All those hands and germs and sighs and growls and stuff make those buckets of x-ray baggage pretty viral, and not in a popular way.
And how often do you think those touched-by-everyone buckets get cleaned?
I might keep my eyes open for a Purell station after going through my next TSA checkpoint. Except that won’t wash off my wallet, my luggage, or whatever else was sitting in those buckets.
(Other high-virus places in the study: any sort of payment keypad; stairway railings; passport counters.)
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