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<p>[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 281459, member: 4552"]Really a mistake in statistics. Recent studies have proven about the worst place to contact germs and viruses is on the handle of a shopping cart. Washroom doornobs are worse than the toilet seats. Leaning on the place where you unload your groceries at a grocery stores conveyor is also a nasty place. Ever see those little kids wiping thier nose and then slidding their hands on that counter? Ever see kids drolling, picking noses and then handling the shopping cart's handles. Your in a line at the bank and hold the little rails they put up to direct you. So have thousands of others. Many of these are none matallic and hold germs and viruses much longer than any coin will ever hold. </p><p>Now the biggies. Shaking hands. Petting animals. Kissing. </p><p>If you've ever had Chemotherapy, I've had it 2 times, your system is really run down and so is your immune system. The booklets you get and the lectures you get tell you "DO NOT SHAKE HANDS, DO NOT PET ANIMALS, DO NOT KISS ANYONE". None, I mean NONE, of these say don't handle coins. </p><p> As already fairly well stated, matallic objects are not great carriers of germs and viruses. </p><p>Further, many Copper coins contain slight sulfates which is a deadly poison to many germs, viruses and all vegatation. Note how many vegatation poinsons contain Copper Sulfate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 281459, member: 4552"]Really a mistake in statistics. Recent studies have proven about the worst place to contact germs and viruses is on the handle of a shopping cart. Washroom doornobs are worse than the toilet seats. Leaning on the place where you unload your groceries at a grocery stores conveyor is also a nasty place. Ever see those little kids wiping thier nose and then slidding their hands on that counter? Ever see kids drolling, picking noses and then handling the shopping cart's handles. Your in a line at the bank and hold the little rails they put up to direct you. So have thousands of others. Many of these are none matallic and hold germs and viruses much longer than any coin will ever hold. Now the biggies. Shaking hands. Petting animals. Kissing. If you've ever had Chemotherapy, I've had it 2 times, your system is really run down and so is your immune system. The booklets you get and the lectures you get tell you "DO NOT SHAKE HANDS, DO NOT PET ANIMALS, DO NOT KISS ANYONE". None, I mean NONE, of these say don't handle coins. As already fairly well stated, matallic objects are not great carriers of germs and viruses. Further, many Copper coins contain slight sulfates which is a deadly poison to many germs, viruses and all vegatation. Note how many vegatation poinsons contain Copper Sulfate.[/QUOTE]
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