08-04-2020, 05:18 PM
(08-04-2020, 02:05 PM)Mer Wrote: How is it any safer to have groceries delivered to you from someone that just walked around the same store you're trying to avoid? You don't know where any of these people have been before they show up at your door step even if it's through Amazon or another online store.
BTW, I'm sorry to hear your mom has leukemia.
The more people you come into contact with the greater your chance to come into contact with someone who is infected and becoming infected yourself.
That's just common sense.
(08-04-2020, 02:59 PM)Mer Wrote: If you can only catch it from someone person to person then what's the purpose of disinfecting credit card readers and counter tops? If the virus can linger there it can linger on what ever is left at your door.
It's spread through respiratory droplets. When someone coughs, sneezes, or even talks small droplets of virus containing mucous are expelled into the air. Most droplets fall out of the air within 6 feet. So most people who get infected do so by inhaling the droplets. The virus is viable on surfaces for short periods of time. So if someone sneezes on a card reader or coughs into their hand without washing it before using the card reader they can transfer droplets to the reader. If someone uses the reader right afterwards then touches their nose, mouth, or eyes they can infect themselves. Disinfecting surfaces helps reduce that spread.
This is basic germ theory and principles of antisepsis that a biological MD/science teacher should already understand.
(08-04-2020, 03:15 PM)Mer Wrote: I'm not trying to defend anything. I'm just asking questions. The truth is we don't really know if any of these procedures truly work.
Antiseptics have been proven since the days of Joseph Lister in the 19th century. Go to any hospital if you have questions.
Your constant spamming of Covid 19 related misinformation should get you banned.
