Ranting hand gel

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AIBU to really want to shoot the CFS in this world who would dare steal hand gel from the end of hospital beds. The nurses I know are now taking away all the removable gels and locking them up. I want to know what I suitable punishment would be

Oh good grief, last two posters, do you take everything so literally?!
I voted YANBU but just for clarity I don't advocate actual shooting people for pinching hand gel.
People who do pinch it from hospitals are utter knobheads though and deserve shit happening.

Cross posted, not you Blubell

YANBU. I bet they're the same folk who blithely ignore hand sanitiser in hospitals under normal circumstances.

Selfish fucking bastards like! You can’t believe how low some people will stoop.

No worries Willis

I wouldn't want to steal a hand gel from a hospital, what if someone with CV has already touched it ... but then again with a little luck maybe the thieves would catch it

Do these thick people not realise that nurse and doctors need to sanitise their hands even more than they do?
If people were sensible (i.e brought maybe ONE extra of toilet roll and hand gel), there would be enough for everybody and more people would be safe.
It fucking stinks of the general entitled attitude of some of the British public. "I've got mine, fuck you".
Imagine if there are food shortages... we'll be fucked while people panic buy and horde things that will go out of date.

YANBU A friend works in our local hospital and visitors on the Cancer Ward have stolen 18 bottles of hand sanitizer from the ends of beds. It's bloody disgusting they're visiting their extremely sick relatives and they do that!!! The world is a sad place. I've also seen that parents are wanting those with babies to only be allowed to buy baby wipes and nobody else and some people have actually been stopped and asked!
I have a not very nice health condition and can only use baby wipes why shouldn't others like me or those with stomas be stopped from buying something they need just as much as a parent with babies.

Astrid09, it's almost as if you can't clean a baby with anything else, isn't it? They need to get a grip. Baby wipes haven't existed for long, people coped. Non-parents are perfectly entitled to buy them as well if they need them!

The cancer centre I attend has had a lots of thefts.The chemotherapy day unit I have treatment on had 6 out of the 7 bottles of hand sanitiser taken from it. Outpatients also had a hand sanitiser station on a table as you walked in. That's now gone and they have volunteers to direct people to fixed hand sanitiser dispensers on the wall as soon as they walk in. I've overheard staff saying there's a huge backlog in deliveries and the hospital is running short.

I went into a supermarket yesterday and hand wash had totally sold out. People are dicks.

My friends daughter works on a cardio ward in a major hospital, lots of very vulnerable transplant patients and they have had to lock up the gel and face masks as they've had hundreds stolen, I totally despair at what society has become, it makes me want to cry that most people are absolute cunts.

Re handwash - soap is a better alternative, just good old fashioned bars of soap. There were plenty on the local Tesco shelves yesterday.

Have people forgotten how to use a bar of soap? Really?

These thefts must be down to staff or visitors , which is deplorable.
Time to close hospitals and care homes to
visitors.

It's not what you wash your hands with that matters you can use bubble bath, washing up liquid shampoo, it's how you wash and rinse them that removes bacteria and virus..... wash thoroughly and rinse thorough under running water.

I agree rosie39forever, but people seem to forget that bars of soap were around long before liquid handwash.

The soap breaks down the fatty outside layer of the virus & destroys it. It's not just a case of washing it down the drain.

Wow, that's next level selfishness.
Am I the only person who just washes their hands a lot and has never used hand sanitiser because I hate it?

I knew I was right

www.msn.com/en-gb/health/coronavirus/the-science-of-soap-–-heres-how-it-kills-the-coronavirus/ar-BB118S62

Nothing new; I witnessed it happening on the maternity ward when I was having DS eight years ago. The expectant mum decanted it into another bottle, and her mum did the same. Didn’t say anything as I had other things on my plate, being in labour and all.

We had a cupboard in the loos at work that last week was rammed full of toilet rolls. Call me a suspicious old cynic, but I went to the office and suggested they removed it and stored it somewhere else.
They have done so.

Our local hospital removed the alcohol rub a couple of years back as people were stealing it to drink.
It was replaced with single squirt dispensers.