F**king hell! People still not washing their hands!

[skypilot]

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]

1. People aren't taking it seriously, even on DU people don't know 750 million people quarantined is

... different.

This is going to get bad

[at140]

3. I am hoping the peak will pass soon

I have heard when the hot weather arrives, the virus will lose it's punch.

[uponit7771]

6. It'll be similar to swine flu but without the competence of the Obama admin, a lot of people got ...

... sick from it, nearly 1/6 of US population.

It was pretty bad

[Squinch]

51. Except that swine flu had a mortality rate of .01%-.08% Coronavirus has a mortality of 3.4%

according to the WHO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic

That's a very big difference.

[uponit7771]

52. damn ... jus damn

[kcr]

22. Yes. The other thread full of "It's just old people at risk so whatever" is appalling.

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.

[Phoenix61]

2. I think sinks should be outside the bathroom.

I bet more people would wash their hands if there were witnesses.

[skypilot]

4. There's an idea.

*

[MLAA]

8. There was a nice restaurant in Shanghai that had the sinks all outside a row of toilet rooms

[Roland99]

12. And I'd prefer doors that swing either way so I can use my feet

[Maru Kitteh]

18. Use a paper towel to open the door, then toss the paper in the bin.

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]

20. I typically do but some doors have handles to pull to open

I’m just as skeeved by those

[USALiberal]

25. So rude to do that! Nt

[Maru Kitteh]

27. I'm not opening a piss/shit-stained handle with my clean hands for "manners"

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]

29. Still tacky as hell. Wow! Nt

[cwydro]

60. No kidding. SOMEONE has to pick it up!

But I guess that person will be some lowly custodian or some such, so who cares, right?

[USALiberal]

66. They don't care about who has to pick it up, it's all about them! nt

[stopdiggin]

45. not only tacky .. but REALLY arrogant and entitled (nt)

[Disaffected]

46. Agreed, it's useless

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]

38. Rude to do what?

Please explain.

[3catwoman3]

42. Lately, more and more public bathrooms now have trash receptacles...

...right near the door. I appreciate that a lot.

[llmart]

59. That's a terrible thing to do.

n/t

[skypilot]

21. Unfortunately...

...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]

44. If you want a door that does that...

...then just go to the kitchen and pee in a sink.

Plus, you can wash your hands right there!

[jberryhill]

30. I was in a club once that had a bathroom that swang both ways

[Skittles]

43. "swang"

*snicker*

[Nature Man]

62. I was once in a cocaine-fueled disco bathroom

where the inhabitants swang both ways.

[Polybius]

48. What difference would a dirty poop door make?

You're washing your hands right after.

[jimfields33]

63. And then walk back and pick up that menu. Yuk!!!!

That’s one of the biggest area of disease. Elevator button, escalators, and many other places. Be careful.

[lostnfound]

49. Great idea. And no door handle to touch afterward. Nt

[Wounded Bear]

5. If you spend too much time in the head, your friends will steal your beer...

[skypilot]

9. I don't think there will be...

...much beer stealing going on right about now.

[jberryhill]

32. That's why I leave a note saying "I spit in this beer"

But when I got back there was another note that said “So did I.”

[Roland99]

7. 3 guys at work yesterday didn't

I’m printing signs up tomorrow

[rzemanfl]

10. No offense, but his dick is probably cleaner than the dive bar. n/t

[skypilot]

13. That's cute...

...but you have no way of knowing that.

[rzemanfl]

16. That's why I said probably.

[Mosby]

33. And there probably is no coronavirus in his pee.

[jberryhill]

39. You can tell by the way it tastes

[Nature Man]

65. Urine IS sterile

right out of the "tap."

[Lars39]

67. Wrong

Urine is sterile until it leaves the body.

[jberryhill]

68. Popular myth

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]

11. Kids are still licking the handrails on the Boston Subway, so meh. nt

[MontanaMama]

41. My husband just flew home from Wisconsin.

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]

14. My husband says most of the men using the restroom at work

will walk out without washing their hands, go out and handle the coffeepot, keyboards, phones--makes him sick.

[dewsgirl]

55. We were in the airport when I was young, I remember my dad

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]

15. Let that sink in...

n/t

[3catwoman3]

17. What percentage of men wash their hands after urinating, even...

...when there are not global health concerns?

Less than half, I’m willing to bet.

[skypilot]

19. But there IS a global health concern...

...so it's a little different.

[3catwoman3]

24. Being in healthcare, and washing my hands so often that I refer to myself...

...as Lady MacBeth, I find men’s 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]

26. I would've rewashed the underwear myself

Dish towels are probably nastier ...

[skypilot]

28. Dish towels and underpants?

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]

31. Unfortunately. A combination of him being very certain he is right...

...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]

34. I'm glad I am not worried about stuff like that. Nt

[llmart]

57. +1000

[herding cats]

23. I saw today it was 13%.

Not a joke... seriously, only 13%. Women were better at 65%, but that still, eww.

[LanternWaste]

56. Your questioned got me curious and I did a quick search resulting in a common number

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]

69. Men watch this thing too...I'm sure it is different in different environments but at my office...

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]

35. Giggity . . . .

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]

36. Instead of complaining that they don't wash their hands

Why not offer to wash their hands for them?

[PSPS]

37. Need more of these

[mr_lebowski]

40. Yuck I always wash my gross germy hands before touching my nice clean unit (nt)

[Whiskeytide]

64. Yep. My junk has been tuck away clean ...

... since I showered this morning. My hands have touched a lot of things. Priorities, man.

[wiggs]

47. Realized that tonight. We went to a monthly cinema event...I figured the crowd would

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]

50. I work as a day janitor of a large building. Ask me anything

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]

53. There is a bright side to this

Once everyone is infected, we will not have to worry about quarantines any more.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

58. Maybe the guy was drunk?

Would explain the bad decision making.

[Nature Man]

61. Maybe he figured

"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.