Posted on 04/10/2021 7:47:00 AM PDT by Hojczyk
On April 5, however, the CDC page was replaced “In most situations, the risk of infection from touching a surface is low.” Oh is that so?
The link goes to the following:
Quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) studies have been conducted to understand and characterize the relative risk of SARS-CoV-2 fomite transmission and evaluate the need for and effectiveness of prevention measures to reduce risk. Findings of these studies suggest that the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection via the fomite transmission route is low, and generally less than 1 in 10,000, which means that each contact with a contaminated surface has less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of causing an infection.
Whoops.
So much for the many billions spent on cleaning products, the employees and the time, and hysteria and frenzy, the rise of touchlessness, and gloves, the dousing of the whole world. The science apparently changed. Still it will be years before people get the news and act on it. Once the myths of surface transmission of a respiratory virus are unleashed, it will be hard to go back to normal.
Fortunately the New York Times did some accurate reporting on the CDC update, quoting all kinds of experts who claim to have known this all along.
“Finally,” said Linsey Marr, an expert on airborne viruses at Virginia Tech. “We’ve known this for a long time and yet people are still focusing so much on surface cleaning.” She added, “There’s really no evidence that anyone has ever gotten Covid-19 by touching a contaminated surface.”
Still, I’m willing to bet that if right now I headed to a WalMart or some other large chain store, there will be several employees dedicated to disinfecting everything they can, and there will be customers there who demand it to be so.
(Excerpt) Read more at aier.org ...
I clean house, but don’t use cleaning supplies. Vinegar and borax are sufficient for most jobs. The overpriced products from stores are too harsh (I’m on a septic system) and smell up the place.
I guess you can say Castile soap is a cleaning product which I buy, but not the “disinfecting” kind.
I have been using diluted ammonia for 60 years......works for me.
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I don’t, use the Kroger App on it, but rarely make calls or answer. I’ll be 73 in Aug, have Meniere’s hearing loss, hearing aids that are a decade old, from the first attack at 62, I hear enough with speaker phone to tell if a call is answered. Then I can tell hubby to come get me, if the car won’t start. He then can either jump it, or call tow truck. On Star calls your car’s dealership, not nearest towing service. Otherwise takes up room in my purse. Since there are NO public phones anymore. Nor do we have a landline. Just a Zip line for the computer-Wi-Fi.
MY BODY, MY CHOICE to wear a mask or get COVID, FLU or other vaccines. Have a colon screen the Gastro says I need, I’d rather he remove the 2 pre-cancers in my Esophagus, very little likely hood of a Polyp, now than 10 yrs ago. Run a Colo-guard test. Cut off age is 80.
That’s not a good think
Ever hear of fecal coliform bacteria...shopping carts contaminated by people who dont wash hands after...you know...the thing
Probably needed it. LOL
AOC and her squad...
LOL! Now I’m never going to be able use that stuff without saying that.
A cleaner and de-greaser much used by the US Army.
People these days are disgusting.
I know of several coworkers (they make well over $120k) who probably only shower twice a week since Covid hit.
God knows how often they brush their teeth/wash their hands since the ones I’m thinking of are single.
I can only imagine how much worse the general population is considering the dysfunctional society that America has become.
“Syenz” is such a wonderful thing. Posing as REAL science, almost any proclamation made by the “authorities” was deemed to be Holy Scripture, to be departed from only on pain of eternal damnation.
Most people do not take organized religion that seriously. Why should “Syenz” be given such superstitious awe? In early 2020, all kinds of worrying extrapolations were made, forecasting an epidemic that would make the Spanish influenza world-wide in the period of 1918-1920, one of the most feared plagues since the Black Plague of the Middle Ages, seem like a bad cold.
But it turns out, the COVID-19 Wuhan virus is neither as infectious nor anywhere nearly as deadly as the Spanish influenza. For those who progressed to the later stages of the disease, the devastation was deadly, but very early on, there were a number of therapeutic practices that arrested the progression of the disease BEFORE it reached its end stages, and recovery with no lingering aftereffects was pretty much the norm. Some people, probably with a great deal of natural immunity already, were almost entirely asymptomatic, and while they COULD transmit the disease, the effects were almost always short-term and of low probability, very little from surfaces to inhalation.
Sunshine and fresh air mitigate against almost any infectious disease caused by pathogens, bacterial, viral or most any other microorganism. UV-C light and ozone generators reach almost everywhere that is enclosed and not in direct sunlight.
Who trusts the CDC?
Now they’re saying social distancing is a crock, masks don’t work and now you can’t catch it at Wally World. So, how is it transmitted?
I know, they had these wipes out before the scamdemic. They probably looked at how much it was costing them and petitioned the CDC to change the protocol.
I am not certain if I agree with you. When I first heard about it over 20 years ago, it was advertised as being safe to be used in kitchens around food products to remove animal grease.
All of the Marine Corps mess halls started using it, because it is cheap and safe.
The problem the Corps found was that it started being used in the vehicle repair shops. It breaks down petroleum products really well, so well that the petroleum products were escaping the oil/water separators and going straight into the rivers.
I keep a gallon around for general purposes, because it is cheap and it works.
Most of the time when I stop at a fast food place, I see employees scrubbing their surroundings. Everyone is Felix Unger now.
Is it just me or do you think it might be unwise to scrub the floor where you’re actively cooking meals? It must kick up a lot of bacteria.
Wash your phone, your groceries, wash, wash, until your hands are so raw that it’s much easier for a virus to get through your skin!
And wear that useless mask too! A friend of mine has picked up a bad case of acne in the past year — 40hr week, retail, masks mandatory.
409 is a miracle product. When I lived in California, I used to get ants in my house during the dry season. They would March in by the thousands in long dark lines. I tried every ant spray, powder, pest control product out there. The cotton balls soaked in whatever. I ended up with a gross, sticky, smelly, oily mess that the ants would actually walk through. One day I took out the spray bottle of 409 to clean up the oily stuff and half-dead, struggling ants off the floor and they all died the second that spray hit them. Not half dead and wandering like when I sprayed ant spray directly on them, but dead like nuclear blast dead. The pesticide cleaned up like magic and the best part was...the ants never would cross the 409 line again.
I have always wiped down shopping carts. There have been studies that have shown how filthy they are. Especially if someone uses the bathroom, does not wash their hands and goes to a grocery store, touching the cart handle.
Shopping carts are contaminated by third world peoples leaving their kids’ sh!tty diapers in them. Like feral animals. I propose the stores continue hosing down the carts with bleach from here on out. I’ve seen too many things living in this border city.
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