Should there be TV adverts showing....

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appropriate hygiene and manners?

Whenever I use a public toilet, I see other people not even washing their hands. Then there are others who make an attempt to wash hands but it's usually dipping hands under a tap for a few seconds and maybe soap might be used or not. It's gross.

At the start of the pandemic I started a new habit of coughing and sneezing into my elbow. I Bury my face into the I side of my elbow and cough and sneeze into my elbow. It makes sense in that hopefully if there's any infectious fluids, it's not being expelled outwards into a room where others will use it.

I see many people with poor manners. Coughing into the open. Or coughing into a closed fist. The issue with that is that when they get up and use things, like moving a chair or opening doors, etc, they are potentially leaving germs on a lot of shared surfaces.

I was sitting in a coffee shop the other day and there were three people with coughs and there wasn't one of them that covered their coughs. It was all done into the coffee shop.

It's so disheartening seeing people with poor manners and hygiene. I think hygiene and appropriate manners going forward would go a long way in protecting other people against serious sickness and harm. It's not just in relation to covid. There's other illnesses too.

I had covid last week and I managed not to pass it onto other people. Even in the days before I found a positive I wasn't 100%but I wasn't coughing and sneezing into the open of shared rooms.

My question is, should there be TV adverts showing people appropriate hygiene and manners?

Of course not. If adults aren't doing those things already then an advert isn't going to make them start and children should be being taught that stuff by their parents.

How do you know you didn’t pass it to anyone?

My close contacts are low - boyfriend, mother, a small number of people in work - none of them got symptoms or became sick. Then when I found a positive on two tests, I isolated in my room. I still didn't pass it on.

who watches tv adverts?

There’s been adverts and the whole 20 den one washing campaign. People in general are lazy, a lot don’t care about hygiene or manners.

You should meet my sister in law, she eats with her mouth wide open and food actually falls out. Enormous chomping, sometimes there’s food in the corner of her mouth and she doesn’t notice. She’ll serve up dinner with her hands, no fear.

No

Exactly.
I don't watch live TV. These nanny state adds would never reach me.

Should there be courses similar to manual handling courses for employers to send employees on, on hygiene and manners?

People working in healthcare already get sent on courses about hand hygiene.

Its a start for sure but not everyone works in healthcare. It misses a lot of the population. I think something has to happen to encourage appropriate hygiene and manners.

People are disgusting. TV adverts won't change anything.

You can't be serious? How much more of a nanny state do people actually want to live in?

I don't think adverts would really do much, but I think it would be fair enough to show characters in shows doing these sorts of 'best practice' things as just normal things to do if there's a situation in a show that needs it. Like if there's two characters having a conversation in a public toilet whilst out, they could be having that conversation whilst washing their hands properly, rather than while they're fixing their hair in the mirrors etc

No - the government has wasted enough money on pointless tv/radio/posters over the past couple of years.

Parenting- that's where manners and hygiene comes from not some course or tv advert. Nobody watches tv advertising anyway.

Bear in mind this is also a cultural issue. In other countries, people have always washed their hands a lot more than here and wouldn't use outdoor shoes in the house for example. This is from personal observations. Made no difference to Covid infection rates in those countries.

When people reach adulthood there's no more parental guidance for them. Somewhere along the way many parents have failed to instill some basic manners and hygiene into people. I think the government or public health should be picking up the slack and creating an awareness campaign to teach people to cover their coughs. I was in the supermarket this morning and there were a few people jousting in the direction of other people and on top of food stuff.

It's wrong and it's not ok. It's disgusting.

"Jousting on top of food stuff"

😂 Yeah ok, op.

That was some sort of an auto correct thing on the phone.
It's supposed to read - coughing.

Coughing over food in the shop

Is that a joke?

Imagine being a fully grown adult and getting an instruction manual from your employer about how to have manners. Jesus Fucking Christ.

"Coughs and sneezes spread diseases" has been a thing for decades. As has "Catch it, bin it, kill it" (Google says that particular campaign is 15 years old).

People know what to do. For whatever reason, they just don't.