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The Velveteen Ocelot

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10. I'm not saying you shouldn't pay attention to surfaces;
Mon Dec 28, 2020, 11:06 PM
Dec 2020

only that it's not necessary to be paranoid about them wrt to covid19. Some viruses and bacteria do spread more readily from surfaces (norovirus, for example), and you can certainly get them from surfaces, but the science now seems to indicate that covid19 disintegrates on surfaces more rapidly than most others. Keep things clean, but more importantly, don't breathe other people's air. What they are telling us is that we really don't have to scrub our groceries or Amazon packages with Lysol.

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