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Johnny Eagle posted...

.....that's a "high-risk behavior"?

When you're dealing with a virus that lives in mucous membranes, applying the mucous from those membranes to a public surface is a high-risk behaviour, yes. Off-hand, I don't know that any case transmissions have been conclusively linked to public tooth brushing, and toothpaste does have inherent anti-viral properties (mostly those that are inherent in any soap/detergent, especially when it comes to enveloped viruses) that will mitigate that risk to some extent or another, but intuitively, it doesn't seem like a great idea.

Again, that becomes less of an issue if the overall risk is lower.

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