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People actually did this?
Absolutely, yes. Back when it first started in early 2020, there were still a lot of unknowns. People were suddenly dying, there were no vaccines yet, a lot was unknown and every government and business was basically trying to invent protocols to stay safe.
How long could a virus survive on a particular surface or object? Most people didn’t know. So they panicked and pretty much did what felt most appropriate: disinfect the ever living fuck out of everything that might’ve been touched by someone, somewhere.
People were doing contactless package delivery. Folks were disinfecting cardboard packages so as not to catch the ‘rona. Of course, that was all a bit of an overreaction - but pretty understandable considering how scary that time was for a lot of people. That, at least, was something they could do.
The scenes from New York, which seemed like they were pulled out of an over the top science fiction horror, was enough to justify cleaning the bar of soap with more soap before using it.
Yep. When you saw headlines about mass graves and refrigerated trucks full of bodies in New York, it’s understandable that people got a bit scared. And the situation elsewhere was much, much worse…