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A lot of germs spread by direct contact. Door handles are
especially bad. Viruses can live for hours on the surface
of
a door knob, and spread to the next person who touches
it,
who in turn touches more door knobs, etc.
The idea is to simply designate one side of the handle
for
one half
of the population, the other side for the other
half. A half-baked idea... see what I did there.
How you divide the population could be done in various
ways, but it needs to be really simple so the majority of
users understand it instantly.
Imagine the handle on a large glass door to a business
building. The top half is blue and says 'Men', the bottom
half is pink and says 'Women' (or to be more p.c., it has
images of the male/female bathroom avatars).
It could also be done by birthday. WHATS YOUR
BIRTHDAY?
Even->Touch here. Odd->Touch here.
These indicators would work best if adopted all over the
place, of course.
Simply dividing the population that a particular germ
could
spread by direct contact in two could have a huge impact
on how quickly it is able to spread.
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Welcome to the bakery, [InfinitiesLoop]. |
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//These indicators would work best if adopted all over the place, of course.// [marked-for-tagline] |
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This idea is at least as good as purdah, apartheid and full-body condoms. |
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It might form the basis of a good film about alienation. |
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Thinking about it, it might also form the basis of a good comedy. I mean, with purdah and apartheid, it's usually easy to spot which segregated group an individual belongs to but, with this system, it's much harder. |
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You could, for example, do a version of Goldoni's "servant of two masters", where each of the masters belonged to a different ... segregation category, and the servant pretends to belong to each in turn. Hilarity ensues around jobs, rented accommodation and, of course, sex. |
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Taken to the extreme: a door with many knobs, each
with a different description, much like one of those
automatic telephone systems that say "Press 1 for A,
2 for B...". |
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Then standback and look at the ensuing hilarity as
queues of people form, trying to decide which
category they fall into before using handle 9: "Other",
anyway. |
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there are a few ways to take this idea to the limit: |
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1. divide every member of the population in two |
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2. let's all become otaku and/or never leave the halfbakery |
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The problem is, rumours would soon start circulating
that the Blues have got a nasty cold going roung, so
everyone would use the Pink handles... |
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//nasty cold going roung // Loogs Libe ynou Gaught it
alweaby.... |
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//The problem is, rumours would soon start circulating that the Blues have got a nasty cold going roung.. |
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I can avoid getting the cold by not using the left mouse button? <sneezes> |
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Simply use clingfilm(Saran wrap?) to individually package each individual. |
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