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Your Hotel Room Isn't the Only Thing That's Filthy {Gadling}
Mar 26th 2007 1:33AM E. Coli and Enterococci come from one main source. Feces. Poop. sh*t. The fact that it's been found on handrails, armrests, shopping cart handles and so forth indicates that people simply do not adequately clean themselves after defecation. Come on folks, it's either that, or we have mysterious invisible people running around flinging feces, right?
Simply put, most people do not clean themselves adequately. Certainly there are those with skin condiations that need to avoid the old soap and water and use anitbacterial products/lotions instead. But that's not MOST people. Most people, simply leave the bathroom stall and do not wash afterwards. Most do not use soap. Many don't even bother with water. There is simply no excuse for that, unless you are that rare individual with a skin condition. Bottom line, there is no excuse for failing to clean up yourself after goin gto the toilet.
But let's be very frank: if you have fecal contaminants on your hands after using the toilet, you have poop on your hands. If you don't wash with soap and water very carefully, you still have poop on your hands. Even if you can't really see it.
If you use a lotion or antibacterial product, you simply have 2 things now on your hands: poop and antibacterial lotion. Until you use soap and water diligently to wash it away, it's still on you. And you and going to get it on me, or on something I'll be touching later.
Most people can be easily observed in public places ,using the toilet and then simply leaving: most of them don't use soap and many don't even use water.
Certainly heavy use of antibacterial products could help create super-bugs. No one really argues against that point. But what we are all missing is that MOST people out there DO NOT wash themselves after using the toilet.
That's why there's so much of the contamination mentioned at the start of this thread. There's poop on their hands. That's where the E. coli comes from. That's the same people who shake your hand in a meeting. The same people using the shopping cart before you do. The same people pushing the elevator button, or holding the handrail before you do.
Just pay attention the next time you are in a public restroom. Most of the people out there ARE SIMPLY NOT cleaning themselves properly, or at all.
It's disgusting. It's rude. It's unsanitary. It's unsafe. And clearly the same unsafe and unclean behaviors are being instilled in the next generation and might explain why the daycare centers and playgrounds are even more dirty still.
Honestly, with all the flying that I do, I worry far less about terrorists than I do about daily exposure to the bacteria and poop on the hands of the unwashed masses that can't even bother to turn on a sink and get a squirt of soap, and then put those same hands all over all the things in public that I have to touch. I'm far more likely to get sick and die from E Coli from some lazy unwashed traveler that I am to get blown up by a terrorist.
Your Hotel Room Isn't the Only Thing That's Filthy {Gadling}
Mar 24th 2007 9:22PM Just pay attention the next time you are in a toilet. Just listen to the ratio of toilet flushes to sink and soap usage. I travel constantly on business and have noticed that in most US airports, the ratio is right around 8 toilet flushes to every 1 sink and soap use.
THAT is Disgusting.
