Well, personally I think that this is a pretty good initiative, with the co-branding with RB and all, but this being FT, of course the first comment to start the thread needs to be skeptical and somewhat negative...
Originally Posted by
dmarge18
i don't like having to bring my phone to the gym when I work out.
Oh, so you're the person who comes into the gym like no one else is there and sets the TV to blast Fox News at deafening volume since you don't bring your own music. Really appreciate that.
Also, while people have been getting all worked up about surface transmission and infectious particles lingering around for a long time, the amount of detectable material drops off exponentially - the 24 or 48 or 72 hour figures we hear people cite are literally the limit of detection with laboratory equipment, not a statement on whether that is anywhere near sufficient viral load to cause infection. See below. The literature I've reviewed has only found one suspected case of surface transmission. So frankly, while I'm not an "expert"*, I personally think that the scare about surface transmission is highly overblown.
(*Of course these days everyone is an "expert", when the most-read author on this subject is some guy who worked for a video game company...)