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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsF**king hell! People still not washing their hands!
I was just in the bathroom at my favorite dive bar taking a leak. There is only one sink. A guy comes in after me to pee. I am finishing up washing my hands and am grabbing a paper towel to dry them (so it's not as though he has to wait for long). He finishes peeing, zips up and walks out. This is annoying as shit even in non-pandemic times but these days...WTF?
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... different.
This is going to get bad
at140
(6,110 posts)I have heard when the hot weather arrives, the virus will lose it's punch.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... sick from it, nearly 1/6 of US population.
It was pretty bad
Squinch
(50,955 posts)according to the WHO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
That's a very big difference.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)kcr
(15,317 posts)combined with "It's no different than the flu. Carry on!" No, you don't have to seal yourself off in a bunker, but at the very least, be mindful and have some awareness of what is going on. There is no excuse for such willful ignorance in the face of a very real, serious situation.
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Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)I bet more people would wash their hands if there were witnesses.
skypilot
(8,854 posts)*
MLAA
(17,298 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)They should have a bin right next to the door. If the don't, just drop it by the door anyway. They'll soon get the hint and put one there.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Im just as skeeved by those
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)I value my health and the dozens to hundreds of people I may come in contact with more than someone's perceptions of propriety.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)But I guess that person will be some lowly custodian or some such, so who cares, right?
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)stopdiggin
(11,316 posts)Disaffected
(4,555 posts)carefully washing your hands in a public washroom and then having to grasp the door handle on the way out. I'd do the same as you.
As someone else mentioned, it should be mandatory that the doors swing both ways so one can use an elbow or foot to open them.
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)Please explain.
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...right near the door. I appreciate that a lot.
llmart
(15,540 posts)n/t
skypilot
(8,854 posts)...that would not work in this particular space and probably not in many other spaces. A door that swings both ways can present a bit of a hazard, especially if it is pushed or kicked with too much force.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...then just go to the kitchen and pee in a sink.
Plus, you can wash your hands right there!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)*snicker*
Nature Man
(869 posts)where the inhabitants swang both ways.
Polybius
(15,428 posts)You're washing your hands right after.
jimfields33
(15,820 posts)Thats one of the biggest area of disease. Elevator button, escalators, and many other places. Be careful.
lostnfound
(16,180 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)skypilot
(8,854 posts)...much beer stealing going on right about now.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)But when I got back there was another note that said So did I.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Im printing signs up tomorrow
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)skypilot
(8,854 posts)...but you have no way of knowing that.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)Mosby
(16,318 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Nature Man
(869 posts)right out of the "tap."
Urine is sterile until it leaves the body.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Urine comes into contact with the urinary tract which can infect the urine with all kinds of things.
If you have a bladder infection, UTI, or STD, your urine is most certainly not sterile, but read on...
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/urine-not-sterile-and-neither-rest-you
Urine is not sterile, even before it comes out of you and gets contaminated by your skin. Bacteria are present at low levels in the urine of healthy people not suffering from a urinary tract infection, Evann Hilt of Loyola University of Chicago reported May 18 at a conference of the American Society for Microbiology. Now, Hilt and her colleagues are figuring out what bacteria make up the normal bladder community and whether a change in that community might trigger urinary problems.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)He told me there was a kid licking the windows at his departure gate and then the same kid went and licked the front of the gate counter. Both parents on their phones.
BusyBeingBest
(8,054 posts)will walk out without washing their hands, go out and handle the coffeepot, keyboards, phones--makes him sick.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)saying, out of the 6 people in the restroom he had just stepped out of, only 2 washed their hands, it's funny what stays with you.
Blue Owl
(50,407 posts)n/t
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...when there are not global health concerns?
Less than half, Im willing to bet.
skypilot
(8,854 posts)...so it's a little different.
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...as Lady MacBeth, I find mens lack of attention to hand washing after being in the bathroom fairly disgusting. All the more so now.
It took me years to convince my husband that dish towels and underpants should not be washed in the same load. Until I got thru to him, I would always re-wash the dish towels when he did the laundry.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Dish towels are probably nastier ...
skypilot
(8,854 posts)It took you YEARS to get him to not wash them together?
I don't even wash my underwear with my other clothes and I wash my dish towels by hand, seperate from everything.
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...about many things, and me being pretty sucky at being assertive. It was easier to just re-wash things until I prevailed.
Underwear and pajama pants get washed separately from everything else, and a load of whites in hot water with bleach gets washed after the undies.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)herding cats
(19,565 posts)Not a joke... seriously, only 13%. Women were better at 65%, but that still, eww.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)About 1/3 of men do not wash hands after urinating.
"But survey after survey (including one in which scientists secretly camped out in bathrooms) have revealed a dirty truth: people don't always wash their hands before they leave the bathroom. One study suggested that only 67% of people wash their hands after they go."
https://www.businessinsider.com/bathroom-hand-washing-after-using-the-toilet-2018-8
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)probably 95% of the guys wash their hands after urinating and 99% after um using the stall.
Typically those of us who are hand washers share with the others when we see someone not wash their hands so that we all know to be careful after that person. Definitely those who don't wash after using the stall are blacklisted and avoided by all men under any circumstance.
Incidentally, my wife sees women not wash their hands about as often as I see men not wash their hands, so it's definitely not a one sided issue.
Aussie105
(5,401 posts)Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
My germs are free
I gladly share with you!
Yeah, but pee, not wash, grab some free peanuts off the bar, instant booby trap for the next peanut grabber!
Seeing the method of transmission of COVID-19 isn't clearly understood, washing one's paws is the least you can do, precaution wise.
(Better to stay out of bars, really.)
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Why not offer to wash their hands for them?
PSPS
(13,601 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... since I showered this morning. My hands have touched a lot of things. Priorities, man.
wiggs
(7,814 posts)be thin and since we are trying to be careful and vigilant about washing hands and such, it would be fun and perhaps we won't be getting out as much soon, if our area became hot with CV.
Theater was pretty full...but was I was surprised by was the number of people who were coughing and sneezing in public. Chances are, not CV, right? Not yet anyway, here. But you would think that they would be sensitive to others around them worrying about CV!
Then I realized with sadness that this is why a pandemic which reaches the US will be hard to contain. People, at least in this more conservative area, don't yet believe in the CV threat...don't think it's real...don't care what others think...don't worry about others...don't listen to the scientists and health care folk...think their enjoyment more important than how it affects others. Now, CV could end up fizzling out but that doesn't make them right. When a real micro organism threat comes along it will be the same.
Getting people with cowboy/conservative/Trump attitudes to cooperate voluntarily with pandemic protocols is not going to happen as early as necessary to achieve containment.
Luz
(772 posts)about peoples habits.
I visit every person in every office and desk. I know the guy on 1st who's coughing and taking cough syrup is pushing buttons in the elevator. A lady on 2 had a sneeze attack, there are 3 other people work in her small office. I know who has the sniffles, and who has it next.
People aren't taking it seriously. I'm begging my company to at least send cans of lysol so we can spray the elevator buttons and door handles. Nothing yet. No training or direction on how to deal with something like this. The company advertising to have had meetings and training and that we're capable of handling all of your virus concerns, but we're not.
Chainfire
(17,549 posts)Once everyone is infected, we will not have to worry about quarantines any more.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Would explain the bad decision making.
Nature Man
(869 posts)"my cock, my choice" and decided it was clean enough.
Do aerosolized droplets of urine spread Covid-19?
Touching the door handle is more risky than a man touching his own penis, I would suppose.