> washing hands
Can we please drop this from COVID discussions? COVID isn’t spread by touch. That was apparent early on, but a lot of energy and resources were still diverted from “things that work” to a cleaning fetish.
Can we please drop this from COVID discussions? COVID isn’t spread by touch. That was apparent early on, but a lot of energy and resources were still diverted from “things that work” to a cleaning fetish.
COVID's primary means of infection certainly isn't touch, but that doesn't preclude getting the droplets on your hands and introducing them by touching your face.
so the whole touching your face is a red herring
I am sure you and I and everyone else, has lots of things on their faces at all times
At that point, it seems kind of obvious that washing your hands reduces disease. But for cultures that have more "advanced" bathroom ritual, is hand washing beyond cleaning literal shit off your hands actually effective? I can't imagine that a person could dedicate enough time to hand washing versus the amount of times they touch things and their faces, to make it a practice with good enough adherence rates to be considered useful policy.
I believe it's been shown extensively in military studies as a means to reducing respiratory illnesses.
Their post wasn't only about covid.