{"id":137042,"date":"2018-09-05T23:53:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T05:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/the-germiest-place-in-the-airport-the-security-line.html"},"modified":"2018-09-06T14:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T20:22:26","slug":"the-germiest-place-in-the-airport-the-security-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/the-germiest-place-in-the-airport-the-security-line.html","title":{"rendered":"The germiest place in the airport? The security line"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

And how often do you think those touched-by-everyone buckets get cleaned?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

(Other high-virus places in the study: any sort of payment keypad; stairway railings; passport counters.)<\/p>\n


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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 … Continue reading “The germiest place in the airport? 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