The COVID-19 pandemic

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Since Covid-19 is technically the same as a cold virus, good hygiene, including washing your hands, will reduce risk of transmission.

https://www.who.int/southeastasia/news/d...0us%20safe.

I think it's the least important thing to emphasize, and there haven't been any documented fomite transmissions. Messages are best when they emphasize the most important thing, and hygiene theatre has distracted a lot of people from doing the things that they need to do to actually reduce risk. "Oh I'm safe I have plexiglass and I clean surfaces constantly!" Nope.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...er/614599/

“Surface transmission of COVID-19 is not justified at all by the science,” Emanuel Goldman, a microbiology professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, told me.

(Your statement isn't technically true either, it's a coronovirus vs a rhinovirus).