Banks Directed to Sanitize Money

According to a news report the Central Bank is requiring those regulated by them, banks and pawnshops to sanitize money and to keep sanitized and unsanitzed money separate. The money you have today is unsanitized. Gloves are the only protection protecting you from Covid 19 from things you touch.

Wear them when you go out and replace them often.

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This is really still part of the 'anything you touch outside your home (or possibly inside your home if someone is a carrier)' is a bio-hazard.

People need to avoid thinking about specific items as they tend then to ignore the greater picture.

And even if you obtain sanitised money from a bank, the first time you use it you will receive non-sanitised money in return as change.

I think using gloves is also a distraction and can make people feel more secure than they are - as soon as you touch anything, they are potentially contaminated and so need to be washed. Best not to think about them and just keep sanitising your hands.

Covered face (mask and eye cover) + hand sanitising is the surest route for us to help prevent getting infected if we go outside our homes. Staying in is even better (or maybe equal).

 

None of these measures is perfect, but they are better than nothing. It merely changes the percentages. Society is generally playing a huge, complicated game of "Whack-a-Mole" that will continue for 18 months.

 

when checking out at lee plaza recently, i asked the cashier if their money was sanitized and she replied, ''yes.'' otherwise, what i've been doing is to have the cashiers/venders put my change into a small plastic carry bag and when i get home, i mist my hands with alcohol and lay the money out on a board and mist it with alcohol. do you think that helps?

 

how can their change be sanitized? they potentially give you back what the person before you used to pay, or do they have different places for cash coming in and cash used for change?

the other day a german virologist stated on tv that they went into households where several people were corona positive and checked surfaces like door knobs, toilets, tv remotes and even their cats. While they found traces of the virus everywhere (except the cats, they were all negative), they found that all these traces were "dead" and would not be able to cause an infection. I wouldn't worry too much about the cash or any other surfaces, unless an infected person really sneezed onto it minutes before.

heres the link (for the german speakers)

 

Firstly as @Jens K stated above, I am not sure the cash from any store is sanitised. As he says, are they giving out fresh change every time? Just do not believe what you are told as the person serving you doesn't often know, misunderstands you or just says what you want to hear.

As to the time the virus remains 'active' (I use that term as viruses outside the body are not 'alive' as we know life to be) on the surface of anything, there is much confused advice - in such circumstances (as famously with face masks) I ALWAYS go for the safest process in the assumption there is a danger. So, what you are doing is correct. You are avoiding the touching of the coins and notes - when you get them home you are spraying with alcohol (I assume you are spraying both sides). You could instead just leave them in the bag or in a container, as the virus will become inactive eventually (I have read from zero time in the @Jens K reference to 7 days or more in other articles).

I don't want to dispute what experts are saying but we have seen enough evidence so far of so many different opinions on everything that go for the VERY SAFEST.

 

Going out, she takes bills from my wallet, and coins from a table that have not been touched for a week or longer, so deemed "safe". Change received, deemed unsafe, she leaves in the shopping bag for some days. Plastic bags obtained shopping are emptied of contents and then put in the trash.

 

Evidently this virus stays viable depending on the surface and atmosphere, but in general it is pretty fragile. I the money is sprayed thoroughly with 70% alcohol, that evidently makes it harmless immediately. You could iron it, too, and boil the coins! Save on alcohol which is not easy to get.

 

i've started laying bills and coins in the noonday sun; doesn't take long before the coins are too hot to touch. you can ''bake'' coins and bills (paper money) in a lunch box with a clear lid.

 

Don't forget that the bag contents may have been handled by other persons and so carry a risk. Slight but it exists.