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> At the end of the day, placebo buttons do little harm and may well do a bit of good. Except for the fact that all of those buttons are contaminated with germ
by dlandis 10y ago
> At the end of the day, placebo buttons do little harm and may well do a bit of good.
Except for the fact that all of those buttons are contaminated with germs. If one person contaminates a walk button at a busy intersection with the flu virus, how many hundreds of other people will be exposed to that over the next few hours? How many people will they expose?
- chmars 10y agoEasily mitigated by washing your hands and keeping up with other standard hygiene measures. With the words of Douglas Adams: Don't panic! :)
- MertsA 10y agoIt's more easily mitigated by not placing a useless button in a high traffic area.
- dlandis 10y agoDo you think everyone diligently follows those practices though, or depending on their background, even knows about them? Even conscientious people have lapses where they touch their eyes or mouth after touching something like that.