[Magdalen] Cleaning and Disinfecting Churches

[ME Michaud]

It's interesting that you mention TB because we've been talking about how
closely the Covid precautions resemble the TB precautions. The gf and I
both grew up with them (her father, the only man I knew of his generation
who didn't serve in WW2, had TB; my mother's aunt died of TB; my father's
aunt was thrown out of her convent when she developed TB).

My sense is that viruses can't live long without a human host, but bacteria
can. Anyway, that was what I was taught way back when. Maybe they don't
teach that today.
-M


On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, Louise Laughton <llaug2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ages ago, when every TB sanatorium in Northern NYS closed because
> antibiotics that cured the disease had made them obsolete, the question of
> books arose. Many of the TB sanatoria had excellent libraries that the
> small North Country community libraries could certainly use. Tests revealed
> that germs, including TB, didn’t survive on paper. I have no idea what the
> situation is when it’s a virus, not a bacterium, but germs really don’t
> survive on paper. That’s why, in a pinch, you can have clean “kitchen
> table” surgery if you cover the table with newspapers. (This, of course,
> assumes that there’s a stack of newspapers handy. Your iPad won’t work for
> this.) Anyhow, I wouldn’t worry about BCPs and hymnals, et al. The north
> Country libraries got lots of good books and no TB among the people who
> checked them out.