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[–] [email protected] 96 points 7 months ago (5 children)

COVID or not, wash your damn hands. It is disgusting to see a person deposit a shit and walk right past the soap and water.

[–] VindictiveJudge 43 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] thecodeboss 11 points 7 months ago

Washing your hands is difficult and can cause trauma, so I don't blame them /s

[–] FlashMobOfOne 13 points 7 months ago

People won't.

COVID's most important lesson is that it's the fucking Wild West and we're all stuck doing our best to protect ourselves.

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[–] themeatbridge 46 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I like how Covid ending was just everyone collectively accepting that we can't save ourselves from ourselves, so fuck it let's get ice cream.

[–] meleethecat 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

No, we have a vaccine now so its not an epidemic anymore.

[–] 9point6 35 points 7 months ago

Personal hygiene shouldn't go out the window the second a threat isn't existential enough

[–] dohpaz42 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, we have a vaccine. No the pandemic is not over yet. Bonus points: we still have an unhealthy large number of people refusing to get vaccinated.

[–] meleethecat 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know this is semantics, but because most people are vaccinated and the virus isn’t spreading uncontrolled, it’s not an epidemic/pandemic any longer; it’s just endemic. You should still wash your hands and wear a mask if you’re sick or around sick people, but covid isn’t a daily problem for most people now.

[–] RedAggroBest 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yea, just as many people (which is too many) saying "we're still in a pandemic!!!_+$+$+#" as the deniers and freaking out like if we just put in a little more effort COVID would just go poof and disappear.

Like no, sorry to say but the pandemic is over. COVID is now endemic and we're stuck with it forever, like the flu.

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[–] samus12345 5 points 7 months ago

A vaccine which a lot of people are not getting every year like they should.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I can save myself, it's you dull fucks I can't save myself from.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The one thing I was hoping we'd keep from Covid was sick people wearing masks in public.

Guess not.

[–] YarHarSuperstar 14 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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…

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's more diseases than COVID that can fuck people up out there

Please wash your hands and keep at least a few feet back

I don't need to feel your breath on my neck while we're in line

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I miss the day where it was illegal to smell someone's aweful breath and bo

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a guy with covid currently, it is not, in fact, over.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

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!

[–] TubularTittyFrog 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

this assumes you don't wash your dick everytime you go to the bathroom

[–] tuxtey 5 points 7 months ago

That's what the little soap puck in the urinal is for

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[–] gmtom 24 points 7 months ago

One of the most disappointing g things about growing up is realising how many adults are not actual adults.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

No wonder they found fecal bacteria on shopping carts handles.

[–] WhatAmLemmy 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[–] dohpaz42 10 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] TheRedSpade 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

Wash your hands because the sink is there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When you flush a toilet, urine and feces are splashed around the room in droplet form.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Just flush with it closed?? I know that they are splashed, but to avoid that you can literally just close the toilet.

(I don't know if "close" is the correct verb, I cannot remember what the part of the toilet that covers the seat is called)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I still don't know why people use the toilet and don't close the lid. WTF is it there for it you ALWAYS leave it open?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Public toilets usually don't have complete lids in America.

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[–] BallShapedMan 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

That's a horrible excuse to have disgusting hands

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BallShapedMan 3 points 7 months ago

The way you phrased that is powerful. Nobody should want to spread that stuff everywhere... Ew!

[–] EtherWhack 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You only go to the restroom a few times a day?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, your immune system needs exercise just like the rest of your body.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is a thinly veiled parenthood meme

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

My office at work is across from the men's room. This meme is me.

So many times a day this happens and I work with these fucks.

Wash your damn hands

[–] tpihkal 5 points 7 months ago

Pizza parties at work be like 🤮

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

COVID isn't over until supreme pizza toppings are available again at the Costco food court.

[–] idunnololz 3 points 7 months ago

Also, please social distance your ass out of my basement .

no deal

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