Posted on 03/13/2020 8:02:50 AM PDT by Salman
The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians and environmentalists have been so eager to impose on the public. These reusable tote bags can sustain the COVID-19 and flu viruses—and spread the viruses throughout the store.
Researchers have been warning for years about the risks of these bags spreading deadly viral and bacterial diseases, but public officials have ignored their concerns, determined to eliminate single-use bags and other plastic products despite their obvious advantages in reducing the spread of pathogens. In New York State, a new law took effect this month banning single-use plastic bags in most retail businesses, and this week Democratic state legislators advanced a bill that would force coffee shops to accept consumers’ reusable cups—a practice that Starbucks and other chains have wisely suspended to avoid spreading the COVID-19 virus.
John Flanagan, the Republican leader of the New York State Senate, has criticized the new legislation and called for a suspension of the law banning plastic bags. “Senate Democrats’ desperate need to be green is unclean during the coronavirus outbreak,” he said Tuesday, but so far he’s been a lonely voice among public officials.
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we will never learn
I highly doubt anyone washes their reusable bags. I can’t imagine what’s contaminated on them...leaking meat, dairy...they get throw on the floor of a bus, a car, a house.
It’s pretty disgusting, honestly.
We’ve been shopping at Aldi’s with reusable folding boxes for a decade and I don’t think they’ve ever been cleaned.
On my way to the doctor for a Coronovirus checkup....
I have watched people dragging a slew of them into the store, so cruddy, I wouldn’t take home something for my dogs to eat, in them.
The *only* thing I “reuse” is a folding cooler tote to put my *bagged* cold stuff in.
My dad needed a bone marrow transplant back in 2012. Our whole family had to have a meeting with the doctors beforehand about proper sanitary behaviors and besides the obvious hand washing, the two that i didn’t think about before were Lysol spraying shoes before we come in the house and avoiding usage of anything “reusable” like bags to store his clothes, food or medicine.
It’s been with me since.
Very practical.
On a similar note, when I come home from shopping, I go straight upstairs and change my clothes and shoes so I don’t accidentally track in anything my dogs could catch.
The single use bags from the stores become trash bags every two weeks and never used for anything else.
Almost as filthy a the missus’ designer purse that gets set on the floor in the restroom stall and other grimey places. Eeewwww!!
If i don’t use plastic shopping bags for small trash cans, I’d have to buy more plastic bags for small trash cans...so...I’m saving the environment by conservation.
My bags get washed every 2 weeks unless there is a leak, then they are washed with the next load.
Not everyone is a slob.
Yup.
And the big bags ROSS has are great for bigger bins.
What about money? Can money spread the virus?
BUT IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN!!!
There’s always an “unintended” consequence.
These “unintended” consequences should have been foreseen. Any reasonable person would have foreseen them. Since they went ahead and passed their idiot laws without thinking, then they are responsible for the “unintended” consequences, as if they had foreseen them and directly intended them.
So wash the dumb bags already!
It disappeared from the news pretty quick, but I believe a huge amount of counterfeit US money was recently found. The funny thing was that it was all $1 bills. No one counterfeits $1 bills. That’s crazy! But — if you planned to infect the money and then spread it around, it would be a very effective biowarfare delivery device.
If covid cash is keeping you up at night I’ll take it off your hands
bkmk
:-)!!
How cashless will soon be popularized...”We must rid ourselves of paper money and coin for we cannot guarantee that such instruments can be kept sanitary and not be the sources of dangerous contagions!”
Then the screens that they have you sign with your fingers will be banned, even if you use a stylus, even a personal stylus that you keep clean because all the grease and oils from hands will spread contagion. Then cards, even the cards that have “tapping’ features because they too will have everyone’s germs on them. Ohh well, we’ll all have to have them put on our right hands or fore-heads that can be radio scanned with no touch involved....
Watch for articles that begin to push this notion of ‘infection control”. It’s all to keep us safe....right?/s
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