The Apostle Paul listed the qualifications for leaders of Christ's churches in 1 Timothy3:3 & 8. One of those was that they should not be "greedy of filthy lucre". The emphasis here is on the word "greedy" which becomes even more egregious when it applies to something that becomes nasty dirty and carries diseases as it is passed, hundreds of times, from germ ridden hand to hand. RB
Chinese Banks Quarantining Cash, Destroying 'Dirty' Money
Authored by Mitchell Blatt via NationalInterest.org,
China’s widespread quarantine policy thanks to the coronavirus had been expanded from the city of Wuhan to a dozen other cities in Hubei province, to community quarantines for people returning from holiday, and now even inanimate objects must be quarantined. Paper currency, that is.
People’s Bank of China representatives said at a press conference on February 15 that currency deposited at banks must be disinfected with ultraviolet light and then held for a week or longer before being released back into the wilds of the economy. The Chinese central bank will provide new bills worth 600 billion yuan to banks. (Some of the currency will be destroyed.)
Those who work closely with cash are keenly aware of how filthy money is.
“When I’m at work, I realize cash is the dirtiest thing in the world,” Wang Zeyaun, a bank teller in Hangzhou, says.
It’s true. A 2002 study of American $1 bills found bacteria on over 90 percent, and a Swiss study found that the flu virus can survive from between a few days and two weeks on francs. (Metal coins are not as dirty as fabric bills.) Richard W. Rahn, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, hopes that paper currency will disappear.
In China, it is already on its way to extinction. According to eMarketer, a NYC-based online commerce research firm, China leads the world by far in mobile payment with 81 percent adoption by its smartphone users in 2020. Measured as a proportion of total population, China also leads the world, with 35 percent in 2019, according to Statista Digital Market Outlook.
Those who do not use smart phones, or, if they do, are less likely to use advanced features, are disproportionately the elderly. The elderly are also more likely to have compromised immune systems and less likely to survive serious illness. So many news articles in Chinese media point to their use of cash as an important reason to clean currency. During the Spring Festival period, the elders also customarily give cash in red packets to young children, who also are at greater risk from sickness.
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My Comment:
It is a most interesting fact that paper/cloth currency contains several perfect capabilities to carry and transfer germs and viruses from one person to another. But silver coins have a natural, built-in antibiotic power put there by its Creator, which kills bacteria. The pioneers, traveling at walking speed across the west, hid their silver coins in their water barrels and found that the water slowly removed the coin's tarnish which purified their often impure water. RB
This from Wikipedia:
The medical uses of silver include its use in wound dressings, creams, and as an antibiotic coating on medical devices.[1][2][3] Wound dressings containing silver sulfadiazine or silver nanomaterials may be used on external infections.[4][5][6] The limited evidence available shows that silver coatings on endotracheal breathing tubes may reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia.[7] There is tentative evidence that using silver-alloy indwelling catheters for short-term catheterizing will reduce the risk of catheter acquired urinary tract infections.[8][9][10]
Silver generally has low toxicity, and minimal risk is expected when silver is used in approved medical applications.
Silver, used as a topical antiseptic, is incorporated by bacteria it kills. Thus dead bacteria may be the source of silver which may kill additional bacteria.[19
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