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Re:Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close by javagram on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:43PM (#22435619)
Touching the soap doesn’t matter at all. You’re about to wash it all off your hands.

Soap and water definitely work to reduce infections, even when using a shared sink. Look up what happened in the 19th century when people finally figured this out and started hand washing regularly, infectious disease transmission in settings like hospitals dropped dramatically.

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Re:Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close by copperx on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:21PM (#22436065)
In the 19th century infections were cut drastically when hands were washed with water only. Imagine what soap can do.
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Re:Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close by literallycancer on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:08PM (#22438485)
They started from not washing hands between autopsies and surgeries though. Talk about low hanging fruit.
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