Flushing Toilets Create Long-Lasting Clouds of Virus-Containing Particles
Coronavirus could be transmitted through a long-lasting cloud of virus-containing aerosol droplets ejected from a flushing toilet.
Researchers used a computer simulation to show how a flushing toilet can create a cloud of virus-containing aerosol droplets that is large and widespread and lasts long enough that the droplets could be breathed in by others.
With recent studies showing the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can survive in the human digestive tract and show up in feces of the infected, this raises the possibility the disease could be transmitted with the use of toilets.
Toilet flushing creates a great deal of turbulence, and qualitative evidence suggests this can spread both bacteria and viruses. The public, however, remains largely unaware of this infection pathway, since few quantitative studies have been carried out to investigate this possible mechanism.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 17, 2020 12:42 AM
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Oh, just as sea spray at the beach spreads it.
What are we supposed to do with this information? Refrain from flushing? Jesus Christ.
This is just fueling the paranoia of *those* people.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 16, 2020 7:43 PM
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People are saying it spreads through ravenous staring at crotches and asses.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 16, 2020 7:47 PM
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this and fears of lack of handwashing was one reason that the homeless here were all yanked out of shelters and put in hotels.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 16, 2020 7:50 PM
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We need to go back to using outhouses.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 16, 2020 7:51 PM
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[quote] What are we supposed to do with this information? Refrain from flushing? Jesus Christ.
That’s the only option your brain can come up with?
This doesn’t matter in your home, as you’ve already been exposed to anything you’re pooping out.
But it’s a good reason to avoid public bathrooms.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 16, 2020 8:55 PM
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If everyone was as stylish as us Dataloungers, it would be no problem -- they could just let their caftan tent the bowl when sitting down, and stay seated after the flush for a minute, the same way a house is tented before fumigation.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 16, 2020 9:19 PM
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Are caftans the new masks?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 16, 2020 9:19 PM
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The article refers to the poo cloud as "toilet plume."
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 16, 2020 9:20 PM
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A favorite landing spot for germs? Toothbrushes.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 16, 2020 10:01 PM
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This is why I only poop into a Ziploc bag.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 16, 2020 10:06 PM
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I wonder if those newer, eco-friendly suction toilets are more hygienic?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 16, 2020 10:25 PM
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I think some form of non flushing toilet is really the only answer, and try selling that to Americans. Composting toilets that look the same as standard toilets? All sparkly pretty on the outside and....however they work on the inside? That won't be any kind of undertaking AT ALL. From the smallest burger joint to the Met, every single terlit would have to be replaced. Fuck it. I'll take my chances with "The Plume".
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 16, 2020 10:30 PM
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OP Just put the fucking lid down when you flush.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 16, 2020 10:31 PM
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Listen. If Olivia deHavillabd can make it to 104, I think the rest of us are more than safe from the alleged dangers of "The Toilet Plume".
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 16, 2020 10:44 PM
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Can you imagine the toxic plume after Trump takes a dump?
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 16, 2020 10:48 PM
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This is getting crazy now. We aren't allowed to breath, fuck or flush.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 16, 2020 11:09 PM
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So all those homeless in SF were actually well ahead of the curve!
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 16, 2020 11:49 PM
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[quote] I think some form of non flushing toilet is really the only answer, and try selling that to Americans.
I lived in an Asian country and had friends with non-flushing toilets (a hole in the ground). It was disgusting. Literally everyone in the world prefers flushing toilets. This is not about American selfishness. The answer is simple-- and it was in the article. The answer is to put down the lid before you flush. It's not rocket science.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 17, 2020 12:13 AM
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Just go in a corner of the pantry and your friends will take care of it.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 17, 2020 12:42 AM
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