The Fed is setting aside greenbacks from Asia for 7 to 10 days before processing them, citing corona

[yaesu]

Source: CBSNews

The Federal Reserve is delaying processing dollars that have been repatriated from Asia. The Louvre Museum in Paris isn't accepting cash from visitors. And Iran has urged its citizens to stop using bank notes over fears the coronavirus can be transmitted to humans through contaminated objects like cash.


Public health experts believe the novel coronavirus, which causes the sometimes deadly COVID-19, is transmittable through "fomites" — surfaces, including oft-exchanged paper money, that have been handled by an infected person.

"The belief is that these viruses can stay on surfaces in their fully active states for at least 10 days. That includes cash and all kinds of other surfaces that people normally touch," Dr. Sanjay Maggirwar, chair of the George Washington University School of Medicine's department of microbiology, immunology and tropical medicine, told CBS MoneyWatch. "So certainly with the coronavirus, cash handling is a concern."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-cash-handling-money-from-asia-aside/

[iluvtennis]

1. The belief is these viruses can stay on surfaces in their fully active states for 10 days - wow. nt

[yaesu]

4. I've heard the 10 days concern a while back, I'm doing the same with things I buy in stores now

for solid items like pill bottles, cans, ect... I use a hydrogen peroxide solution as a sanitizer. I may be going overboard but I'm in the high risk category.

[iluvtennis]

8. Great idea on sanitizing the pill bottles, cans, etc. -- going to follow your lead. nt

[yaesu]

9. keep safe and healthy 😉 nt

[Evolve Dammit]

2. Some countries are "disinfecting" paper currency. Good idea.

[jberryhill]

3. Yes, but money laundering is a crime in the US

[turbinetree]

6. Good one...............and I see the cow has a mask...............

[yaesu]

10. I bet tRumps ears perked up when he heard the Fed was in the money laundering biz

[Evolve Dammit]

12. HA! Like the mask on the... is theat the laughing cow? Has horns. Might be... Satan??

[jberryhill]

15. It's a coughing cow now

[Mike 03]

5. This is exactly why I'm not ruling out that it can be contracted through the

mail, packages, things in packages, etc...

Dr. Bill Wattenburg (his awful politics aside) always said "Don't get the mail during a pandemic."

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Well, then

what about oranges, bananas, kiwi, bok choy, apples, and potatoes?

Or baked goods surfaces? Everything is made, grown, handled somewhere

[pbmus]

11. So everything that comes into my house from anywhere is now wiped down

With sanitizer...fuck John Oliver...

[yaesu]

13. yep, and its sad we have to figure this out piece mill as we live in a leaderless country. nt

[PuffedMica]

14. Is the money being held in Trump's bank account so he can draw a little interest?

You know, so the Prez can make a few bucks off of that idle money.