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[...] In 2013, researchers at Michigan State University carried out a thankless, if mildly creepy, study. They observed how more than 3,500 residents of their college town used the sink at various restrooms after they carried out their business.
Some 10 percent of people observed chose not to wash their hands at all, which is simply not an acceptable way to end a trip to the bathroom. But even the vast majority of people who tried to wash their hands managed to totally flub the proper routine. Almost a quarter of people washed their hands without soap, for instance. And only 5 percent washed their hands for at least 15 seconds or longer, which is actually lower than the 20-second minimum of handwashing recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://gizmodo.com/in-a-world-of-mrsa-and-superfungi-you-need-to-start-wa-1833889953
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:44PM (11 children)
After dinner at a restaurant with my uncle (20 years ago), I grabbed a mint from a bowl on the way out. Before I could start sucking on it, my uncle reported a university study, looking at what was on the surface of mints in a similar situation. Turns out there were more than just trace amounts of urine -- pretty clearly people hadn't washed their hands after peeing, then fished around in the mint bowl...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:00PM (2 children)
I can't remember seeing mints in a restaurant that were not individual wrapped.
Now there are pretzles / peanuts in a bar -- but I don't go to bars.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:18PM (1 child)
> ...peanuts in a bar -- but I don't go to bars.
Local brew pub has good food (and I might have a beer with dinner). They have free peanuts, roasted in the shell so you have to pop them open yourself. Seems fairly sanitary? Shells go on the floor.
I love to take parents with kids there, the kids love to throw the shells on the floor, while the parents blanch or tsk-tsk.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:25PM
I have enjoyed eating at a local brewery occasionally. As for peanuts in the shells . . . Five Guys burgers.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:01PM (2 children)
I'm a nail-biter. I touch door handles, counters, and other common areas, then stick my fingers in my mouth and gnaw on my nails. All that stuff that was on the handle/counter/etc is now in my mouth.
...and then I dig around for the mints... with my slobbery hands. I always go for the ones at the bottom of the dish too.
Did you know some people that work at restaurants don't wash their hands properly? Did the subway worker wash their hands after handling money? Did you co-worker get shit on their hands then not wash them and then open the door with their shit-hands?
If you think about hygiene too much you'll go crazy.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:27PM
> If you think about hygiene too much you'll go crazy.
Cause and effect reversed they can be.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:01PM
> I'm a nail-biter.
I was until about age 30. (long ago)
Now I'm just sayin' . . . it is my personal experience, I don't know why these two things are strongly connected in my mind.
I switched to a Southern Baptist church, played piano in early service. After a while I noticed I had stopped biting. Was a lot less stressed out. More calm. I was surprised. But never went back to biting even after eventually moving and going to other churches. (Also I'm a preacher's kid) I don't know why I connect these two things together.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 12 2019, @02:27AM (4 children)
I wouldn't worry about the mints. Your keyboard is a whole lot nastier than anything else you'll ever come in contact with unless you have children or are a plumber.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @01:18PM
Maybe. But I don't put my keyboard into my mouth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @02:48PM (2 children)
For those of us who clean our keyboard once in a while, it is not nasty at all. It only takes a couple minutes to clean, and I'm surprised more people don't do it.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 12 2019, @06:40PM
Yes. Yes, it is. It is in fact worse than your toilet seat. Much worse. Yes, even if you clean it once in a while.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by toddestan on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:08AM
The problem with the keyboard is that it's really hard to properly clean (and have it still work after). Way too many nooks and crevices and inaccessible areas. It's not like a countertop which can wiped down with a strong cleaner easily.
With that said, I'm not too concerned with my keyboard, since it's mostly my germs on it. It's others keyboards and shared workstations that are a bit gross.
I would imaging computer mice would also be just as bad. Especially since so many of them place a seam where the top and bottom parts come together in a location that's pretty much guaranteed to get grime in it. And the less that's said about the mouse wheel the better.