[HN Gopher] Real-Time Monitoring of Aerosols Generated from Toil...
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       Real-Time Monitoring of Aerosols Generated from Toilet Flushing
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2023-07-28 20:38 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | nickthegreek wrote:
       | I find very few people outside my home who religiously put down
       | toilet seats prior to flushing. I can't even think about it too
       | much without being unsettled. I can see that it obviously isn't
       | that dangerous given our daily lives, but it is one of my hang
       | ups.
        
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       | amluto wrote:
       | Flushometer toilets seem to be the worst, which means there is
       | room for improvement. I wonder if codes could be updated to
       | restrict aerosol production.
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       | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4666014/
        
       | throw0101a wrote:
       | If anyone wants a visual example of what happens, do a search for
       | "toilet green laser":
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       | * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDIIhzc-FWg
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       | * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTojTHjUckA
        
       | sxates wrote:
       | Do we have any data about people actually becoming sick because
       | of toilet flushing aerosols? Everyone enters bathrooms and
       | flushes multiple times per day, but is not constantly sick. So is
       | this actually a problem or just "gross if you think about it"?
        
         | cj wrote:
         | I'm guessing the latter.
         | 
         | My gut reaction to this was "why bother." But even if a
         | pathogen isn't spread via toilet water aerosol today, it
         | doesn't mean a new pathogen can't emerge that could use this
         | transmission vector in the future.
         | 
         | That said, a virus that spreads in this manner should be
         | containable by having some kind of sterilization agent in the
         | toilet water (already commercially available products you can
         | use that adds bleach (or similar) to the water. Typically a
         | slowly dissolving brick of chemical added to the back of your
         | toilet
        
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