[...] 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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:22PM
Aye, that and plenty of BS modern cleaning solutions and practices.
Back in the good old days, hospitals only had carbolic soap [wikipedia.org] in the toilets, used to wash the ward surfaces with proper strong bleaches and pine disinfectants, and the public areas washed with Jeyes Fluid [wikipedia.org].
Hospitals used to smell 'clean', people who visited someone in hospital came back smelling of the various bleaches, disinfectants etc they'd encountered there, now (well, at least two years ago when I had a brief stay¹ in the local one²) it's the fucking hospital that stinks of the visitors after visiting hours...go figure.
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¹ For the record, I did pick up a wound infection at the hospital after minor(ish) surgery, as the hospital apparently wasn't bothered, I fucking killed it myself with fire (well, Betadine, 99.9% Isopropanol, a mild bleach solution and a strict wound management regime..)
² A 'modern' 1970's monstrosity which replaced a rather nice airy, clean Victorian one which I had the (mis)fortune to have spent a week in back in the early 70's for some major surgery, and had to visit on multiple other occasions back then with broken limbs (skateboards...fun times...)