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Jackalope

Jackalope

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Geezer II said:
Do you think we should keep extra cash on hand
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Some but not as a primary transaction method. Cash is the dirtiest and most germ-filled thing you can touch. If we think about a typical transaction, we give money to a clerk, a clerk that has touched thousands of items that other shoppers touched, and he handled cash from a great number of them also. He hands us back change from other customers with those same hands.

I personally use Samsung pay on my phone and it uses the proximity sensor on the reader. For many that's not an option though so my recommendation is to use a card. After touching the terminal and removing your card sanitize your hands and the card, especially if you have to hand that card to the cashier. I started sanitizing purchased items also. Setting an item on a counter that hundreds of customers and the clerk has stood over all day is a prime location for surface contamination. If just one infected person sneezes or coughs on that counter and there's the potential for anything placed on it to pick up the virus. You carry that item to your car, open the can or bottle, and bam you put it right to your mouth.
 
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Geezer II

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Jackalope said:
Some but not as a primary transaction method. Cash is the dirtiest and most germ-filled thing you can touch. If we think about a typical transaction, we give money to a clerk, a clerk that has touched thousands of items that other shoppers touched, and he handled cash from a great number of them also. He hands us back change from other customers with those same hands.

I personally use Samsung pay on my phone and it uses the proximity sensor on the reader. For many that's not an option though so my recommendation is to use a card. After touching the terminal and removing your card sanitize your hands and the card, especially if you have to hand that card to the cashier. I started sanitizing purchased items also. Setting an item on a counter that hundreds of customers and the clerk has stood over all day is a prime location for surface contamination. If just one infected person sneezes or coughs on that counter and there's the potential for anything placed on it to pick up the virus. You carry that item to your car, open the can or bottle, and bam you put it right to your mouth.
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Yes its pretty hard to avoid contamination in public places - if you put one drop of dye in 5 gallons of water it would dissipate through out the water and you would not see it - but all the water would contaminated to some degree of parts per million - that kinda how community contamination works - only takes one sneeze or contact and - Boom - - - do what ya can to protect yourself
 
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"J"

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Geezer II said:
Yes its pretty hard to avoid contamination in public places - if you put one drop of dye in 5 gallons of water it would dissipate through out the water and you would not see it - but all the water would contaminated to some degree of parts per million - that kinda how community contamination works - only takes one sneeze or contact and - Boom - - - do what ya can to protect yourself
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Keep your hands clean and away from your face....
Shave the facial hair and wash your face often...
 
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