AIBU _buses and other forms of public transport should have hand sanitsier dispensers?

[warmandwooly]

Given all the germs etc going round at Christmas time?

Don't people wear gloves in winter?

I have booked a taxi from town to the hospital... Also in town....

Because buses suck

YABU what on earth for. Do you lick the bus? If you want hand sanitiser, keep some in your bag. Won't help you a jot when the person behind you sneezes of course.

Maybe we should all live in bubbles.

YABU and crazy. I think if you refrain from sticking your fingers in your mouth whilst on the bus, you should be okay....

YABU and I think you know it. What happens when the local alkies find out you can drink the stuff? Before you know it there will be pissed and snotty people on the bus.

Really?! I would never even think of that. Must be exhausting to worry about stuff like that. But may explain why we all have colds :o

Let's put them in all public places too. It's not as though we're short of money or anything.

I was on a bus abroad once (I could go into detail if required) in warm weather so I wasn't wearing much. The man in the seat behind me sneezed. It felt like rain coming over me. Should we wear macs all day and every day?

Cotton Wool Society.

Take your own.

YABU I would rather they spent their limited budgets on making bus services more reliable. You can buy your own hand sanitiser if you want.

Apparently hand sanitisers keep your hands sterile for 90 seconds.

rips So just like normal then

YABU - BUT I always clean my hands after travelling on public transport, especially if I've had to hold on to any rails. I don't want to put my hands where someone else has been holding on shortly after picking their nose etc.

90 seconds is not to be sneezed at.

Sorry meant winter..

yabu it will cost loads and i bet they wouldn't be kept filled up properly anyway, so then would become a waste of tax money having them installed. better just provide your own if you are that bothered

I just wash my hands when I get home/to work after being on public transport. I always have since I read something about the ridiculously large % of the handholds that have traces of faecal matter on them.

There's no need for hand sanitser on public transport. Not unless you are considering carrying out some form of minor surgical procedure on the bus.

FFS? Are you one of the those people that is always ill as you're home is so over-cleaned that your immune system is shot to shit.

Oh my word!!

What is wrong with MN at the moment?

Put a small dispenser in your pocket or bag, available at your local Boots store

Other chemists are available :)

Holds tired head in hands

Just how has the human race come this far without anti bac soap?

eurochick I bet most things in your bathroom, if not your house, have traces of faecal matter on them.

This reminds me of a David Mitchell rant, where he's talking about those adverts for kitchen cleaning products that tell us how many million germs live on our surfaces and chopping boards. He goes on to say that the ads tell us that all these millions of germs exist, and yet we've survived for millennia without these products.

(Not that I'm targeting the many germs that killed us before we had clean water and sewage services, etc)

MsScarlett exactly. I bet the OP doesn't realise that on every surface, in every bed, everywhere, there are millions of tiny bugs and creatures. EVERYWHERE.

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