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But my sanitizing gel says it kills 99.99% of all bacteria and viruses!
by xvedejas 7y ago
But my sanitizing gel says it kills 99.99% of all bacteria and viruses!
- gibolt 7y agoDoesn't specify the effective area. Does every use wipe out the vast majority on the planet?
- IgorPartola 7y agoOf course. If you throw some bacteria into a gallon of hand sanitizer then put it all in a blender to ensure good mixing, I am certain it will. But that’s not how you’d actually use it, right?
- masonic 7y ago... leaving only the hardiest survivors, who now replicate in no time, now with resistance.
- aarongolliver 7y agothey don't have resistance
- masonic 7y agoOf course bacteria have resistance. Bacteria mutate, some random mutation will be resistant to a given antibiotic, and that new strain will propagate and dominate. Lots of people fall to understand that, which is why we have antibiotic-resistant strains of gonorrhea in the wild now.
- aarongolliver 7y agoHand sanitizers use alcohol, not the same thing as a "prescription" antibiotic. The same resistance arguments do not really apply the same way.
- masonic 7y agoMany use triclosan, which was even legal in the US until last year, so a lot of it is still in consumer hands.