Re:Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure ...
by kevinmchugh on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:06AM
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Businesses stock sanitizer because it's cheap and compatible with the status quo ante, not because there's any reason to believe it's effective.
We're still using lots of hand sanitizer here, because the combination of masks, social distancing, and hand sanitizer seems to work. Though, we could be mistaken about the relative effectiveness/necessity of the three measures. My office building has hand sanitizer dispensers in the entryway.
Yes, it's primarily a respiratory virus, but the cost of hand sanitization is pretty low and the virus remains infectious on most surfaces for several hours. Here in Hong Kong, we're one of the most dense cities on Earth, with a lot of public transit use, so surface contamination may be more of an issue here than in other places.