Adept Reacts to How To See Germs Spread (Coronavirus) | Mark Rober

see if we can somehow see the

germs

around us, everyone would be a lot more careful and aren't we this guy who scammed everyone with the sick box much less, unfortunately, that's still not possible so I did the next best option : run. In a day long experiment in this third grade classroom, I found this powder called Glo germ, and just like real

germs

, when it's on your hands you can't see it, but unlike real germs, you can you turn on a black light, it becomes visible but it transfers. to things you've touched, so it provides a really good way to visualize exactly how germs

spread

, so before the kids arrived as a control, I went around and noticed any pre-existing spots in the room that glowed under the black light and then he left.

At that time, the children, of course, had no idea what we were doing and that the teacher had been secretly infected with the glowing dust, so she randomly shook the hands of three children, but did not touch any of them. the others, so with that they just moved on. On his normal day during recess, I picked a student at random and he agreed to let me put some of the powder on his hands too and then two hours later at lunchtime I checked the results. Remember that everything you see here began with only the master and one. student who has some of that dust on his hands and since my flashlight can only illuminate one spot at a time, I use Photoshop to better visualize our observations of where the germs were, even on the other children, and they were actually quite diligent in handwashing. hands this was the desk of the kid who was infected and what's crazy is that germs can live on a hard surface like this for up to nine days and so you can see how important it is to disinfect things that a sick person touches regularly, For example.

This was the teacher's phone in the experiment, even if you wash your hands very frequently, if you immediately take out your phone, a lot of those germs return to your hands. You think about when was the last time you cleaned your phone. My friend Joanne at the Wall Street Journal recently showed that you can wipe your phone with an antibacterial wipe every day for at least a year and it doesn't affect the oleophobic layer at all, and hopefully this will give you a better mental model of why. It's really like that. important to wash your hands or use hand sanitizer after being in places like this or this or this or this cleaning common contact amenities is important because even if a virus is transmitted by airborne transmission, those tiny droplets don't stay in the air for a long time.

They land on surfaces waiting to be touched by our hands, which raises an important point: the ultimate defense against catching a virus is to simply not touch your face, your eyes, just not touch your face, your mouths are like the only weak point from the Death Star when it comes to viruses, but as you can see here, not touching your face is easier said than done and before you think, yeah, well that's just kids to you, that's what they look like the teachers at the end of the day and she said. She tried really hard to remember not to touch her face.

I found this result fascinating, so I put the powder on my hands for a few hours. It's okay though she wants to touch my face and then this is what I saw. Okay, sorry, but I like it. When they do these experiments on themselves, I always imagine them going and grabbing it before they grab the camera and saying, "Oh my God, guys, look how many times I touched my face today." Images Wow, there you have it, on average we touch our face 16 times an hour, which is why washing our hands is so important. It is impossible to contract a virus directly through your hands.

It's as useless as shooting at the outer surface of the Death Star. The problem is that we use. our hands to help the virus by constantly carrying it to our figurative deaths go through the exhaust ports because of this, I first performed another experiment after lunch. I asked them to put some lotion on their hands that you also put on under a black light, but then I told them. I made a mistake and used the wrong lotion. Well, you guys just wash, go wash your hands real quick. I wash well, yes, do the right thing. I fooled them again because what I really wanted to do is test how good they are. to wash your hands, so guess what I'm going to do now.

He's wearing a ninja shirt, but before I show you how effective they actually were at washing your hands, okay, we know about viruses that are super small but also the most abundant biological entity. In fact, there are over 10 million viruses on the planet and it's really great for the planet's ecosystem and only an incredibly small percentage affects humans and they're really simple. Viruses are basically a shell with some DNA inside and they just want to

spread

and replicate, that's their only goal but they are so psyche but they need a host to do it so they reproduce by infecting their host cells and then factories They simply make more exact copies of the virus when you get sick and then cough, sneeze, or wipe. your nose and then it touches a surface, you are putting copies of this virus to find other hosts and just repeat the process and this is what children's hands look like after washing their hands, look at the back, let me see, everyone We have a regular way of washing our hands, so once again I tried it myself using the typical quick way.

I do it in my muscle memory. That's better than nothing, but you could see the difference compared to when I was deliberate and it took me 20 seconds, so it helps to do things like watch the Happy Birthday song twice or you can do what I do and follow the example of Brandon Flowers and then for a final experiment, I wanted to show how silly the handshake is, but it's actually the first kid with the dust and then he has them do a chain of handshakes along the lines of that lesson here it is the sound of dancing like that in his hands, so I put it in the first theory of enlightenment, there they all stay, they have traces of the original person up to eight handshakes later, so if you ever meet me in life real, please don't be offended and a selfie to conclude, what does all this mean regarding the Cova 19 corona virus?

You should care to take this seriously, but regardless of what you see in the coming weeks, there will be There is absolutely no need to panic, as I'm sure you've heard a lot by now: our goal is to flatten the curve so that reported cases remain just below the capacity of the health system. Distancing is the best knob we can turn to affect that. The reason is that after watching this video, especially for those who have been doubting the science and feeling that this is an extreme reaction to take here, I am a practical optimist. Bob's side is that while this virus is bad, it could be much worse and this. gives us the opportunity as a global community to implement some systems and methods to handle something potentially easy: being on the rivers is actually what will lead to changing our social norms, like replacing handshakes with fist bumps or when people actually think it's okay to socialize and go to work around the world, the normal flu kills between a quarter and half a million people a year because a large portion of people don't practice good germ hygiene, so if this experience makes people more socially aware of the proper precautions to take when they get sick, that will save countless people who have been No, the mouth plug virus is old news.

I'm not wrong, this will be harder for some more than others, but history has shown that humans are quite resilient, these kinds of things can bring out the worst in us, but they can also bring out the best parts. healthiest of us, like these Italians who practice their social distancing with an impromptu concert on the balcony. How we feel about the situation depends largely on which party we choose, which is just a coincidence that they don't know each other: the heroes of our healthcare system or the school lunch ladies who still offer free lunches to students. children who depend on them or the scientists around the world who work tirelessly seven days a week to create better testing methods on a vaccine, we will have a bumpy ride, but the economy will eventually recover as it always does and we will be Better as a global community to have gone through this again, take this seriously, but there is absolutely no need to panic.

We understood this totally well. It just so happened that he was filming at his school, the director came over the public address system to make an announcement in that category, do you see opportunities?