[Magdalen] Cleaning and Disinfecting Churches

[Ann Markle]

My daddy didn't serve in WWII  either.  Maybe it was  because he had 3
little boys under 4 years of age when we entered the war; I suspect it was
because his architectural specialty was industrial design, and he was
deemed essential to design industrial capacity for the war effort. He
worked for a chemical company, so industrial solvents and chemicals, or
perhaps even biological weapons?  I suspect  the chemicals eventually
destroyed  his kidneys; he eventually died from kidney disease.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu


On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:40 PM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>