[...] 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: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:08PM (13 children)
There are well-known solutions to this: copper/brass touch surfaces, air-filtering UVC fixtures (shielded of course!), good ol' bleach, and the list goes on. But infection prevention doesn't make people gobs and gobs of money like boner pills or statins or anything else they can force people onto for half a lifetime, so it's mostly not addressed except by the real front-line troopers, the nurses and CNAs and low-level doctors.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:23PM (10 children)
On the subject of boner pills . . .
I am not aware of anyone being forced to take boner pills for half a lifetime. Whether or not you need them, they are great. Don't knock them until you try them. Such a horrible drug to have to take in order to do extra . . . nevermind. Especially if your Dr. will write a script and insurance will pay. Now they're even generic. Your Dr. has samples to offer. Just ask and you will receive.
I have to feel sorry for half the population that cannot take them.
I avoid taking narcotic pain killers, but not boner pills.
How did people enjoy getting older in times past.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:36PM (6 children)
Pretty sure a boner pill would do me no good at all due to anatomical concerns...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Snow on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:40PM
I don't have a vagina, but benefit from birth control...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:43PM (4 children)
I had considered that even as I wrote it. Your sig gives it away.
Years ago, I heard that if a female takes them it similarly affects the structure (clitoris) which would develop into a penis during gestation. Whether or not that effect would be desirable I cannot know. But asking your doctor probably wouldn't work.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday April 11 2019, @05:09PM (3 children)
My understanding is that it's not at all helpful for women. Even for men, having an erection doesn't significantly impact either pleasure or psychological arousal, it just increases the range of activities that can be engaged in (which can admittedly have an indirect effect). Take one before watching a ball game or taking a math test, and you're just more prone to discomfort.
For men though that's typically enough - we rarely have trouble getting in the mood, it's just the physical response that some men have trouble with. (and of course the drugs can also be used to achieve superhuman stamina)
For women, the physical response is far more complicated, and while there have been some drugs developed that help with that aspect, for most women having difficulties the real problem is in not being able to get in the mood in the first place. Which sadly has thus far been far more resistant to pharmaceutical manipulation.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday April 11 2019, @05:43PM (2 children)
I can only speak about Cialis (generic: tadalafil). The physical response must already be working. It can only improve things. From what I am told (but do not have first hand knowledge) viagra kind of forces the issue, and only for four hours. Cialis works for almost 36 hours. So you can take it Friday evening and it's still good Sunday morning. It does not force the physical response to happen. Stimulation is still necessary. And the physical response must already be working for the drug to help. But help it does. Both in frequency and um ... responsiveness.
So if I were to ever develop an interest in watching organized sports events, I would not have any uncomfortable distractions. I am unlikely to ever take any more math tests -- but it would be kind of fun now compared to four decades ago taking a math test. But I wouldn't be hindered by any uncomfortable distractions simply due to the drug. It would require some physical or psychological stimulus.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:32PM (1 child)
Indeed, I've heard good things about "weekenders". But throw in some attractive students or cheerleaders putting themselves on display, and you have to admit the potential for discomfort is at least enhanced.
My main point though is that sexual disfunction in women is sadly a far less easily tractable problem than for most men.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:42PM
Yes. And sadly it is not the only thing where women are at an unfortunate and unfair disadvantage. There are maybe some advantages, like not having a biological urge that powerfully invades your conscious thoughts in a driving way.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:39PM (1 child)
Further, they are frequently not covered by insurance so you often have to pay fully out of pocket.
Remember the outcry about birth control being covered by insurance? Where is the equality?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:50PM
It is probably a choice made by my employer. But I can assure that boner pills are in fact mostly paid for by insurance. The out of pocket cost is somewhat higher than other drugs, but not terrible. (Ironically, narcotic pain killers $5 / 30. Something seems wrong here?)
I had heard about an outcry that boner pills are paid by insurance but birth control is not. And THAT is very wrong. That probably fits with some people's religious views. Pay for men's boner pills, but don't allow abortions, and don't pay for birth control. Women should stay at home and pop out babies. Because we so desperatly need more. /s
A more sensible abortion law would be to allow abortions until the fetus is 18 AND can pass the SAT.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:09PM
They didn't. They died.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @05:59PM
don't forget the house keeping & janitorial staff, too.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Friday April 12 2019, @03:17AM
Nobody forces me to take a statin drug -- I take one because I unfortunately inherited genetic/familial hypercholesterolemia [wikipedia.org], and would rather not follow past generations of my mother's family who either died young before the right statin drugs existed or needed multiple-bypass surgery after starting the right drug in middle age. (Or in my grandmother's case, dying at age 39 during experimental bypass surgery.)