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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by jaywalk on Monday January 10, 2022 @02:17PM (#29880159)
> As viruses can remain active on surfaces, unless you irradiate the deliveries with a UV lamp (and do it again after unboxing them, since there may be viruses on the actual item) even that would not be enough.

Covid does not spread in any meaningful way via surfaces. All of the cleaning and disinfecting nonsense that is still going on is pure theatre.

> Any way we choose, it amounts to sacrificing XYZk people so we can go back to living a normal life. I don't think that's an exchange most people are willing to take.

It's an exchange everyone makes every single day in order for society to function.

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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by Root_Denied on Monday January 10, 2022 @02:59PM (#29881125)
> Covid does not spread in any meaningful way via surfaces. All of the cleaning and disinfecting nonsense that is still going on is pure theatre.

You may be correct about covid, but cleaning surfaces helps to prevent other illnesses from spreading anyway. In a situation where hospitals are impacted there's a strong argument that such behavior and precautions leads to better healthcare outcomes.

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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by csdvrx on Monday January 10, 2022 @02:25PM (#29880339)
> Covid does not spread in any meaningful way via surfaces. All of the cleaning and disinfecting nonsense that is still going on is pure theatre.

It's a reasonable precaution take, at least until we know precisely how the virus could get to the isolated Belgian Antarctic base, where everyone was isolated for weeks and tested and retested prior to being sent there.

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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by jaywalk on Monday January 10, 2022 @02:30PM (#29880460)
It was a reasonable precaution to take in March of 2020. But enough studies have been done by now to show that it's no longer a reasonable precaution in general. We may never know how it got to that base, and even if we find out that it was via surface contamination, that doesn't invalidate everything else we know now.
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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by Tade0 on Monday January 10, 2022 @02:28PM (#29880407)
> It's an exchange everyone makes every single day in order for society to function.

Not at this rate though. In my country covid deaths are easily 20x that of traffic fatalities and the latter is seen as a serious social issue.

Also my friends in the medical profession are simply tired of doing 300h months.

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