Felt sick over customers wearing disposable gloves when shopping

How is that different from no gloves though?

I know exactly what you mean! I worked for a card shop chain a few years back and during Covid we used to have (old) people coming in in their manky gloves, refusing to use hand gel at the door. The gloves were often black from going from one shop to another🤢. Disgusting.

are those who are worried about flu getting the vaccine?
are you usually so worried about flu that you would wear a mask?

You'd be surprised at how many places I've had to tell customers is an unacceptable place to keep their money and why I won't touch it. People are gross 🤢

Idk I only wash my hand before eating, cooking or after using the loo generally. I don't wash my hands before shopping. I studied microbiology as part of my degree. The more you understand something the less you fear it.

Fun fact. I never clean my steering wheel but drive my decade old car daily. It will have more germs on it then my loo seat. I don't wash my hands after getting out the car and grabbing a trolly.

I found all the misunderstanding about gloves and mask in covid fascinating but people find comfort in things they feel they do have power to control. I also can't judge them if it brings them some comfort. Unless they are using them to clean the public loos and muck out its possibly not much worse than the many people who walk out public loos without washing hands. Now that's worrying as it only takes one tiny bit of poop on your hands when you flush with norm to make that next person poop themselves inside out. Yum!

I’ve been wearing a mask today and I fully intend to tomorrow. Because I had to take my aunt to hospital with a really bad case of flu. She’s tachycardic and in at least overnight. I’ve absolutely been exposed now but I don’t need to hospitalise anyone else, and I know I work with some people who might be vulnerable.

There’s some nasty stuff going around this year.

What a colossal overreaction.

I often see supermarket workers wearing gloves at the till.

Who do you think they are protecting?

There is an internal and external surface to gloves. In comparing gloves to hands you'll be looking at the external surface. You're right that this will have touched as many things as the bare hands, but the one thing it probably hasn't touched much is their own bare hands. So, it's reasonable to consider that they are marginally less contaminated than the equivalent bare hands.

Then you want to compare them to freshly washed hands. Which is strange because you don't want to compare new gloves to the washed hands, just the much-used gloves. So I really don't know what that's all about.

And lastly, you're not considering the internal surfaces of the gloves. That's in contact with their hands and is a barrier to their hands.

Let's say they have a cut on their hand. Without gloves that cut could be infected by everything they encounter in your shop, with gloves it won't.

Or let's say they have a nasty skin condition. Without gloves they could pass that on. With gloves they probably wont.

Does that make you hate them any less???

Gloves are less hygienic than regularly washing your hands but I wouldn’t think most people are washing their hands between shops, are they? I touch my face, money, cards etc with my bare hands and can go hours without washing them if out shopping. I agree gloves aren’t hygienic but not sure bare hands is hygienic for most people either when at the shops as it’s not like the average town has sinks placed in between shops. Unless you find a public toilet to use you probably aren’t washing your hands at the shops.

I dont understand why its an issue, unless these latex gloved characters are forcing you to lick their hands 🤣🤣

DH works with some dodgy stuff and has to wear gloves. He always says there’s a particular technique to removing them so you don’t contaminate yourself with what you’ve touched.
I suspect wearing these is a total waste of time, if people are removing them with their mouths they are probably picking up more germs than not wearing them.

I have NEVER seen anyone in public wearing disposable gloves!

Or the reason they are wearing gloves. It could be fear of germs, but could be they have sensitive skin, allergies, or are wearing gloves to try and prevent skin picking.

How don’t know they’re not washing their hands?

DD used to lick them - frankly small children are revolting!

If they are scared then they shouldn’t be rewearing gloves and certainly not removing them with their teeth!

I wear a disposable glove to shop sometimes. My skin reacts to both cold and the hand soap my work uses. This causes them to dry out and then crack and bleed in many tiny cuts over my fingers and the sides of my palms. Far too many for me to plaster and more appear as I move my hands and new bits split.

Currently, I keep my weeping, bleeding hand in a plastic glove to keep the thick hand cream layer on my hand and the blood off everything I touch. I hadn't realised it was such an outrageous move to be honest.

Yep - I have autoimmune lung disease so the masks have come out. I really do not want to be catching this nasty strain of flu if I can help it!

Why you didn’t say something then if you’re that bothered 😶

Shopping trollies really are absolutely filthy-rodents, foxes, old food...I can't get wound up over kids shoes when I've seen rats scurrying over them at night. They don't get washed. I don't put anything unwrapped on the trolley surface.

The current flu variant is highly mutated, the vaccine won't protect quite as welll as usual because it's mutated so much sence vaccine production began for this year. Consquently many elderly, immuno-compromised people & their carers/ close contacts are going back to masking this winter.
If you're eligible, get your flu jab ASAP, it will provide mitigation which is important when an aggressive strain is circulating.

when I'm wearing medical gloves, for whatever reason, I wash them by washing my hands while wearing them. I use them until they tear before throwing away.

I don't know why people need to make snide remarks about other people wearing gloves or masks. You do you. 🤷‍♀️
I still see people masking up. I was just at Costco and I saw a handful of shoppers in masks and two cashiers. I assumed they were either ill or were making efforts to avoid illness. It is cold/flu/Covid season and Covid started up again late August. What is bloody wrong with taking precautions and being considerate? 🤦‍♀️

YABU just assume everyone has dirty hands. Whether they wear gloves or not does not matter. They are still touching all the same stuff.

Shopping trolleys are really filthy anyway and surely you wash/peel anything you put in there that is not in packaging.