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I’m fairly certain information like this or similar was communicated very early on in the pandemic. A lot of people I know were sanitizing things from the groce
by dominostars 6y ago
I’m fairly certain information like this or similar was communicated very early on in the pandemic. A lot of people I know were sanitizing things from the grocery store for the first few weeks but then it quickly spread that surface transmission was very rare so everyone stopped.
- hanselot 6y agoTalk a world of bull**, every single place in my country has hand sanitizer and cleans every surface religiously. Watch them astroturf their megaplague to hide the fact that they were distracting the world from Maxwell and Epstein.
- mrkeen 6y agoHow do you link hand sanitizer to Maxwell and Epstein?
- michaelmrose 6y agoFair question but at some degree of bad faith flagging and moving on is more effective.
- CoastalCoder 5y agoProbably true. The challenge (for me, at least) is discerning bad faith from other, more correctable issues in a conversation.
- michaelmrose 5y agoAs I speak to someone with a recently created account the irony is palpable but people who are overt trolls or who make a habit of speaking in bad faith are liable to be banned eventually instead of accruing a longer history and karma. If the account has little karma or comment history and appears to be behaving badly its more likely to be a problem child.
- hanselot 6y agoBy looking at when the arrests were made. Pretty simple, the only thing that was going to derail that narrative happens coincidentally at exactly the right time for people to forget about it? You are telling me that at this point you are still buying the narrative they shove down your throat on every single platform?
- brundolf 6y agoWe've continued cleaning deliveries just to be double-safe, but yes I got this rough impression fairly early on. Glad to see it confirmed with more data.
- approxim8ion 6y agoYeah, same. It's kind of become a mindset now, and the way I see it, the habit is a net positive so I will likely retain it for years to come.
- elisaado 6y agoCare to tell me how it is a net positive? What kind of germs/virussus are you cleaning off that you wouldn't have come in contact with in the grocery store itself?
- approxim8ion 6y agoI was mostly talking about deliveries, but fair point.
- bartvk 6y agoA net positive in what sense? What is positive about it?
- turing_complete 6y agoOpportunity cost. Keep in mind that those conditional probabilities multiply: Surface has been contaminated * chance of transmission * chance of dying All three are (for most people here) similarly small numbers. Do you want to spend your time doing something that can save you with probability < 1/(10^15)?
- baud147258 6y agoI think the idea is that you're cleaning not just Covid-19, but also any other kind of contaminant
- cm2187 6y agoI am not sure that's true. In fact applying hydroalcoholic gels regularly is still recommended and often mandatory in many places (I was not allowed in at my dentist last week if I did not use it).
- alkonaut 6y agoI don't know (or heard about) anyone who wiped down a cereal box or similar in the last year. This probably varies by country and the communication that was there early last year.
- HWR_14 5y agoI haven't wiped down anything shelf-stable in the last year, but Fauci said early on he throws packages in the corner for 3 days before touching them. It costs little for me to follow that rule, so I just buy cereal when I still have at least 3 days worth.