"hygiene theater" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2020 July 30, Zeynep Tufekci, “We Need to Talk About Ventilation”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "It seems baffling that despite mounting evidence of [ventilation's] importance, we are stuck practicing hygiene theater—constantly deep cleaning everything—while not noticing the air we breathe.",
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          "ref": "2021 April 6, Paige Winfield Cunningham, “The Health 202: Michigan is the new coronavirus hot spot. The U.K. variant is partly to blame.”, in Washington Post",
          "text": "The persistence of such practices has led to the advent of a derisive term — ‘hygiene theater’ — to describe rituals that appear to do little to stop the virus from spreading.",
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          "ref": "2021 July 12, Sirin Kale, “Hygiene theatre: how excessive cleaning gives us a false sense of security”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "[Bruce] Schneier agrees that Covid-19 has ushered in an era of hygiene theatre. “Like security theatre,” he says, “hygiene theatre comes from bad risk analysis – really, from ignorance.”",
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        "Acts of cleaning intended more for the purpose of making an area appear safe and clear of disease-causing agents than actually achieving that aim."
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