https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/09/low-risk-of-catching-covid-in-public-toilets-study-finds

Is it time to get rid of the knee-jerk rules that reduced available facilities in the workplace and beyond?

A drive along the motorway showed the service station operators felt no need to close off alternate cubicles.

Speaking as a former working virologist I could have told you this 18 months ago. Viruses are very specific in their infection routes. It was established at the beginning of the outbreak that the SARS-CoV-2 route was via the cells in the lining of the respiratory system.  The method of infection was breathing in virus containing droplets from the air. In theory it was possible to transfer droplets from surfaces onto your fingers and then to poke your fingers up your nose; possible but unlikely. People did have virus in their faces but that was because most people swallow the surplus mucus  from the back of their throat and so various respiratory viruses turn up in people’s faeces. That does not mean that they grow in the gastric tract; they just pass through.

This is old news.  I can believe that some people would have tried to close down public toilets just as some people think you should spray everything with disinfectants and that the only solution to the pandemic is to inject yourself with bleach.  There has been a lot of stupid pointless suggestions and proposals made during the past 18 months. Fortunately we have gotten through this and we may be on course to managing this disease( we will never eliminate it)  

Originally Posted by: Gerry Knowles

I have for quite a long time felt that a number of organisations and people have over thought their control measures and put in place unnecessary restrictions, which may have had a detrimental effect on the health and well being of the general population. 

After all a hundred years ago we went through the Spanish Flu pandemic, at that time we did not have a vaccination (and still don't) and the visus is still out there somewhere.  The population just got through it and got on with life, perhaps that would have been a better solution this time around.  Yes there was a massive loss of life but the population may have been hardened to as they had just seen massive loss of life in the first world war.  

Have we over reacted and perhaps made the overall effect of the pandemic worse, we don't know and will probably never know!!

Those that have already lost loved and treasured family members before their time would strongly disagree that it would have been appropriate to allow many more to die.

Edited by user 09 September 2021 15:43:34(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified