The consequences of a pandemic: mountains of garbage and billions of damage
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Now the whole world is sitting at home and not out on the street. But this can't go on forever, in a month or two the quarantine gets lifted in many countries and people will go to work, study, etc. most Likely, countries will have to take tough measures to prevent new outbreaks of the virus. In South Korea and China, it is decided obliging people to wear masks and gloves. Of course States will have to keep closed restaurants, cinemas and other crowded places, otherwise remove the quarantine just doesn't make sense. I can't imagine in the near future, football matches or concerts filled stadiums or concert halls. It's just insanely dangerous.
But the state will have access to shops, supermarkets, offices, universities and most importantly — public transport. It simply makes no sense to lift the quarantine, people have to get to work, to go to the office and study. Without entertainment the world would be able to live without work and study there.
we've All had something similar today, if we go to the store
I understand that the shops will be lined in the queue we will stand in 2 meters from each other, their seats will be marked with red crosses and we will sit through one sitting. But what will happen in rush hour? What will happen on the escalators? We will not be able to keep a distance everywhere and always, it will create huge traffic jams.
In some cities mark the inside of public transport
And then the question arises: are all these people in the subway and the offices will wear masks and gloves? My answer — Yes, and it will be essential both from the state and from the people. I don't want to let my wife or child in a public place with no means of protection next year, too great a risk of re-infection. We know that there were two waves, and the second stronger than the first. Already, many virologists predict a second outbreak of the coronavirus in October 2020.
The question Then arises, how many will have masks to the population? How much will it cost and most importantly what harm these masks and gloves will cause the nature? We perfectly understand that the mask be disposed of separately, gloves are to be thrown into the common tanks and then thousands of years to rot in landfills or are burned in incinerators, and soot will settle in our lungs.
Already have reached the point that the tortoise began.
Reusable mask with replaceable filters
Now let's do the math, as they say «fingers». One mask is worth 5P. (in normal times), you can wear it 4 hours, some models can be washed. On average, can take: one mask per person per day. Children, adults, the elderly — will all be wearing masks. Russia's population of 144 million people, this implies that per day 80% of the population will be forced to wear a mask when leaving the house (assuming 20% are at home).
Gloves are more expensive, but they have two... about 8 rubles for a pair of gloves. Although walking all day in one pair of gloves is very hard, they quickly break.
Now note 115 million masks will go to waste daily only in Russia, and 115 million pairs of latex gloves. I don't know how much weight one mask or a glove, but I assure you 115 million pieces per day, it's not KAMAZ, hundreds of truckloads of garbage. And so every day, day in and day out: in the trash, in garbage, in the garbage.
Total per person: 8P. + 5P. = 13 rubles a day or 400 rubles per month. Multiply 400 rubles per month for 115 million and get 46 billion rubles per month on the mask and gloves.
But again, I'm not so afraid of spending which will have to go to the people and the States, and worried that the whole Earth will be covered with these gloves and masks. The nature of the damage can be caused just enormous and irreparable.
Just think, we thought you Russia, and in a world of 7 billion people. All of our estimates can be multiplied by 70! And how many years will it last?
Disinfection powder on an industrial scale.
Disinfection
P. S. And we don't evenaffected countries ' spending on processing of surfaces of different compositions, which end up in the river... Maybe individual countries will use disinfection special powders, and these funds will go into the air we breathe.
In the middle ages in Europe, doctors wore these leather masks during the bubonic plague. Inside the beak were aromatic salts and herbs that the doctor did not smell the decaying flesh. The eye holes were covered with glass.
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