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Closing toilet lid before flushing doesn't keep viral spray inside, study suggests
(www.cidrap.umn.edu)
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Funded and authored by the company wanting to sell you their disinfectant.
Ironically, stating the full truth would help them more. Mythbusters proved that even several rooms away will have fecal particles
The only way to stop this would be to change toilet lids to be an air tight seal (with some kind of 1 way valve to allow air in for flushing) or control the air flow, in a way that's strong enough to capture ejected particles, and suck it through a filter.
The second option would have the added benefit of capturing particulates when people are actually farting and shitting, as well as removing the smell.
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I’d guess the toilets with the vacuum suction (like planes) would pull in many of the aerosol articles, reducing density
Mythbusters proved that there are fecal bacteria everywhere and as such you can never reasonably completely avoid it. However, they didn't prove whether there are other bacteria or viruses that are kept contained with a closed lid compared to with an open lid, or if the viral/bacterial load is lower with a closed lid.