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Yeah, I don't know of any particular harm linked to it, it just seems like something we'd never let kids do these days just in case, since "apply magical chemic

Yeah, I don't know of any particular harm linked to it, it just seems like something we'd never let kids do these days just in case, since "apply magical chemical, it fixes everything and is entirely safe!" has a history of being wrong about the "entirely safe" part. These days I'd expect any plan that includes "we'll spray clouds of this in neighborhoods" to get shut down before it can even start, for that reason.

sandworm101 6y ago
Except cholrine in pools. And soap. Soap has all sorts of chemicals in it. And perfume. The reality is that we soak ourselves in various chemicals every day. What if that truck was spaying hand sanitizer? It is the chemical that matters, not the method of distribution.
- spanhandler 6y ago
  I think you're thinking I'm in the "ZOMG ban dihydrogen monoxide, it's a chemical!" crowd, and I'm not sure why you think that. Also, yes, I'm pretty sure you'd have a hard time convincing people to let you spray hand sanitizer all over their neighborhood, these days, even if they're OK with rubbing it on their hands.
- tomjakubowski 6y ago
  > It is the chemical that matters, not the method of distribution. Would you apply hand sanitizer to your hands? Would you drink a bottle of it?
- smileysteve 6y ago
  > It is the chemical that matters, not the method of distribution Found the person that didn't see Batman Begins; If you think dancing around in aerosol'ed hand sanitizer would be okay, you've clearly never gotten alcohol in your eye, nose, or dare I say throat. Perfume is also a really interesting one, because some of us do sneeze every time we smell Abercrombie or do start anaphylaxis around flowers or other certain plants. Which comes right around to soap, which, yes, people are allergic to dyes and fragrances in, so we make pure and hypoallergenic. Chlorine, in pools; We've made drastic progress on that one in society in the last 30 years; from barrels of chlorine when we didn't understand it, to carefully measuring it, to now we have salt reactors that continuously meter it.
- ekianjo 6y ago
  Soap does not enter your body. There is something called skin barrier.
  - ithkuil 6y ago
    I think the point was that we know it's safe (e.g. due to the skin barrier as you mentioned) and we're not likely to change our opinion about soap safety in a decade. In other words, despite there being many cases of egregious mistakes in safety assumptions due to our bad understanding of science (and/or malice) in the past, we're tempted nowadays to err on the side of caution and probably overestimate the ratio of chemicals we use in our daily life that turned out to be bad, to the ones that we got right. Sizeable parts of the populace nowadays associates the word chemical with unhealthy. Yet, they buy products that have the word "natural" on it, crafted by mixing and processing products of natural origin. But nature is full of chemicals. Mixing them and processing them, grinding them, heating them up, etc, is what chemical processing is about.
  - sandworm101 6y ago
    Does it have a sent? Then it is entering your lungs. This was a big deal a few years ago as sandlewood sents in many soaps were linked to hormonal changes in young males.
    - ekianjo 6y ago
      Scent can be created with as little a few ppm to ppb levels of substances in the air. Most of the typical substances that smell are in too low in concentration to do any harm.
- Larrikin 6y ago
  Perfume/colognes popularity seems to wane around the same age group of people who grew up being ok being doused in pesticide. That age group is of course country dependent, but seems to track together

sandworm101 6y ago

Except cholrine in pools. And soap. Soap has all sorts of chemicals in it. And perfume. The reality is that we soak ourselves in various chemicals every day. What if that truck was spaying hand sanitizer? It is the chemical that matters, not the method of distribution.

spanhandler 6y ago
I think you're thinking I'm in the "ZOMG ban dihydrogen monoxide, it's a chemical!" crowd, and I'm not sure why you think that. Also, yes, I'm pretty sure you'd have a hard time convincing people to let you spray hand sanitizer all over their neighborhood, these days, even if they're OK with rubbing it on their hands.
tomjakubowski 6y ago
> It is the chemical that matters, not the method of distribution. Would you apply hand sanitizer to your hands? Would you drink a bottle of it?
smileysteve 6y ago
> It is the chemical that matters, not the method of distribution Found the person that didn't see Batman Begins; If you think dancing around in aerosol'ed hand sanitizer would be okay, you've clearly never gotten alcohol in your eye, nose, or dare I say throat. Perfume is also a really interesting one, because some of us do sneeze every time we smell Abercrombie or do start anaphylaxis around flowers or other certain plants. Which comes right around to soap, which, yes, people are allergic to dyes and fragrances in, so we make pure and hypoallergenic. Chlorine, in pools; We've made drastic progress on that one in society in the last 30 years; from barrels of chlorine when we didn't understand it, to carefully measuring it, to now we have salt reactors that continuously meter it.
ekianjo 6y ago
Soap does not enter your body. There is something called skin barrier.
- ithkuil 6y ago
  I think the point was that we know it's safe (e.g. due to the skin barrier as you mentioned) and we're not likely to change our opinion about soap safety in a decade. In other words, despite there being many cases of egregious mistakes in safety assumptions due to our bad understanding of science (and/or malice) in the past, we're tempted nowadays to err on the side of caution and probably overestimate the ratio of chemicals we use in our daily life that turned out to be bad, to the ones that we got right. Sizeable parts of the populace nowadays associates the word chemical with unhealthy. Yet, they buy products that have the word "natural" on it, crafted by mixing and processing products of natural origin. But nature is full of chemicals. Mixing them and processing them, grinding them, heating them up, etc, is what chemical processing is about.
- sandworm101 6y ago
  Does it have a sent? Then it is entering your lungs. This was a big deal a few years ago as sandlewood sents in many soaps were linked to hormonal changes in young males.
  - ekianjo 6y ago
    Scent can be created with as little a few ppm to ppb levels of substances in the air. Most of the typical substances that smell are in too low in concentration to do any harm.
Larrikin 6y ago
Perfume/colognes popularity seems to wane around the same age group of people who grew up being ok being doused in pesticide. That age group is of course country dependent, but seems to track together