Posted on 03/02/2020 4:25:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
Coronavirus panic has anxious New Yorkers swarming drugstores and supermarkets for germ-killers. And with public-health specialists stressing the importance of keeping your hands clean during a viral outbreak, hand soaps and sanitizers are flying off the shelves.
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“From what we know about this coronavirus, it’s similar to [previous epidemics of] SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome] and MERS [Middle East respiratory syndrome], so it should not be that difficult of a microorganism to kill,” Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, medical director of the special pathogens unit at Boston Medical Center, tells The Post. “Soap and water, and alcohol-based hand sanitizers, can kill it.”
As for what’s most effective, she and other experts agree that washing your hands is generally the better choice: It’s more effective at removing stubborn grime — which bugs can cling to, and potentially feed on — and at killing certain pathogens. Lathering up will also help you ward off more than coronavirus. “It’s going to protect you from other infectious diseases, too, like the flu and diarrheal diseases,” Bhadelia says.
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Avoiding Liberal enclaves helps, too.
Soap. Vitamin C. Sunshine.
And keeping away from people in general.
Good old soap and water - and a brush wouldn’t hurt, for under nails and stuff.
I wash my hands often, always have. I usually just use soap but every now and then do use anti-bacterial soap.
I don’t know which is the best way.
Send everything you make to the government, stat......
Wash your hands, carry wipes with you in case grocery or drug store is out of the ones furnished for wiping down the cart. Or wiping down door knobs and have hand sanitizer just in case you need it. There, that answers that.
For giggles, have your soap and hand sanitizer dispensers tested for bacteria. Or your computer keyboard for that matter.
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“Coronavirus panic has anxious New Yorkers swarming drugstores and supermarkets for germ-killers.”
Do these people not own hand soap on a normal day?
Coincidentally I was washing my hands with my massive jug of Dial antibacterial soap while reading this that I’ve had for a long time, and these people are just now buying some?
Go down to skid row and get an alcoholic hand sanitizer.
Bleach pretty much kills everything. I carry a small diluted spray container of a bleach mixture in my purse and car. If I am forced to use a public bathroom, I use it.
If ya got it, washing your hands can atomize infected water particles thereby passing it to others. Now what.
Hand sanitizer is awful. Use 91% isopropyl alcohol for best results. Douse hands and squeeze to get it under your fingernails too.
Avoid the masses.
Stay at home.
Have a garden.
Can your own food.
Slobovians say that it’s hand sanitizer.
So, having Bingo, the neighbor’s new Cocker Spaniel puppy lick my fingers clean ain’t good enough?
The only thing anti-bacterial soap does better than a vigorous lathering with plain soap is to foster the creation of resistant bacteria.
I have a fingernail brush in all the sinks and showers.
It’s more hygienic and dirty fingernails are simply....unattractive.
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