Microphone 🎤 Infection. A dangerous scenario

Yesterday, in Legal Authority function, a distinguished speaker of Karnataka High Court suddenly suffered throat allergy and it took a minute or two to recover.

While we are taking care of hygiene everywhere, we have completely ignored mic 🎤 which is a dangerous instrument.

A person while speaking through mic, invariably spews relatively small amount of saliva on the surface of the mic. Unless the mic is cleaned immediately after his speech, the next speaker certainly comes in contact with the residue left on the mic. This is extremely dangerous especially during Corona pandemic.

When the basic structure case was argued before Nigerian High Court, I observed how the mic was cleaned immediately after the arguments of a lawyer was over.

Apart from using sanitizer, use & throw masks can be used to cover the mic.

I request the organisers to take note of this.

S. Basavaraj
Daksha Legal

Published by rajdakshalegal

Senior Advocate, High Court of Karnataka, Bengaluru

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