Spraying Coins With Rubbing Alcohol In Light Of Covid19

Actually I would recommend all CRH to stop at least until this pandemic is over and done with . Yes I realize there are some diehards out there that won't be able to do that . To feed your addiction for a month or two spend a little of that Stimulus money from the Government and buy some coins on E-bay or online dealers . Of cause after all your bills are paid .

As others have posted, they have actually done some research into how viable this particular virus is after being sprayed onto various surfaces. They're artificial tests, but it's the best we've got right now. The virus survived for the shortest time on copper, just 4 hours. I suspect the virus would last even less time on silver, with it's famed sterilization properties. Of course, the time between a cashier giving you a coin and you picking up the coin is going to be a lot shorter than 4 hours, which is why the whole planet is hastily going cashless right now. But collectable coins that have been mailed to you should be perfectly safe, as they will be passing through the mail/courier system for a lot longer than 4 hours.

The packaging, on the other hand, is a different story. The virus can last for several days on paper or cardboard packaging. Here in Australia we've had cases of airport baggage handlers coming down with the virus, so it's easily possible to catch it second-hand from a parcel, especially a parcel sent express. Just leaving it alone for a few days should do the trick. Letting it sit in the sun should hasten the sterilization process; UV light is bad for viruses. A UV-C lamp would be even better - it's what the banks are using to sterilize their banknotes.

Makes one think that there is now a plastic virus around.

That seems odd for sure, and I agree- everyone will be infected to an extent. Only difference between this and the flu is that the flu has a vaccine. Washing coins isn't really ever a good idea, you can damage the value of anything you find. But I can imagine the amount of germs exchanged through money and CRH is boundless.

I keep hearing that and I have to wonder if it is true. During a typical flu season in four month it spreads around the world and there are hundreds of millions of cases. With this virus in four months it has spread around the world and we haven't broken a million cases yet. I'm sure the crack downs on gatherings and social distancing has helped to keep the number down, but by hundreds of millions of cases? and for a disease that is supposed to have a much higher transmission rate? Doesn't seem right.

There is also no built in immunity to Covid 19. So while a percentage of the population has some immunity to the Flu, there doesn't seem to be any for Covid. The people that have it can get a mild case, and the vast majority do, but not having immunity will cause it to spread much faster. Eventually herd immunity will develop which will result in much less spread.

From all the reading I did, a vast majority of the population getting Covid 19 is expected and is good, what the lock downs and quarantines are trying to do is spread out that curve so hospitals can handle the people that get it bad. In Germany the death rate has been really low as they have the ICU space to currently keep ahead of the curve. NJ and NY are hitting peak hospital usage now, hence why those states are being aggressive in the measures to have people practice social distance. In the end the vast majority of us will get Covid 19. Otherwise flare up will keep occurring (like the reemergence in China and Hong Kong)