To think not everyone washes their hands after every single wee when in their own home?

[heatedroller]

Anything other than a wee, yes of course.

But washing hands after every bloody wee is overkill in my opinion

Has Covid really taught people nothing?

Bacteria, dirt, viruses can and DO kill.

Just because YOU believe you haven't become unwell from your lack of hand washing, you probably will have inadvertently made someone else sick. A child, an elderly person.

How do people actually think sickness bugs spread?

I am in no way over the top about germs. But when people talk about a bit of dirt not harming anyone. This means a bit of dust in your house, kids playing outside freely, re-wearing your jeans or your bra.

It does not mean not washing your dirty skanky hands after using the toilet.

My butler presses the flush and washes my hands for me.

You may have chosen a dirty partner, you may have chosen to raise your son to be dirty, that doesn’t mean other people have.

It wasn't about my sons or husband, it was about the men I work with, who are all someone's son or husband, but never mind. The difference is so marked that at one point I wondered if the female soap was being stolen.

This is why I’ve always used anti bac wipes on trolley handles when I go shopping - waaaaayyyy before Covid.

Oh and urine is only sterile until it leaves the bladder! Travelling out of your body it picks up your microflora - so it is definitely not hygienic to not wash your hands thoroughly.

You wouldn't touch your urethra and then touch your door handles without washing your hands would you!?

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@StanfordPines

And perhaps the reason the soap in the men’s doesn’t need replacing as often is that, as a rule, there are less male staff in schools, not that all men don’t wash their hands.

There are also fewer male toilets and in secondary (which we are) the split is fairly even. Boys/girls is very even.

@Mummadeze

No, I don’t even wash my hands when I go to a toilet in a bar or restaurant sometimes. I have always been like this and I think it is why I rarely get ill. My grandmother used to say ‘a bit of dirt never hurt anyone’.

Truly grim.

I hope COVID has taught you something

'No, I don’t even wash my hands when I go to a toilet in a bar or restaurant sometimes. I have always been like this and I think it is why I rarely get ill. My grandmother used to say ‘a bit of dirt never hurt anyone’.

It isn't a 'bit of dirt', it is bacteria which can of course hurt and even kill.

Handwashing after going to the toilet is just basic good hygiene whether at home or elsewhere. How disappointing the amount of grubby people on here who cba.

There's no coronorvirus in wee 🤣
Since when do colds and flu come from urine?

This is beside the point. It's basic hygiene, if people are not washing their hands enough they will spread all kinds of things.

@Mummadeze

No, I don’t even wash my hands when I go to a toilet in a bar or restaurant sometimes. I have always been like this and I think it is why I rarely get ill. My grandmother used to say ‘a bit of dirt never hurt anyone’.

This is grim!

Of course your home toilet will be cleaner than a public toilet, but it ceases to be clean after the first use when it's been cleaned? Unless you're scrubbing the toilet with bleach after every use (which sounds more laborious than waahi g your hands, after a wee) it's, not clean anymore.

Out of interest is this a lockdown thing or does it pre-date?

Mummadeze

No, I don’t even wash my hands when I go to a toilet in a bar or restaurant sometimes. I have always been like this and I think it is why I rarely get ill. My grandmother used to say ‘a bit of dirt never hurt anyone’.

Look up Typhoid Mary, She never got ill either but spread her disease around generously.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon

With you OP. Not after every wee at home. Public loos yes, other people's houses yes, after a poo yes. If it soaks through the toilet paper then yes. Otherwise, no. Less germs, less risk.

I always wash my hands before preparing food and before eating.

I wash my hands or sanitize after everything, always have and always will.

@CaptainMyCaptain

There's no coronorvirus in wee 🤣 Since when do colds and flu come from urine?

This is beside the point. It's basic hygiene, if people are not washing their hands enough they will spread all kinds of things.

It is when you've taken the quotes out of context. They were in response to posters asserting that you get tiny bits of wee on your hands and this is how Covid spread.

@CaptainMyCaptain

There's no coronorvirus in wee 🤣 Since when do colds and flu come from urine?

This is beside the point. It's basic hygiene, if people are not washing their hands enough they will spread all kinds of things.

What things?

'Oh and urine is only sterile until it leaves the bladder! Travelling out of your body it picks up your microflora - so it is definitely not hygienic to not wash your hands thoroughly.'

Indeed, the amount of folk who think sterile urine equals sterile genitals . If they cba to wash their hands I dread to think of the state of their nether regions.

'This is why I’ve always used anti bac wipes on trolley handles when I go shopping - waaaaayyyy before Covid.'

Yes I'm the same.

OFGS,Typhoid Mary wasn't to do with handwashing.

Of course, everyone should be washing their hands lots, but let's not make stuff up.

You know I never wipe down the trolley before I go to the supermarket . I assume people always wash hands after the loo but after reading this thread I most definitely will be cleaning my trolley from now on . 🤢😷

this is why my kid never asked to play on tablets in Mcds once said not everyone washes their hands.

How’s was School so and so didn’t wash their hands, he even bloody asks me if I washed my hands after been loo. I see potential career in being car park warden!

I'd normally cringe in disgust and say everyone should always wash their hands after a wee, but now that I think about it... I don't think any Happy Birthdayx2's are getting sang when I'm woken up at 3am by a needy bladder

There's no coronorvirus in wee 🤣

Actually, coronavirus has been detected in urine, although there is no evidence that this a significant cause of spread.

However, you are missing the point. If people have a habit of washing their hands regularly when they are near a basin and soap, surface transmission of all viruses and bacteria is reduced.

It is when you've taken the quotes out of context. They were in response to posters asserting that you get tiny bits of wee on your hands and this is how Covid spread.
My point is that it is basic hygiene and nothing to do with Covid anyway. I'm shocked that there are people who didn't wash their hands before they were told to by the government.

Infections you can spread by not washing your hands:
www.initial.co.uk/blog/infections-can-spread-not-washing-hands/#:~:text=Below%20we%20have%20listed%20some%20of%20the%20infections,and%20it%20can%20affect%20people%20of%20all%20ages.

norovirus
airborne respiratory illnesses including the common cold, flu, chicken pox and meningitis
MRSA
E Coli
Hepatitis A

@Mummadeze

No, I don’t even wash my hands when I go to a toilet in a bar or restaurant sometimes. I have always been like this and I think it is why I rarely get ill. My grandmother used to say ‘a bit of dirt never hurt anyone’.

@Mummadeze Well aren't you lucky? What about the people who don't have such a strong constitution and may have touched a surface that you have contaminated? I'm afraid your attitude is a bit selfish.

Do you have the same attitude to Covid? The "I'm not likely to catch it or be very ill with it so I don't need to wash / sanitise my hands before handling things in the supermarket...?" It's basically the same thing, you could be spreading germs to vulnerable people because "I'm alright Jack!"