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The buses where I live are postered with the following ubiquitous slogan regarding COVID-19:
Catch it. Bin it. Kill it.
I don't think the first of those three implorations is particularly great advice.
Yeah, I got it. I'd just never heard it. In the US, painters often say, "Hit it with the Bin."I think "bin it" is BrE for "throw it in the trash." But I certainly agree with jutfrank. The whole slogan seems pretty nonsensical as a way of preventing the spread of covid-19.
So I was picturing shellacking it with some heavy-duty primer. It's got to work, right? How could it not?
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