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mindblowingscience:

A really good article about how the excessive focus on cleaning/surface transmission of COVID-19 has been vastly overemphasized to the detriment of preventing transmission from respiratory droplets/aerosols. In a similar way that a lot of the post-9/11 airport safety measures are ‘security theatre’ (i.e. they make us feel safer but don’t actually make us safer), the overemphasized focus on deep cleaning/sanitizing surfaces has likely taken away from more effective measures to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, giving us 'prevention fatigue’ from measure that don’t even help much.

You Can Stop Cleaning Your Mail Now

People are power scrubbing their way to a false sense of security.

The Atlantic

Just want to emphasize this part because so many restaurants and bars are trumpeting how much they’re cleaning while still having indoor dining