The coronavirus is overwhelmingly spread through the air, not via surfaces.

[Yavin4]

Last week, the CDC acknowledged what many of us have been saying for almost nine months about cleaning surfaces to prevent transmission by touch of the coronavirus: It’s pure hygiene theater.

“Based on available epidemiological data and studies of environmental transmission factors,” the CDC concluded, “surface transmission is not the main route by which SARS-CoV-2 spreads, and the risk is considered to be low.” In other words: You can put away the bleach, cancel your recurring Amazon subscription for disinfectant wipes, and stop punishing every square inch of classroom floor, restaurant table, and train seat with high-tech antimicrobial blasts. COVID-19 is airborne: It spreads through tiny aerosolized droplets that linger in the air in unventilated spaces. Touching stuff just doesn’t carry much risk, and more people should say so, very loudly.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/end-hygiene-theater/618576/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

[Ocelot II]

1. I posted this article the other day

and rather surprisingly got a ration of crap for it. I stopped frantically disinfecting my groceries and Amazon packages last summer after reading some early research to the effect that there seemed to be little evidence of transmission via fomites, though I continue to wash my hands after being outside.

[dweller]

2. ' more people should say so, very loudly '

Isn’t that how it’s spread ?
🤔

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[bottomofthehill]

3. Great, now that I can finally buy Clorox wipes

I don’t need them.