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COVID19 lives for 3 hours in air. 2-3 days on stainless steel and plastic. Only 4 hours on copper, which is why all door handles should be copper! Other anti-vi
by RichardHeart 7y ago
COVID19 lives for 3 hours in air. 2-3 days on stainless steel and plastic. Only 4 hours on copper, which is why all door handles should be copper! Other anti-viral and bacterial materials are available as well.
- heretoo 7y agoor everyone should wear copper gloves
- Someone1234 7y agoHow would that help? A gloved hand can still pick up surface viral load and transfer it to the face. The nice thing about anti-viral surfaces like copper is that it reduces surface virus, a glove doesn't do that.
- GuB-42 7y agoOr gloves filled with mercury... Obviously, that's a joke but it is probably not as bad as you might think. Liquid elemental mercury is relatively harmless. Compare to mercury vapor, which is bad, and organic mercury, which is worse than bad.
- scrumbledober 7y agoprobably bronze for durability but yes this is why a huge amount of door knobs are already made out of bronze. (they also look real cool when they wear with age)
- sam_lowry_ 7y agoGold or silver
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- GloriousKoji 7y agoCopper is probably the best out of the available materials given availability, price, human toxicity, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodynamic_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodynamic_effect