Is It time for the government to start to Irradiate our money,   notes and coins,  to alleviate the spread from contacting  $$$  surfaces.?.

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Its said, the surfaces cam maintain live SARS virus,  for 9 a day period.

"" Some studies on other coronaviruses, including Sars and Mers, found they can survive on metal, glass and plastic for as long as nine days, unless they are properly disinfected. ""

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200317-covid-19-how-long-does-the-coronavirus-last-on-surfaces

Edited March 18, 20205 yr by MyFavouriteMartian

9 minutes ago, MyFavouriteMartian said:

Is It time for the government to start to Irradiate our money,   notes and coins,  to alleviate the spread from contacting  $$$  surfaces.?

I hardly use cash anymore. 

Moving the thread to the General Section. 

cash money What is that??

The smartest move is to pay by card. If you can’t avoid cash, then you take your chances. There’s no way that all money already in circulation can be irradiated and if an attempt was made, the danger would have passed by the time the task was completed.

Most spending occurs digitally these days. The private banks issue loans by crediting debtors' bank accounts. The central banks spend by crediting bank accounts - overt monetary financing it's called.

I did think about this the other day though. We're quite lucky that most transactions are digital these days. I'm sure it's stopped the spread to some degree.

I recall during the Ads crisis (can anyone remember that), which was a blood borne transmission, that it was pointed out to me that the greatest spreader of disease was cash.

especially men who wipe, sneeze, blow nose into a cloth and stuff it into their pockry, conveniently located near their body(groin) which is maintained at a perfect temperature for incubating  any virus. 

Money is then put into the pocket to pick up any stray remnants of anything that may be surviving.

Like the argument that peanut bowls on pub counters contain overwhelming traces of urine from men who fail to wash their hands appropriately after visiting the toilet this may be an apocryphal tale, but it is just another indication of the complicated risks that life throws at our human face.