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_refugee_  ·  1644 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Are you easing back in to less distant socializing?

i hope you're not serious

cholera is transmitted through fecal matter and no one gets cholera by using a public toilet. public toilets have been designed to avoid spreading fecal-bourne illnesses.

increasingly, research is pointing to the idea that it's very difficult to catch COVID 19 through surface contamination (presumably whether fecal-bourne or not)

from the CDC

    The virus that causes COVID-19 has been found in the feces of some patients diagnosed with COVID-19. However, it is unclear whether the virus found in feces may be capable of causing COVID-19. There has not been any confirmed report of the virus spreading from feces to a person. Scientists also do not know how much risk there is that the virus could be spread from the feces of an infected person to another person. However, they think this risk is low based on data from previous outbreaks of diseases caused by related coronaviruses, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).

see also this fun article from npr points #6 and #7