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“ More than just dirt, house dust is a mix of sloughed-off skin cells, hair, clothing fibers, bacteria, dust mites, bits of dead bugs, soil particles, pollen, a
by mattmaroon 6y ago
“ More than just dirt, house dust is a mix of sloughed-off skin cells, hair, clothing fibers, bacteria, dust mites, bits of dead bugs, soil particles, pollen, and microscopic specks of plastic”
Most of those have nothing to do with carpet or furniture. And it’s hard to imagine that whatever a vacuum does to kick them up is worse for you than just breathing them in all the time and disturbing them when you walk.
But really, that’s a case for a robot vacuum because it can eliminate the stuff when you’re not there.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoYou are basically dismissing my firsthand experience. Maybe that's not your intent, but you start off It seems really unlikely that vacuuming is worse for your health than not vacuuming. I'm telling you from firsthand experience that I don't have a lot of dust and my health is better these days and I don't own a vacuum. I'm not asking you to give up your vacuum. If you want citations supporting the idea that vacuums can spread germs and particulates, here's one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3811220/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3811220/ If you want to continue to imply that I'm wrong to choose to live without a vacuum cleaner, I'm done. That's out of bounds for debate. It's a personal choice.
- mattmaroon 6y agoThere’s basically no chance that’s real but I don’t want to get into one of those weird HN arguments about whether or not vacuums can really make someone less healthy in response to an article about an AWS outage so you do you!