How soap kills viruses | The Straits Times

Learn why washing your hands with soap can prevent the spread of viruses.
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[@ceratedsign4825]

That beat was hard tho

[@cgasucks]

1920. There will be flying cars in 100 years 2020 How to wash your hands

[@red2775]

I never washed my hands properly until recently...

[@NazriB]

Lies again? SO Apex Predator

[@Ben-fy2bh]

Can anyone answer: is it safe to assume that this works the same for liquid soaps & shower gels, as well as detergents in washing machines?

[@red2775]

Yes it does

[@SuccessforLifester]

In a video I watched about whether our vegetables are safe, they recommended to soak the vegetables. I am not sure of that recommendation. Not sure would pesticides come out or do we need to get those vegetable wash solution.

[@lucretius8050]

cook your vegetables and skip salads

[@SuccessforLifester]

@@lucretius8050 It is the washing part. Cooking doesn't kill pesticides. Though maybe the pesticides may flow into the sauce

[@VTV102]

Is this the same with all viruses? I mean, does soap destroy all viruses like this?

[@red2775]

Yes

[@futo]

Most people don't realize raw meat is eaten across east Asia. Look up Korean raw meat dish like Yukoe, a raw tenderloin dish or Japanese Sashimi, like a frog or horse meat Sashimi. It isn't about the meat. It's about the sanitation and hygiene of how the livestock is kept and how the proper sanitation process of butchering. Certain developed east Asian nations like Singapore, Japan, S.Korea, or Taiwan, have guidelines on food sanitation processing and regulation on how livestock is kept. China doesn't have any enforced regulations, and this is why all this trouble started. People also forget how rare steak is practically raw. But how the meat was butchered, maintain by refrigeration and how the livestock is kept is because of food guidelines and regulation. But also, sometimes even a bad decision is made like feeding cows with contaminated meat, and that's how Mad Cow disease started. Here's one, there are wet meat markets all over southeast Asia, not just China, where it's going to be the next place to start a new virus. There's no proper regulation in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia...so on. This will eventually happen all over again.

[@randomly_random_0]

In the Philippines, eating raw or equivalent to medium rare in steaks is considered GROSS, if there are, it's rare. This is why most of the foods there are oily and fried, which the white people don't find "delicious" and don't consider filipino foods on par with Thai/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese/Chinese/Cambodian foods.

[@lucretius8050]

Argh, there's no study that the reaction takes 20 seconds. It is 20 seconds cause the proper hand washing technique takes about 20 seconds and mechanics of hand washing helps dislodge more viruses. Otherwise I'll the advice would be just lather and wait.

[@soulgat3]

"..and the soaping motion rips the virus apart." 0:47

[@canningpark]

Dumb. Washing your hands alone is not enough, most important must educate the Chinese not to eat raw meat and bats, dogs, snake and so on.

[@jbsp16ma]

see 0.47

[@the_tube2]

Yes it is not enough, but it helps making sure u dont bring outside shit to inside shit