Timeline for How to press a touch sensitive elevator button without touching it
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| Aug 26, 2020 at 20:56 | comment | added | SurpriseDog | @Caius Do you understand exponential growth at all? Attitudes like this are why we are in a global pandemic right now. | |
| Aug 23, 2020 at 10:24 | answer | added | user600016 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 6:08 | comment | added | bandybabboon | Arnold Swartzenegger is fairly down to earth, he sais that eats out of dustbins sometimes and stuff that has been dropped on the floor, that it's good for his health. The immune system benefits from eating a bit of dirt. be like arnie. dont be scared of a bit of dirt. Use a moist surface for the elevator buttons, like a hankey paper with alcohol and throw the hankey. | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 19:34 | comment | added | James | @Sean: Yes, you are correct. That's why I was confused. The OP said "Touch sensitive", I pictured "mechanical" buttons, then was confused about why touching with a glove or jacket wouldn't work. | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 19:04 | comment | added | Caius Jard | If they published the numbers of people that died from influenza every year, or the numbers of people who have died in road accidents in the time that COVID19 has been in the headlines it might be quite a shock to you. Plane crashes make the news because a lot of people die at once but orders of magnitudes more people die from other forms of transport in between each crash. Keep a sense of perspective. Wash your hands, don't fiddle with your mouth. Your far more likely to shake hands with someone who just used the toilet and didn't wash, than contract COVID from an elevator button | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 18:36 | comment | added | Vikki | @James: If the OP's elevator had mechanical buttons, they wouldn't need to touch them with their skin in order to operate them, and, thus, wouldn't be having their present problem. | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 18:05 | history | protected | Chenmunka♦ | ||
| Feb 29, 2020 at 17:59 | answer | added | Aleksandr Hovhannisyan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 17:37 | comment | added | Fabian Röling | @AaronF That's a bad argument. Humanity also lost millions to the plague, long after becoming the dominant species. | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 22:34 | comment | added | James | @nexus_2006: I can't tell if you understood my comment, but I meant that mechanical buttons ARE "touch sensitive". | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 21:49 | comment | added | Barranka | My workplace elevators are also handled by a touch panel. I touch it with the corner of my badge (because sometimes when I touch it with my finger it recognizes the wrong floor number). Have you tried that? | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 21:12 | answer | added | SephB | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 19:39 | answer | added | Magmatic | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 19:37 | answer | added | KlaymenDK | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 19:02 | comment | added | nexus_2006 | @James I travel 20 days/month for work, and have never seen a touch-sensitive elevator button, only mechanical button, even in brand-new buildings. Might be a regional thing, I'm mostly in North America. | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 15:44 | answer | added | user30768 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 15:40 | comment | added | Caltor | You could use someone else's finger life Tom Cruise does with somebody's eye in Minority Report. | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 14:09 | answer | added | Cristobol Polychronopolis | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 8:58 | answer | added | LosManos | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 7:46 | comment | added | Tim | @AutomatedChaos if it’s got to the point that you’re concerned about touching surfaces in your office, don’t go to the office. | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 7:07 | comment | added | AutomatedChaos | @AaronF I agree. Normally germs/viruses wouldn't be a concern to me, but since we have the COVID-19 outbreak in my country, I'd like to prevent further spreading. I am not afraid for myself or my family, but containing the outbreak will significantly reduce risk for the elder, sick and the immunorepressed. The origin of this question was the annoyance that I couldn't touch the buttons with anything else than my skin. | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 2:17 | answer | added | Nagendra | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 20:30 | comment | added | James | I must be old. I spent WAY too much time trying to picture an elevator button that ISN'T touch sensitive (haven't they always been touch sensitive?). Didn't figure it out until I read the answers below. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 19:31 | comment | added | Aaron F | Just press the button. Humanity didn't become the dominant species on the planet by avoiding germs. Although, continuing to use the stairs is a good healthy option, too. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 19:20 | answer | added | Zeiss Ikon | timeline score: 21 | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 17:31 | answer | added | Kyle | timeline score: 23 | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 17:08 | answer | added | Elmy | timeline score: 51 | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 17:08 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 27, 2020 at 12:48 | answer | added | Hobbes | timeline score: 15 | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 10:17 | answer | added | Weather Vane | timeline score: 27 | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 9:00 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 27, 2020 at 8:58 | history | asked | AutomatedChaos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |