Quote from: stompix on February 11, 2020, 10:26:42 AM

Do you people actually think before writing things like this?

Ok, you pay with bitcoins, there will be no hand contact between you and the merchant, you won't be touching paper that might be infected by the merchant's hand but....

You will still touch the f%^^%%% merchandise you buy, the one the merchant and probably other customers have already touched maybe a hundred times!!!!!!!!!
It is like wearing a condom and then .... you know.....!
You won't be touching some money that might or might not be infected but you're still going to eat the bread in which that merchant sneezed a hundred times.

No wonder diseases spread like wildfire!

Quote from: Kakmakr on February 11, 2020, 08:05:54 AM

Quote from: davis196 on February 11, 2020, 07:23:39 AM

I don't really think that the coronavirus is transmitted via touching paper money,coins or anything else.
It's transmitted via air and moisture.Even if its was transmitted via touching paper money,you can see that people all over China are using gloves now.

That is where you are wrong my friend. Wink

The world health officials know that the respiratory disease is capable of spreading through human-to-human contact, droplets carried through sneezing and coughing, and germs left on inanimate objects. Source : https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/researchers-say-the-coronavirus-may-be-more-contagious-than-current-data-shows.html

Viruses don't do well on paper like objects.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6282993

Influenza viruses die pretty fast in tissues and are almost impossible to transmit over a 1 hour period.
Don't confuse viruses with bacterias.

Yes, I read every post I make and I see 1000's of people dying of this virus and I want to see that Bitcoin can be used to make a difference.

The thing with fiat cash is this, MANY people handle that cash on a daily basis and the coins and notes are normally placed in the same basket, where it spreads the contamination to the other cash that are placed in that same basket. So the probability for for contamination is higher, because the contaminated cash touch other coins and note that are not contaminated. The virus are also spread through fecal matter and tests have shown that fiat cash are very dirty and a lot of it has shown traces of fecal matter.

The food merchants normally have to adhere to proper food hygiene and when a crisis like this happen, they would probably be more aware of the dangers of contamination, so they will increase measures to reduce the risk. Washing food containers & utensils in Bleach to kill the virus. (The Health inspectors will also be more vigilant, since this virus originated in live food markets.)

Also, people do not just buy physical items, they can buy virtual goods and air time, where they do not have to touch anything. If they used cash to buy this, they could have been infected.

If you took the time to read the articles I added in my previous post, you would have noticed that test were done to determine that the virus survived up to 9 hours on physical surfaces, like metal, plastic etc..

Let's look for a better solution and not criticize other people for thinking out of the box. Wink