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Am I cheap if I am confused who would pay $40 for this?

Scared people.

You can sell them almost anything. A tactic heavily used in politics all around the world ;-)

And back then a lot of us were scared.

Scared but also misinformed, as Covid never spread by touch.

Well. Easier to say now than back in the days when being careful when touching anything was government guidelines almost everywhere.

That's true, although those government guidelines were not rooted in any evidence at the time. They were speculative.

Now for example, we know for a fact that monkeypox spreads through touch and physical contact, but still most people don't take action to safeguard against it.

Its shiny

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