#sanitizing

also me: feels sick and brushes it off as the usual long COVID symptoms only to find out it's actually COVID again

"...and unlike hand sanitizer if the adorable little..." fools "...eat it, absolutely nothing happens."

The word used was not included in the quote bc it's an ableist slur (id*ot).

In 1807, two books appeared that would deeply influence the world of Shakespeare publishing, both originating largely with female creators – Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and Henrietta Bowdler’s Family Shakespeare. Although Mary wrote the majority of the Tales, the original imprints listed Charles Lamb as the sole author, thereby avoiding any negative publicity that might derive from Mary’s well-known psychotic episode, during which she killed their mother...

...Both books grew out of the impulse to make the works of Shakespeare available to those who could not previously access or understand them. The Lambs’ Tales focused on the combined market of women and children, particularly female children; by the second edition, the ‘Advertisement’ section described them as ‘not so precisely adapted for the amusement of mere children, as for an acceptable and improving present to young ladies advancing to the state of womanhood’...

...The images presented by the Lambs and Bowdlers of a male relative mediating contact for girls still existed, but a new social context also emerged: reading in a classroom with other children, overseen by a teacher. New approaches involved some trial and error, as demonstrated by a professor at Queen’s College, London, in the 1890s, whose student later recalled that

[we were] reading the sleep-walking scene in Macbeth when the Professor held up his hand: ‘Ladies, before proceeding further we will turn to the next page. We will count one, two, three lines from the top. We will count one, two words in this line. We will erase or cross out the second word and substitute the word “thou”. This line will then read “Out thou spot. Out I say.”’

Here's my take. Vampires are dead. Their bodies are trying to decompose but the vampire strain won't let the cells do their thing and continuously keep them in stasis.

Silver, as well as copper, bronze, and brass, are antimicrobial. Whenever you've smelt these metals or seen them tarnish, that's evidence that they're killing microbes, skin cells, diseases, viruses, etc. (A whole new take on 'born with a silver spoon in their mouth, eh?)

So my theory is that whenever the vampire comes into contact with silver and these other metals, that it fights against the vampire stasis charm on the cells and they begin to decay.

This doesn't account for vampires not showing up in mirrors or film though.

Not unless there was a time aspect to vampirism and a counter effect to it. Up vs down, wet vs dry, etc. So for the vampire's immortality- their body's disobedience of the laws of time and nature, there must be a counter. A counter to fix what is damaging our timeline.

Perhaps silver is the most time sensitive element and seeks to eradicate the unchanging presence from history as much as possible. And the more impure alloys, to a lesser degree.

But this is 2021. We are enlightened modern folk. What would be the weapon of choice for modern a vampire hunter? Easy.

Hand sanitizer. Or better yet, send them to a hospital. With the sheer mania the public has taken to sanitizing everything in the past twenty years, the chances of their being a vampire left is highly remarkable.

Consider: Cafe tables are wiped down regularly, antibacterial soap is in every restroom, company's usually have a cleaning crew which sanitize all the door knobs, housewives washing kids' hands, clothes, backpacks- i could continue. But there you have it. Vampires are killed by silver and disinfectant wipes.