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Germicidal UV could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water

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118 points venkii | 1 comments | 22 Sep 25 21:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mriet ◴[23 Sep 25 08:12 UTC] No.45344210[source]▶
Idiotic and massively overlooks/underestimates how complex biology is.

What about beneficial and neutral but important bacteria and viruses? "Air" is actually a complex soup of all types of things. This like applying HCl to a skin infection.

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1. Lapra ◴[23 Sep 25 11:46 UTC] No.45345637[source]▶
I recently read the book "Invisible Friends," and in it, among other things, the author does go on to explain that it's theorised that many skin infections come from a lack of biodiversity in a persons' skin microbiome, because the "good" or neutral microbes compete with the "bad" for resources. Supposedly people who share a house together often have similar gut microbiomes, too.

So yeah, I don't know. I think you have a point here.