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This might be too obvious to be an idea, but,
There are antimicrobial polymers [link], there might be antiviral polymers, make money cards, purse and wallet exteriors, and phone surfaces out of them. I touch my phone many times per day, and pass money cards back and forth.
antimicrobial polymers at wikipedia
https://en.wikipedi...timicrobial_polymer
[beanangel, Mar 12 2020]
antiviral is copper @ vice.com
https://www.vice.co...-isnt-it-everywhere
[Mindey, Mar 18 2020]
[link]
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// money cards, purse and wallet exteriors, // |
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Doesn't that come into the category of money laundering ? |
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Would we not be breeding resistant bacteria? Or, are there substances so
bactericidic like alcohol, that don't create such risk? [+] |
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In this case, breeding resistant microbes might be a good
outcome. |
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No, bear with me here;
1. We don't currently rely on antimicrobial polymers to cure us
when we're ill.
2. All of evolution involves trade-offs.
Therefore
3. If we pressurise microbe populations into
developing features which protect them against our new killer
polymers, this may come at the expense of those features which
protect them against our immune systems and antibiotics. |
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NB: the reasoning above is a priori, and is entirely free of
any direct evidentiary basis. |
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Have you ever considered running for public office [pert] ? It's a shoo-in ... |
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Yes. But that's another story. |
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These days, some-one will complain no matter what you
do...
Imagine the protests:
"SAVE THE MICROBES!"
"MICROBES ARE PEOPLE TOO!"
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How soon before individual base-pairs start getting rights ? Ridiculous as that sounds, it's only .... oh, wait, it's already happened. |
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