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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: MayflowerMadam; haircutter; All

The force pressure with which bathrooms in office buildings, schools, and box stores can flush, is sure to get bioaersols in the air depending on what is there. And those toilets have no lids. And as was stated, many are now “auto-flush,” and you have to stand up real quick to avoid getting splashed.


61 posted on 04/23/2020 9:13:34 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: dp0622
Safest way yo flush is how we did it at the deer camp - which only had pup water so we had to pour a bucket of water in to flush it) by heeding the sign we had posted:

If it's Yellow
Let it Mellow

If it's Brown,
Flush it Down

And using a bucket to flush eliminates the main source of aerosols being emitted...smoooooooth...

62 posted on 04/24/2020 2:27:52 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: trebb

That’s true. It is the safest way

Every now and then I get slapped in the face with water when a public restroom when it’s too strong!


63 posted on 04/24/2020 4:01:05 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Texan4Life

The author deserves a dirty swirly.


64 posted on 04/24/2020 4:02:23 AM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: sonova

Good to know, I will definitely try that trick :) And yeah they can be a nuisance. My workplace can be noisy and when I have needed to make a quick call in a private place it is in the bathroom sometimes hehe. Lo and behold this is when the darn thing decides to go nuts and just keeps flushing over and over.


65 posted on 04/24/2020 4:31:16 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: MayflowerMadam

It has a pretty powerful flush. I try to look at it as it’s keeping the bowl cleaner between persons. But it could be spraying the nasty unseen germs quite more effectively. I just know it’s not saving water that’s for sure.


66 posted on 04/24/2020 4:36:41 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: hoagy62

I cannot look at idiots in the eye running around in public donning face mask. Face masks are the new dunce cap.


67 posted on 04/24/2020 4:45:41 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Texan4Life

So put a swimming pool chlorine puck into your toilet tank. Avoid public restrooms. Problem solved


68 posted on 04/24/2020 10:41:43 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: central_va

People wearing masks as they are jogging. They don’t need the mask for bad air quality. Air quality has improved with the lockdown.


69 posted on 04/24/2020 9:02:01 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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