Olight i3UV EOS Ultraviolet Keychain Flashlight (Green) Expired

This is a UV light (aka blacklight), not the handy flashlight from the last deal. This is pretty much worthless unless you're trying to gross yourself out or charge up glow in the dark things. Apparently people also use them to find scorpions down south as well.

Political idiocracy aside, this is not the effective UVC, which while not yet 100% proven on COVID-19, has been used since mid-1900's in medical and agro-tech purposes to deactivate microorganisms.

UVC, at the 200 to 280 nm wavelengths, essentially breaks apart DNA. To be effective, the light source must be powerful, and close enough to the organism to 'kill' it. In primitive terms, think of hitting a fly with a flyswatter, who's not dead just yet but you know how it's going to end. The longer the direct UVC exposure, the quicker until it meets its fate.

Fortunately this is not UVC.

USE DEVICES WITH UVC WITH EXTREME CAUTION. If you look directly at a UVC bulb, or hold close to your skin while on, in a matter of seconds you can cause permanent vision damage and/or give yourself cancer. Or try to swallow a bulb like a sword for the next social media challenge; I'll look for your name in the next Darwin Awards.

Another way to think of it is like this:
UVC, like X-Rays, irradiates everything it comes into contact. When you go to the dentist, you're outfitted with a heavy lead apron (with a giant x-ray gun pointed just below your brain) and everyone else runs out of the room before they flip the switch. Professionals know how to handle, and stay clear of things like this or you'll regret it for the rest of your life.

If you're interested in building your own irradiation chamber, like what they have in hospitals to re-use masks and other PPE, you can follow the instructions here, which is backed up by several scientific sources:
https://makezine.com/projects/bui...-covid-19/

Costs between $50-$100 depending on what size chamber you want, and you can save tons of money on lysol by tossing everything from masks to gloves (not latex), keys, mail, tote bags, headphones, credit cards, cash, etc etc in here. A nice way to spend several hours at home on a new project too....

If only we could figure out a way to get this light into our bodies!

Edit: Do not eat this light