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What's on Your Hands?
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I recently read an article that states that soap can annihilate the coronavirus along with 1 in 5 respiratory infections from your hands. Good news! The article explains: Viruses surrounded by fat-based envelopes move around in water-based liquids. Soap reacts and destroys that envelope of water and fat. Soap grabs more and more pieces of the fat-based envelope and pops the coronavirus’ protective balloon. Water washes the remains down the drain. The article also mentions that any kind of soap works great even antibacterial. Hand sanitizer is a good substitute for soap and water but with 60% alcohol. The article...
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Cleaning and disinfecting in 1918…a formaldehyde fumigator?
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In the mid-1900s, during the Spanish Flu pandemic, and automobile factory was one of the cleanest in the world. Every 24 hours items that were touched were sterilized, even coat racks were disinfected. Rubbish was cleaned 12 times a day and thousands of janitors did nothing else but clean. Sound familiar? It has been said history repeats itself … similar to today’s COVID-19 cleaning practices? Luckily, we have the help in the form of modern cleaning supplies and disinfectants that they could not have had like modern antibacterial soap, non-touch urinals and cartridges and new urinal disinfectants. One lesson learned...
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