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Recently what we are learning about people’s ignorance of common cleanliness is that it's both uncommon and unnerving.
For decades I’ve been fully aware that gyms are bacteria farms, and thus have taken precautionary measures. One example is when I have an itch on my face, I pull up my Tshirt collar and use the inside of the Tshirt to rub or scratch. I also wash both my water bottle and my hands before leaving the gym. I also cover the bench with a towel and wear workout gloves which, although they do leave fingertips exposed, at least provide cover for most of my hand area. The gloves are then stored in a side pocket of my gym bag away from my water bottle to avoid cross contamination.
For 15 years, from 2004 to the end of 2019, I never suffered the flu, and only had one cold lasting 3 days. I attribute that to washing my hands throughout the day, and keeping my hands away from my face when I was out and about.
But to hear people on a street video react with surprise when told that dirty hands spread bacteria and viruses —as if this were some brand-new, never before heard discovery—really makes you wonder.
The idiot billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who wasted $500 million in his run for the Democratic Presidential nomination, was shown on video, after taking a piece of pizza off a table at a gathering, aggressively licking his fingers—ALL OF THEM, one by one, and then over again, ignoring the napkins right there beside the pizza box—in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic, proving that stupidity combined with lack of table etiquette are not limited just to the poorer classes.
Another study found that upon swabbing the touch screens at hundreds of fast food outlets, that 100% of the screens tested positive for e-coli. 100%! So, nobody washes their hands after taking a shit?
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