How to clean your smartphone in times of covid 19
Studies have shown everything from staph to e. Coli can thrive on your smartphone’s glass screen. COVID-19, meanwhile, can survive on surfaces for anywhere from a few hours to over a week, depending on conditions.
If you’re in the mood to kill those germs, some alcohol can’t hurt. At least, it can’t hurt now, as companies like Apple have recently changed their position on using alcohol-based wipes and similar disinfecting products on their devices.
In Apple’s case, it still recommends using a slightly damp lint-free cloth to wipe your device clean. But it has changed its previous advice to avoid disinfectants — instead of warning against harsh chemicals, claiming the products may strip the oil-repellent “oleophobic” coating on your phone, Apple now says those problematic wipes are in the clear.
“Using a 70% isopropyl alcohol wipe, you may gently wipe the exterior surfaces of your iPhone,” Apple says on its updated support page. “Don’t use bleach. Avoid getting moisture in any openings, and don’t submerge your iPhone in any cleaning agents.”
Apple says you can use the same disinfectant products on the “hard, nonporous surfaces” of your Apple device, though you shouldn’t use them on anything made of fabric or leather. Other chemicals, like chlorine and bleach, are too harsh and could damage your screen. The recommendation to avoid other cleaning products, like Purell or compressed air, still applies. (All this advice applies more or less equally to gadgets from other companies, too.)
Could cleaning products still damage your phone, even with approval from the manufacturer? Yes, but only if you’re obsessively scrubbing your screen with them — so remember to chill out with all that wiping.
Wash your hands, not your smartphone
Experts say that keeping your phone clean won’t matter much if you’re not practicing good hygiene in other ways. So remember to wash your hands regularly, don’t touch your face, and so on.
“For sure, if you’re worried about your phone, you can sanitize your phone,” says Dr. Donald Schaffner, professor at Rutgers University’s Department of Food Science and co-host of Risky or Not, a podcast about “everyday risks from germs.” “But more importantly, stay away from sick people, and wash and sanitize your hands. Those are probably going to do a lot more to reduce your risk than sanitizing your phone.”
Schaffner also says the chance of catching a virus like COVID-19 from your phone is minimal compared to the risk of being near someone who is already infected with the disease. But it can’t hurt to keep your phone clean, he says. “If you’ve got a hundred [bacteria] on your finger and you stuck your finger in a moist area like your nose, well now you’ve got a dry surface transferring to a wet surface,” says Schaffner. “And you’re probably going to be pretty efficient at transferring those hundred organisms you’ve got on your finger into your nose.” more
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I have lost everything because of you.
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Based on the notion that ‘germs cause diseases, the entire treatment, research and remedial actions are directed towards hunting and eliminating the germs and carrier insects. But in light of the scientific theories available for knowing “What is life and its (environmental) requirements”, this is really a superstition. In fact, after the death of Louis Pasteur, the founder of disease germs theory, this concept was slowly losing importance, but in 1930’s, this theory got revitalized owing to commercial interests. During his last days, Pasteur himself confirmed: "Germs are nothing, the soil in which they are matters"... Let it be clear in our minds, as Swami Vivekananda said: “till the body permits the germs to enter the body; till the vitality is destroyed to the extent suitable for germs to enter, grow & multiply, not a single germ can cause disease in the body”.
If Germs cause of diseases, logically hospitals are the most dangerous places in this world, because all types of most virulent disease germs are present there and get transmitted to others through hospital equipments like Stethoscope, hands of physicians & staff, air, water, cloths, etc. But who bothers, and why to bother, when it is in the presence of Doctors?
According to various scholars and experts, even in this (medically) superstitious world, where horrified people as also doctors & other practitioners are trying to hunt and eliminate the ‘AIDS germs’ and ‘other germs’ (!!!) and also drug & poison the patients/ health-seekers, those who wish to live a calm & quiet, peaceful healthy life, can earnestly and sincerely try for getting the suitable environment conditions, because that is the road to health; and not to the hospital. One may get ‘health education’ from right source, and not from those who are themselves frightened (or pretending to be frightened) about microbes, germs, insects & also serious aftermaths of all sorts problems arising out disease conditions. Impartially providing such an environmental condition and imparting such information and education to the subjects, without any bias to any specific medical stream, is the prime responsibility of the rulers and agencies like W.H.O. And citizens have every right to learn and adopt such a system, which enables a person to become his/her own doctor, at least for implementing Sustainable Total Quality Health Management in one’s own life.
This post is purported for general awareness & education of the peoples in general, but I would not touch upon the present pandemic from its commercial, business related and political scopes, etc. more