TEN Years of Hell–Halfway, Huge Heavenly Help

2. Money and computers are filthy – they carry
most germs. “Filthy leukah”. “Filthy rich
versus filthy poor”?
In the next two sections (2) and (3) I give my two
principal, both devastating objections to the worlds of
‘cash’ and ‘the computer-money complex’. The first,
in this section, will probably strike you as common
sense, but nevertheless something you will almost
certainly never have thought of – because society
makes money so sacred a Sacred Cow – that is
actually very shocking. Consider: -
• Whenever you give and take money in a shop,
those notes and coins will have been handled by
dozens and hundreds of people in their time,
many with infectious diseases. The dirt on those
notes and coins, built up increasingly with age,
carries toxic, infectious, microbes, bacteria,
viruses and other microscopic germs...
• Money is filthy. Your average wallet, purse,
or pocket of money is absolutely riddled
with disease and germs.
• Especially these days, with ‘chip and PIN’
keyboards replacing signatures, the same is only
slightly less true of debit and credit cards – 20
people an hour touch the same keyboard to enter
their PIN, passing on infectious germs and so
diseases.
• So what about the cash till operators? They
typically do a two hour shift, handling not only
the toxic infected money – but all of the goods
being sold... Then their shift changes because
operating a cash till is only allowed for a certain
amount of time because it is intensive i.e. very
stressful. Another cash till operator uses the
very same cash till keyboard – spreading even
more germs and disease.
• The same is true of computer keyboards
worldwide, for the vast majority of these are
shared between company employees and
members of families and their friends at home.
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