Restaurants and gyms saying "come in! we've got soap!" during a mostly airborne plague is like a beach town stalked by sharks saying "we fortified the boardwalk!" Great, now people can STURDILY walk into the ocean and be separated from their limbs.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hygiene-theater/614599/ …
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Unventilated indoor establishments that should be shut down and bailed out during the outbreak aren't magically safe just because they bought an electrostatic disinfectant spray.
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I just filed a piece that had a lot of overlap with this, but not as main point. I will soon go through it and take out all the hygiene theater stuff! I even had similar phrasing. 

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