January 04 2017

OK, this is SO INSANE! Cash is even being considered a HEALTH THREAT! How deep will they go to convinve the sheeple to go cashless?!

Dirty dollars: The public health case for a cashless society

Studies have piled up in recent years describing exactly how filthy paper money can be

DINA FINE MARON, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Studies have piled up in recent years describing exactly how filthy — specifically how bacteria-laden — our dollars and cents can be. Fecal bacteria and other pathogens may have hitched a ride from someone’s hands, nose or apron onto our cash. And yeast or mold might have taken hold, too. The result could be a durable risk to our health whenever our money changes hands.

The fibrous surfaces of U.S. currency provide ample crevices for bacteria to make themselves at home. And the longer any of that money stays in circulation, the more opportunity it has to become contaminated. Lower-denomination bills are used more often, so studies suggest our ones, fives and tens are more likely to be teeming with disease-causing bacteria. Some of these pathogens are known to survive for months, according to a recent review of “dirty money” studies. Unfortunately, dirty dollars — whether denominations of $1 or $100 — are not whisked away to the cleaners when they need it. They tend to circulate for about four to 15 years, according to the Federal Reserve. And U.S. coins last even longer: about 25 years, the Fed says.

While cash spends all that time wandering from, say, a cocaine-sniffer’s nose to a waiter’s hands to someone’s back pocket, it is going to meet microbes. Many may be harmless but others could make us sick, and data accruing since the 1970s spotlights the microbial milieu that can hide on our cash. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which can cause life-threatening blood infections, can survive on our currency. The rogues’ gallery of pathogens isolated from banknotes or coins also includes: Escherichia coli (which can cause bloody diarrhea and sometimes even kidney failure or death) and Pseudonomnas aeruoginosa (which causes urinary tract and respiratory system infections). Separately, small quantities of cocaine, heroin, yeast and fungi have also been found on cash. A 2010 analysis by Australian researchers looked at the actual number of bacteria per square centimeter on various banknotes and found that a U.S. note contains 10 such microbes per square centimeter (higher than what Australia and New Zealand had on their currency.)

This pathogenic retinue likely extends beyond a few errant dollars that made their way to scientific labs. U.S. Air Force researchers published findings back in 2002 that concluded most $1 bills — 94 percent of 68 tested dollar notes — were harboring bacteria, including some which could cause pneumonia or other serious infections.

That public health risk may bolster the argument for considering a cashless society, a perennial and controversial proposal that recently received a plug from economist Kenneth Rogoff in his new book, “The Curse of Cash.” For reasons that have more to do with reining in crime and promoting economic policy than public health, he recommends following the lead of countries such as Sweden that have already stopped allowing cash in many locations, requiring card-based payments instead.

Such proposals obviously raise serious considerations, including many people’s reluctance to have every financial transaction recorded. There are also the logistic challenges of phasing out cash — probably a heavy lift, considering that Americans have not yet scrapped the penny despite years of data showing that, economically, we should. But if the question of a cashless society is approached purely from a public health standpoint, the answer seems clear.

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