Just read that people are now stealing hand gels from hospitals. Wtf is wrong with people?

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I despair.

This belongs in AIBU but it will only get moved if I post it there.

I went to Aldi last week and the checkout attendant said that they had been provided with a large sanitizer each but that 7/10 had been nicked within 24hrs. Some people are just scummy.

People nicking Hospital supplies has been happening every day, forever. It definitely takes a certain type of shitbag to do it in times of crisis though.

It’s crazy. The chemist I went in today had two big ones on their counter for people to use and it did cross my mind that someone desperate enough might just grab one and leg it!

My friend runs a chip shop. She said that for the last year they had a box of 12 new ones in their cleaning cupboard, each staff has one in their apron that they use but this box of 12 new ones has been unopened for ages.

Someone nicked it last night.

Just our thick, it's actually making the disease transmission more likely! Especially to vulnerable people and health care workers. It must be to sell online for cash rather than personal use. SAD.

Do these thick people not realise it doesn’t kill viruses only bacteria

I think you probably had an unduly high opinion of the human race to start with.

Does smeghead realise that that's nonsense and, so long as it contains 70% alcohol or above they really do work. The alcohol breaks down the virus and this fact is widely available to read for themselves if they should care to look.

Cue another fucking argument over alcohol content in handgels.

Of course they are, it’s human nature and people are either scared or scumbags who are selling it on. I don’t begrudge the former group tbh.

Doesn't surprise me at all. Every maternity unit I have worked on has had dopplers and electric thermometers nicked.

@Saucery would you begrudge them if a relative died in hospital then from a lack of sanitisation equipment resulting in an MRSA infection?

The stuff in the hospital used to be nicked by alcoholics round here.

Makes a change I suppose?

Superdrug had plenty in today, they were limiting to two each.

CheekyMango, that wouldn’t happen. It will either be replaced or put in fixed dispensers you can’t steal. In fact, from my time on NICU and many children’s ward admissions that’s how it was provided - fixed firmly to the wall.
Infection Control staff actually disapprove of bottles in toilets, because there is already soap and water provided. No one should be using it in place of that.

@Saucery it may well get replaced but what if it doesn't? The more I read, and I know it's hype, the more I think the worst is to come. MERS had a mortality rate of 30% according to the DoH recently released strategy, and MERS is a coronavirus. I'm hoping it's not not the same with the current CV.

They're both Coronaviruses but MERS was much less transmissible (only managed to infect a couple of thousand people world wide). However, it had a 35% fatality rate pretty much across the age range, I presume that's why the Chinese initial response to covid19 with lockdown etc was so fierce. The pattern with MERS was very different from what we're seeing so far with covid19, so hopefully the case fatality rate won't increase as the episode progresses.

People will likely be decanting the gel in hospitals into their own bottles if it's fixed to the wall, it doesn't stop people or mean they're going to rip it off and pop it in their handbag. People have been doing this at the doctors over the past week.

Same in laboratories, we have handgel at work and it has all suddenly gone missing from our stores cupboard...

Fecking CFs