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> as long as we're not sure, keep doing it There are diminishing returns in this caution principle, while the harm caused by the deluge of disinfection product
by alcover 6y ago
> as long as we're not sure, keep doing it
There are diminishing returns in this caution principle, while the harm caused by the deluge of disinfection products on the environment and ourselves certainly adds-up.
You can never be 100% sure you won't get infected through surface. By this logic you should spray sanitizers everywhere all the time.
- ohgodplsno 6y agoRight, how could I forget being pedantic and thinking that pushing arguments to their logical extreme is an argument in itself. This is HN after all. Disinfecting and cleaning your hands (even with soap. Noone's told you to douse your hands in alcohol every hour of the day) is as much for your protection as it is for others. Additionally, you can expect an average person to wash their hands maybe three to four times a day. Considering we have doctors and nurses that do this on the order of tens of times a day (and they all do it with hydroalcoholic solutions, which is the one thing that will damage your hands), the pretend harm caused to ourselves is bullshit.
- alcover 6y agoThat was pedantic indeed, sorry. My main concern really is the over-cleaning of surfaces. Those products are nasty.