Working with radioactive stuff and life in the days of Covid-19.
I just picked up the mail, and went in to wash my hands carefully.
It reminded me of my youth.
When I was a kid, I used to prepare radioactive tracers for various kinds of scientific analytical work. Even with gloves, it meant a lot of hand washing, because occasionally the radioactivity would make it through the gloves, or I'd get caught by some unintentional sloppiness, not necessarily my own.
The nice thing about radioactivity, as opposed to Covid-19, is that with radioactivity you could tell how well you washed the radioactive material off with just a Geiger counter. It was pretty straight forward. You had feedback right away
It's not so easy with Covid. Of course, I could wash my hands with fluorescently labeled antibodies, but that might be costly.
Covid kind of sucks, doesn't it?
That said, it was nice of Covid to remind me of being a kid again. As Eric Idle sang, always look on the bright side of life.
