Editing 1161: Hand Sanitizer

The number of germs that would be left after using the hand sanitizer is 200 million times 0.01%. 0.01% is equivalent to .0001 decimal, so the simple equation is 200000000 × .0001. That equals 20 thousand germs, which is still a surprisingly large number of germs. Recently scientists have shown that it only takes 20 virus particles to infect someone [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2257098/Larry-projectile-vomiting-robot-helping-British-team-learn-stop-spread-norovirus.html] (with analyzed virus; not all germs are equally effective). However, they have also previously noted that the effectiveness of hand sanitizer is actually higher than 99.99%, but it's a bit awkward to print a more precise decimal in an advertising slogan.

Note that in some simple/business calculators entering the calculation as "200000000 × 0.01 %" is '''incorrect''' and may produce a number such as 2 million. Pressing "=" after may also be incorrect and may produce 400,000,000,000,000. This is because the "%" key in those calculators does not denote that preceding number is a {{w|percentage}}, but instead signify an operation related to percentage, for example some calculator the "%" key will replace the preceding number with that number as a {{w|percentage}} multiplied with the number before that ([http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/01/10/7047497.aspx How does the calculator percent key work? - The Old New Thing]).

"Hipster CDC" is a combination of the acronym for the {{w|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention}}, an organization dedicated to studying infectious diseases and limiting their spread, with the label {{w|Hipster (contemporary subculture)|hipster}}. Hipsters form a cultural group associated with a distaste for popular culture; they stereotypically talk about how bands, authors, etc. were better before they "went mainstream" and proclaim that they liked a certain thing "before it was cool." The title text etends this sensibility to the flu, which in fact did peak years ago, such as in 1918, when a {{w|1918 flu epidemic|world-wide flu epidemic}} killed tens of millions. The humor lies in the notion that the "Hipster CDC" apparently approves of the time when the flu was more widespread and fatal, while most people consider the diminishment of the flu is a good thing. This could be a jab at hipsters' common insistence on liking things before they "go mainstream": many things, before they go mainstream, just aren't very good, and therefore hipsters' taste in things is highly questionable.

:Cueball (typing on calculator): 200 000 000 × 0.01% =