“Hygiene Theater”

The Washington Post really goofed this time. It published an op-ed by three professors—one of them, absurdly enough, is the “director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.” Love these oh-so-contrived specialties!–that disputes a foundation of COVIDCon: the obsessive sanitizing of surfaces.

The trio blows this nonsense out of the water with its very first sentence:

We don’t have a single documented case of covid-19 transmission from surfaces. Not one.

So why, then, are we spending a small fortune to deep clean our offices, schools, subways and buses?

Indeed.

Thanks to Vinnie Terranova for alerting me to the WaPo’s bizarre lapse. I’m forwarding this article to the car-rental company: maybe they’ll lower their rates, given the fortune they’ll save on bleach.

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