OPINION:
When the coronavirus was first detected, news reports said that it could survive on metal for up to fours hours. Knowing this, a thought came to mind about coins given as change when we shop. Who’s to say that this isn’t part of the reason that the pandemic is spreading like wildfire?
If someone who has the virus sneezes, covering their face with their hand, just before or while shopping and then grabs some change to pay for an item, wouldn’t the change be contaminated? And if you or I were next in line and the person at the cash register picked up the contaminated change and handed it to us, wouldn’t we catch the virus?
If we are all wearing masks and keeping a distance then there is a chink in the armor of our reasoning about where the contamination is coming from. I’ve watched commercials selling UV lights that kill viruses and bacteria and have been said to kill the coronavirus, too. If this is true, why haven’t these devices been put in business, churches, state and municipal buildings and any other places people frequent? At the very least, cash registers, notorious hothouses of germs and bacteria, should be a starting point.
The fact that people are dying left and right should be enough for the powers that be to at least investigate my contention that we are missing a possible source of contamination.
GREGORY J. TOPLIFF
Warrenville, S.C.
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