On Catching the Covid Virus from Surfaces.

 Every time I go to Mass, Sunday and morning Mass on Tuesday and Thursday I have to take a yellow sticker and place it on the bench where I sit so that cleaners can come and sterilise the place where I was sitting.    It is a mass exercise after church with cleaners in place ready to do the work.   I am really thankful for them for doing the job.   However this work was done in the supposition that the Covid Virus had to be removed from surfaces to stop the infection spreading, and unless the Churches agreed they would not be allowed to open.  I remember the World Health Organisation some time last year tellling us that the covid only remained on a surface for 15 minutes,  but I cannot remember any discussion on TV or radio or the press, telling us anything about Covid on surfaces but without information I could not ask questions, and the obligation was just imposed.  

Recently however I heard someone on TV saying that it had been discovered that the chance of catching infection from surfaces was 1 in 10,000.    I was staggered by this and decided to do some research.     What I found was that a Professor Goldman, who was a microbiologist in New Jersey had questioned the infection rate from surfaces and had put the matter to the test.    He found that there was little danger since the Covid virus was an airborne virus which did not use surfaces.   He submitted his findings to an American respected publication The Lancet Infectious Diseases, he had no opposition, so he carried on with his work not using glove.    His work of course covers the opposite idea that the Covid infects from surfaces, for there is no study to show this. 

Yet a large cleaning operation carries on in theatres, clubs, churches, and restaurants,    I suppose this was just another plan to keep the public in fear.       

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