer, bacon or cheese gives you the virus..i’m a goner.


21 posted on 04/23/2020 1:46:57 PM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: Cobra64

Ditto for China and Iran, and look what’s happened/happening to them.

I’ve seen some additional discussion of this aerosolization problem...the take seemed to be that, while gross, it was not enough to cause transmission.

What IS a vector, by contrast, is not scrubbing one’s hands afterwards. And that’s also lacking in places like China, Iran, and India.


22 posted on 04/23/2020 1:46:57 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: EvilCapitalist

Or are they trying to “break it to ‘em gently” to the masses about how it’s really transmitted?


23 posted on 04/23/2020 1:49:17 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: Texan4Life

Amazing that basic first-world hygiene is now newsworthy.


24 posted on 04/23/2020 1:49:48 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: glennaro

Lol!


25 posted on 04/23/2020 1:51:14 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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To: Texan4Life

From the alligator that comes up through the sewers who caught it from the cat he ate who caught it from his owner the barber who had the virus jump 5 feet 11 inches from an unmasked customer?


26 posted on 04/23/2020 1:51:15 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Texan4Life
Hopping on one foot and patting your head might give you the coronavirus too. We just haven't ruled it out.

Maybe we should stick to worrying about what will give you the coronavirus though.

27 posted on 04/23/2020 1:53:04 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: hoagy62

It sure is!!!


28 posted on 04/23/2020 1:54:17 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Texan4Life

Is it the paper or the ‘discharged matter’?
May explain why some ‘societies’ use their hand.
May explain why some ‘societies’ just drop trou and exit themselves on the spot.

If all these things are true, everyone may as well go around nekkid and throw away your furniture because it must become a ‘carrier’ once one sits on it.

This would be comical but even a sarcastic Mel Brooks etal couldn’t come up with a script like this.

A great example of give an ‘idiot’ an inch and they will take a mile.

Each goveernor doest their damndest to top their ‘neighbor’ and then the mayors top the govs.

I certainly hope these fools don’t expect to get reelected.... of course if they ‘suspend’ the elections they don’t have to worry about it.

Time for PDJT to take a stand, one way or another.

COMPLETE shutdown or nothing.

On bailing the states out, bad idea saying that only ‘blue’ states will NOT be helped, the ones expelled should be the sanctuary cities/states and others that are breaking Federal Laws.


29 posted on 04/23/2020 1:54:52 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: caww

Peer reviewed in the john.


30 posted on 04/23/2020 1:57:06 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: discostu

Yes, but sometimes it’s a double flusher, before you stand for the last one.

A guy I know that worked as an engineer in a building said after working on toilet backup, that he wished the person would have given a “courtesy flush” in the midst of their business, instead of making one flush out of the big affair.


31 posted on 04/23/2020 1:57:18 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Ta-dah.
They used to have toilets with a verical pipe behind the bowl...with a head which released aerosolized water when toilet was flushed to suppress the toilet plume.


32 posted on 04/23/2020 1:58:30 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: M1903A1

It’s a I’ll wind that breaks it gently.


33 posted on 04/23/2020 1:58:38 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

Ill wind ... damn autocorrect....


34 posted on 04/23/2020 2:00:04 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: hoagy62
This INSANITY has to STOP!! This is getting effing ridiculous!!!!

If flushing your own turd will give you china virus - that was already inside your own body apparently if it's inside your turds, then so will farting.

We're all gonna die. With rancorous odors reverberating in our nostrils!

35 posted on 04/23/2020 2:01:50 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: Texan4Life

Greenies will be demanding a return to outhouses — to save the planet and all.


36 posted on 04/23/2020 2:02:24 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Texan4Life

Dave Barry did a funny column on this years ago.

Couldn’t find it but found this on the history of toilets.

http://archive.boston.com/news/packages/krt/millennium/html/p_toilet.htm


37 posted on 04/23/2020 2:03:42 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Texan4Life; All

Maybe this will work. After taking a dump give it a shot of concentrated bleach and then flush. For sure it will keep the bowl ckean.


38 posted on 04/23/2020 2:04:05 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: Texan4Life
But it's ok to use one of those Japanese toilets?
39 posted on 04/23/2020 2:04:54 PM PDT by McGruff (Freedom is contagious.)
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To: mosesdapoet

Stretch Saran wrap over the bowl prior to flushing. Just remember to take it off after a few minutes.


40 posted on 04/23/2020 2:06:33 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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