Was sitting in a stall and heard a guy leave the urinal and loudly bitch to nobody in particular that he didn't touch his dick while pissing so he wasn't going to wash his hands, because, "fuck that shit." Why are people like this?
They feel powerless in their lives so they exert it aggressively and loudly over the menial things that they actually have control over. Another way to put it, they are not smart.
Wash your hands all you want. If you use the door handle afterwards, your hands will be unwashed once again. Because people who don’t wash their hands will have used it.
Whoa whoa whoa. So you're saying if everyone washes their hands, I use my shirt to open the door and I piss hands free I don't have to wash my hands? That's dope.
Be the change you want to see in the world. There's so much political bullshit around masking that people do it even less than they used to pre-covid, including healthcare workers.
I was on a plane a few months ago and I swear to god half the plane was visibly sick. Coughing contantly, rubbing snot from their nose, looking upset. Etc. Zero had masks. This was an international flight so it wasn't even a US thing. The world is universally fucking stupid.
Anytime I go shopping, especially at Costco or Target, there will be at least one person coughing in the open, no mask or anything. I make a beeline away from them as fast as I can, but sometimes I just wish I could yell at these people for being selfish idiots…
Because I've had this conversation too many times before:
If you use the urinal, wash your hands. Even if you didn't have to touch it to flush, wash your hands. Your dick is not "cleaner than the door handle", wash your hands.
While the door handle is an obvious thing, washing hands when using the restroom is also a great way to regularly wash hands without needing a schedule!
Your phone is the dirtiest thing you carry around. If you never clean it, it's dirtier than the toilet bowl.
Reminder to wash your phone! Wipe it down with a damp cloth, then douse it all over in ISO alcohol and wait 1 minute before drying. I do this every day or 2, because I'm not a grotty cunt... Well I am, but I ungrot myself as often as I remember.
I used to think that I didn't need to wash my hands after using the restroom because my entire body gets washed on a daily basis, so touching my dick isn't a reason to wash them.
Don't get me wrong, I still believe that touching my dick doesn't warrant washing my hands. Now though, I wash them when I use the restroom (though sometimes before rather than after) because it's a way to ensure that my hands get washed regularly. Most of the other stuff I touch throughout the day doesn't get washed on a daily basis.
This is my kids. Then they get offended when I tell them to go back and wash their hands. Ok, let me see your hands then. They go back to wash their hands, grumbling under their breath.
Ever see the Mythbusters episode where they lined up toothbrushes to see how far fecal matter traveled. Right near the toilet was the worst but nowhere was safe.
So yes washing hands helps but it's not the be all, end all solution.
I'm sure someone will disagree with me but I think protecting ourselves completely from infection isn't a good idea. Particularly after reading Immune (good but not the best resource) I think washing our hands all the time or using antibacterial soap is not a good choice for our individual health and immune system strength.
I'll agree on not using antibacterial soap all the time. There's plenty of soaps that aren't antibacterial but still help remove contaminants. People should definitely at least wash their hands with hot water. It's one thing to harbor trace amounts of bacteria, but no one should be spreading urine or fecal matter to every surface they touch.
One of the first things they taught in my micro bio class is that no single bacteria is bad. What is bad is when they are where they shouldn't be. This makes the point of hand washing more or less to remove bacteria that may be problematic being on your hands where you could spread them to vulnerable areas.
Regular hand soap is perfectly fine. It may dry your hands out from overuse, but as soon as you touch any part of your body (like your arms or face) your hands would be inoculated with your body's natural flora that resides on your skin.
Antibacterial soap would be the larger issue, as a lot of them have what is called a persistent effect. This persistent effect means that the antibacterial agent leaves traces of itself behind and will kill any bacteria that is susceptible to it. While good if used responsibly for people like surgeons to eliminate/reduce any stray bacteria during a procedure, this can lead to the same sort of scenario we have with antibiotics where some bacteria may develop a resistance to it, which could also include pathogenic varients/strains.
Washing hands a few times a day when using the restroom is infrequent enough to not be considered washing them all the time. There are hours to get some bacteria, but washing a few times a day reduces the volume so your body doesn't need to fight as hard.
I dont live in a sterile environment. There is a lot of ground between bleaching your home every morning and licking every door handle in Central Station.
Hygiene isn't so much about the individual, but rather about everyone. What may be a normal exposure level to you, because you work in a hospital or have kids or whatever, that may be far above the normal exposure level of others, meaning if they get in prolonged contact with you, they're fucked.
In particular, some people simply have limitations to their immune system, which cannot be fixed by exposing themselves.