Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: “ Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a thousand battles without disaster. " Enemy #1 these days is COVID-19. While it is very contagious, we know quite a bit about COVID-19 and this can help us determine zero waste ways to defeat it in the thousands of battles we face over the coming months and possibly years. What we know about our enemy : Soap and water kill it in ~20 seconds and this works better than hand sanitizers. Sitting on porous surfaces for 1 day at room temperature kills it. Sitting on plastic or stainless steel for 3 days at room temperature kills it. It can last in the air for a few hours but then it dies. Dilution works against COVID-19 as the number of viruses (“troops”) landing on you matters. That is why being outside is so safe if we maintain distance - our huge atmosphere blows it away and dilutes it so it dies off before it can land on anyone else. Indoors near others is much more dangerous. Higher tem
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