How To See Germs Spread Experiment (Coronavirus)

 

How To See Germs Spread Experiment (Coronavirus)

I've always thought if we could somehow just see the germs around us everyone would be a lot more careful and we get sick way less unfortunately that's still not possible so I did the next best thing by running a day-long experiment in this third grade classroom I found this powder called Glo germ and just like real germs when it's on your hands you can't see it but unlike real germs if you turn a black light on it becomes visible but it transfers to things you've touched so provides a really good way to visualize exactly how germs spread so before the kids arrived as a control I went around and noted any pre-existing spots in the room that fluoresced under the blacklight and then it was go time because of course had no idea what we were doing and that the teacher had been secretly infected with the glowing powder so she randomly shook the hands of three kids but didn't touch any of the rest and so with that they just went about their normal day at break I did choose one random student and he agreed to let me put some of the powder on his hands too and then two hours later at lunchtime I checked the results remember everything you see here started with just the teacher and one student having a little of that powder on their hands and because my flashlight can only illuminate one spot at a time I use Photoshop to better visualize our observations of where germs were left behind including on the other kids and they were actually pretty diligent about washing their hands this was the desk of the kid that was infected and what's crazy is that germs could live on a hard surface like this for up to nine days and so you can see how important it is to disinfect the things a sick person regularly touches for example this was the phone of the teacher in the experiment even if you