A quick look at the NHS website, suggests a very simple way to avoid the spread:
Hardly rocket science, but my experience at shows is that only half of those using the gents bother to wash, and at swapmeets the number is even lower.
Do we need to station people at the exits to turn people around and point them back at the sinks? Would those same people then mutter about "health and safety gone mad"?
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And if you turn off the tap manually, or allow your hand to touch the sides of those horrible blade driers, or grab the door handle on the way out, it undoes most of the good you did washing your hands.
Even those who wash rarely do so for the 20 seconds that it takes to really be effective.
You've got a point.
Unfortunately, this point appears to be lost on some of the more "aromatic" visitors to some events.
I'd like to say otherwise - I really would.
Unfortunately, we all live in the real world.
Meanwhile, "out in the sticks" I strongly suspect that a number of British Saddlebacks, Tamworths and Gloucester Old Spots could teach some of these noisome individuals a thing or two about personal hygiene.
Strange that - especially since it often seems to be our suilline friends who routinely get an unwarranted bad press in this department.
So, Anonymous, you are saying we might as well not bother washing our hands?
Just out of interest, can you post a source for "And if you turn off the tap manually, or allow your hand to touch the sides of those horrible blade driers, or grab the door handle on the way out, it undoes most of the good you did washing your hands.". It sounds like hearsay from those who don't like washing to me.
Absolutely not. I wash my hands rigorously but am appalled at the slipshod splash & dash that seem to do for most people if they bother at all.
The answer to the other issues is use paper towels to dry your hands & always open toilet doors with a tissue. Basic common sense really.
Air blade:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dyson-hand-dryer-spreads-1300-times-more-germs-than-paper-towels-zvg7cq3n8
Door handles - one of many & actively promoted on cruise lines:
http://hygienesolutions.com/blog/2016/02/05/why-you-should-be-concerned-about-touching-any-washroom-door-handle/
Taps etc whole document but see page 6:
file:///C:/Users/eaves/AppData/Local/Temp/hygiene%20and%20infection%20control%20advice%20in%20the%20home.pdf
I'm not sure that's quite what "Anonymous" is saying - even if it looks that way.
Certainly, I've come across a number of really filthy (or otherwise extremely unpleasant) taps, hand driers and door handles at public toilets over the years.
Likewise, I'm very reluctant to touch outside door handles on trains, in view of some of the "goodies" that have been known to get blown up onto the sides of trains.
In view of the additional comment about washing "for the 20 seconds that it takes to really be effective", I'd be very surprised indeed if he's actually advocating not washing / cleaning hands. Rather, it sounds to me like he's suggesting that people take reasonable steps to ensure that their hand washing is effective.
As for me, I try to keep a hand sanitizer - and a pack of wipes - somewhere accessible, when I'm out of the house for any length of time. If I think there's any likelihood of me needing the things, I also try to have them ready (without the need to pull my backpack apart).
Some railway modellers have taken 'weathering' to a whole new level.
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