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Yeah, wasn't disagreeing with fundamental premise, just picking on the bleach bit.


My sentence construction was a little ornate but the antecedent was "bacteria", not "viruses and bacteria and anything else you can imagine"


Well you're in luck because I said virus (accidentally) but I really meant "bacteria" - I don't think viruses can form spores, but who knows what we'll find. There are a lot of hijackings of cellular machinery that happen, and maybe we'll find one that uses a bacterial spore as a stealth capsule.

There are indeed bacteria which can survive high bleach concentrations. It was a minor nitpick.


I wound up reading about some particularly resilient strains of c diff and wow, that's spooky stuff.

But I bet if you weren't worried about etching or skin safety you could find a concentration that would handle those little buggers. It's the sterilization equivalent of "It can't be stuck if it's liquid"




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