Posted on 03/21/2020 4:11:29 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Other devices used to pay for items are just as likely to be vectors for disease transfer. Credit and debit cards are made of plastic and metal. ATMs are touched by hundreds of human hands a day. And there have been studies that show smartphones are heavily contaminated with bacteria because of their constant use.
Something tells me the "solution" coming will be a tattoo-like mark or device on the skin or implanted in the human body. It will be our ATM card, our ID, our CAC card, our VPN, our password, our passport, our drivers license, our medical records, and everything else.
Oh, and our global tracking device. In the wake of COVID-19, the powers that be are calling for increased tracking and monitoring of all citizens.
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Really, how about reusable shopping bags..?
If those are spreading WuFlu in CA and NYS, God help Sacramento and Albany...
Lysol spray your money
Use dollar coins and boil them.
The markets in my town are asking us to pay with a card. I carry a pencil and use the eraser to tap my pin number. Most of the customers have gloves on and the cashiers wipe the card readers down with disinfectant wipes every few customers. In spite of the precautions the first thing I do when I get home is wash my hands and use sanitizer.
I’ll take cash.
If this was true, bank tellers and store clerks would be disproportionately infected. There's nothing yet to indicate that.
All your cash are belong to us.
We only allow customers in our premises who are wearing haz-mat suits. said no smart business owner, ever. Well, at least not until last week.
I know. One of my business principles is to make it easy to pay.
It is legal tender, and so they have no right to refuse it.
Betting the left uses the current crisis to call for outlawing cash. Then they will slap a tax on all electronic transactions. Yes they will.
Aren’t we just taking this a little too far?
... and all the people who get paid “under the table”.
Good point Jon, don’t bother anyone with logic. The bottom line is any point of contact is a potential source of transmission. The hysteria may kill and injure more people than the Wuhan flu before all is said and done.
Then what does your eraser touch?
Are US banks taking this precaution ? Do these reporters think this fact is new ?
I tried washing the money I made but the ink washed off.
“Arent we just taking this a little too far?”
Apparently Howard Hughes was way ahead of his time. He probably would have come out of hiding if this thing continues in the hysterical direction it seems to be moving and all the sheeple that lack common sense.
Save the precious lysol. Just don’t use cash.
I signed up for Google Pay for the first time so I do not need to touch anything for the transaction.
No, the world will get there eventually. It will happen.
Perhaps sooner rather than later.
The powers that be never let a crisis go to waste.
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