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Measures employed to ensure coins are Covid-19 free

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07.00 update: World Health Organisation warns dirty bank notes could spread coronavirus

People have been urged to wash their hands after they have used bank notes.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) suggested people should use contactless payment instead.

It warned the infectious Covid-19 may cling to the surface of bank notes for a number of days.

A spokesperson said people should use contactless technology where possible to prevent the spread of the disease.

The Bank of England acknowledged last night that bank notes "can carry bacteria or viruses”.

It urged people to regularly wash their hands to help prevent germs spreading.

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  • absolutely <deleted> hilarious, couldnt be  more stupid if they tried.........and after the factory?

  • DannyCarlton
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    You think too mutt.

  • They should just put a bowl of bleach next to every cash register in the country and instead of handing the coins to you directly, dump them in the bowl and let you retrieve them yourself.  

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Coins, ah those metal discs for the common folk and pocket people who don't stick to bill fold, I always leave coins in change, tho I notice in-laws hoover em up if I pop to the toilets before leaving the restaurant, they think I don't notice their doggybag for their piggybank.

You have to hand it to them, you couldn't come anywhere near thinking up such sputidity - - no matter how hard you tried. 

How about:-

 

getting Thai to clean their homes, work places, strees etc?

 

Wear foot wear. Infections can also spread by unprotected feet too!

 

Dispose of litter in bins.

 

Clean filthy public toilets at petrol stations and at those crappy, horrible, filthy bars etc...

 

Just take a look at sois in and around Jomtien and Pattaya plus all other sois in Thailand and witness the filth, dirt and litter! And they claim Thailand Paradise!! Joke...

 

Keep dogs on a rope, out doors.

 

Get rid of street dogs.

 

Chickens kept in secure areas plus cattle etc...

 

Eat off a table, not floor..

 

Much much more can be done to improve peoples life's.

 

Clean coins!! 555

 

Not rocket science.

 

Or maybe it is?

 

He must have circulated a lot of coinage to get this job despite having no brain.

 It is called money laundering! ????

Obviously these Einsteins haven't given this process of money contamination much thought.  Ok.  Wash the coins at the mint.  Are you going to hire "coin scrubbers" to follow the money around and disinfect it as it passes from hand to hand?  

Truly a feel-good moment and photo-op for the Treasury Department, but little else.  Sorta like recommending people use less joss-sticks in order to solve the PM 2.5 problem.  It doesn't address the root causes.

And what planet and under what rock did they find this xxxxe\??? 

On 3/3/2020 at 1:58 PM, brain150 said:

The agenda is to go cashless !!!

Smart idea to use the fear of a virus ... not a big surprise though.

hmmm, that idea has been floated for a while, and more so now on other forums. sort of hard to fathom thailand, land of CASH, converting to a cashless digital society. might catch on with the younger crowd but granny and papa somchi up in the boonies? no way.

On 3/2/2020 at 6:07 PM, Chazar said:

absolutely <deleted> hilarious, couldnt be  more stupid if they tried.........and after the factory?

They covered that also but you deliberately chose to ignore it and, instead, label him as "couldn't be more stupid"?  How does that work?...

“However, for coins that have been in circulation for some time and have not yet returned to us, they still carry the risk of spreading the virus,” said Yutthana. “People therefore need to take care by washing their hands regularly or using a hand sanitiser.”

12 minutes ago, glennb6 said:

sort of hard to fathom thailand, land of CASH, converting to a cashless digital society.

Just as hard to fathom any country, all lands of cash, converting to a cashless digital society!

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