# Putin's Disinfection Tunnel

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putins-disinfection-tunnel/855844>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 17, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putins-disinfection-tunnel/855844 "2020-06-17T12:37:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putins-disinfection-tunnel/855844/1 "2020-06-17T12:37:51Z")

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> **Russia Sets Up ‘Disinfection Tunnel’ To Protect Putin From Virus, State Media Says**
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> MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the novel coronavirus by a special disinfection tunnel that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow must pass through, the state-controlled RIA news agency reported on Tuesday.  
> The special tunnel, manufactured by a Russian company based in the town of Penza, has been installed at his official Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow where he receives visitors, it said.  
> Demonstration footage of the tunnel, published by RIA, showed masked people passing through it being sprayed with disinfectant from the ceiling and from the side.

All I can think of is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv3kcnI72Ec

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putins-disinfection-tunnel/855844/2 "2020-06-17T14:44:41Z")

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I immediately thought of the game “Tom Clancy’s: The Division”. You have to go through some kind of disinfection passage to get to team headquarters.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QqLseiN37YI/maxresdefault.jpg "Tom Clancy's The Division - Post Office") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqLseiN37YI)

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putins-disinfection-tunnel/855844/3 "2020-06-17T15:22:54Z")

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I forget what all happened when you met Saddam Hussein in person.

I think your clothes were all washed and sterilized. You were given a bath in disinfectant. Dentists would exam your teeth to make sure you didn’t have any false teeth that could hold poison in them. Obviously you were passed through a metal detector and searched for weapons too.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putins-disinfection-tunnel/855844/4 "2020-06-17T16:50:05Z")

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I’m thinking of 12 Monkeys when Cole returns from the past and he is getting scrubbed down with the heavy brooms and disinfectants.

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putins-disinfection-tunnel/855844/5 "2020-06-17T20:20:21Z")

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The Andromeda Strain.