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86944 wrote

I got some old brass door knobs for my bathrooms last month. And I'm planning on copper plating some other common touch surfaces. Hard part is finding bare metal fixtures.

It may not help against the rona but antibiotic resistance is a creeping menace. And it will help against that.

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Hibiscus_Syrup OP wrote (edited )

This was interesting.

Anyway here's another article from the NYT:
Copper Won’t Save You From Coronavirus: Pandemic fears have created interest in metallic products touting antimicrobial properties. But experts have doubts about the copper craze.

tldr seems it's good for keeping surfaces clean and that hospitals should have copper where people touch things, but it doesn't really help for aerosols. It just kills mircobes it comes into contact with physically. Other claims seem unclear.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

nothing is going to beat just staying away from other people or getting vaccinated, imo.

Capitalists will always look to sell some miracle cure or preventative trick, but, i think it's of limited utility imho.

i think touching surfaces, outside of clinical or hygeine environments, is a negligible transmission vector.

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Hibiscus_Syrup OP wrote (edited )

Capitalists will always look to sell some miracle cure or preventative trick, but, i think it's of limited utility imho.

I don't think they're trying to sell it here, mostly just writing an interesting article about stuff copper does, that also doubles as clickbait.

i think touching surfaces, outside of clinical or hygeine environments, is a negligible transmission vector.

Yeah for covid it's the aerosols so far as I understand.

nothing is going to beat just staying away from other people

On a personal note, this is true, but it is also a big pain for me.

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