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www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/human-coronavirus-sanitation-booths-trialled-19027612

Disinfectant booths.
Would you walk through these? I would but after a while would worry about long term effects.
I know they won't help if people have caught the virus but will kill 99.9% of virus on your surface.

nah, because making me cough for a long while is going to be counterproductive.

I would

Can't see any harm

I had suggested a covid bath, similar to the footbath at the swimming pool. Wish I had put more thought into it now!

If it really works on noroviruses too, it sounds like an excellent thing for going into/ out of hospitals, care homes and schools. Shops, sure, but lower priority.

I would choose to walk through one on the way out of a shop, and would go through one on the way in if requested.

Horrendous. Is there even any evidence for clothing being an effective “vector” for the virus? I would hazard a guess that it’s really very minimal and this company are doing nothing more than seizing an opportunity to sell their product and profit from situation.

Hmm, not sure how effective that will be - is there much transmission via clothes? It isn’t going to disinfect your coughs and sneezes.

Still, no harm in trialling it. I can definitely see potential advantages using it at the door of norovirus wards, in and out of hospital side rooms, etc for illnesses that are primarily transmitted by contact.

And how do we know it eveb works?

Dont tell me some council paid thousands if pounds to a tech company for something no one really knows works or that they did t catch it straight after getting the bus home?

Seems counter productive too I mean we already know from the masks that now they have masks they feel distancing is no longer necessary and track n trace now requires you to approach potentially positive customers and handle the paper they touch or the book they sign in on. Wont this just make people think that those measures no longer apply cos they walked in a boothalso previously used by potentially positive people

No. Either I am infected, in which case I’ll be breathing and sneezing and coughing out virus anyway. Or I’m not, in which case the chances that my clothing has somehow accumulated enough virus from someone else by walking around a shop or sitting in a chair at a cafe or browsing a shop to then transmit to a third party are pretty tiny. Hygiene theatre, and I file it with street disinfecting as “people like to feel they’re in control and doing something”.

I do wonder what will happen to rates of allergies, skin conditions, even leukaemia if we keep killing off so many germs and viruses that are for the most part harmless.

I do wonder what will happen to rates of allergies, skin conditions, even leukaemia if we keep killing off so many germs and viruses that are for the most part harmless

The kids have been back at school like 2 or 3 weeks and they all have colds already. And thats after 6 months. Yes they face potentially becoming seriously ill having not had the exposure

Is this a joke? No I would not want to inhale whatever anti bac they are fogging you with. I’m also not remotely worried about covid being on my clothes. Would love to see the evidence this actually works and isn’t detrimental to human health.

What a thrilling innovation; a hybrid of gas chamber and sheep dip.

It looks overly performative to me. I'm not sure what it's actually supposed to do, beyond look impressive and vaguely authoritarian. It's hygiene theatre again.

And it feels based on my understanding of how this virus gets passed around almost entirely pointless. It doesn't stop a person who is already infected with coronavirus continuing to exhale viral particles, even after they've walked through this chamber of horrors. And it doesn't stop anyone else from breathing them in, likewise.

As I understand it, there have so far been no credible documented cases of coronavirus being transmitted solely by clothing (or shoes).

So it feels like a sledgehammer to crack a nut, or a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

Not for me at the moment I'm afraid. The school I work in uses fogging machines to disinfect the classrooms once the kids have left for the day. They would also use them if there were a potential outbreak - so the rooms that the class used would be emptied and fogged.

The key word there is 'emptied'. The rooms are fogged after the kids have gone and the operative wears full haz-mat gear including a respirator just to be on the safe side. So I don't think I'll be rushing.

Is this peak Covid?