The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #148803   Message #4166165
Posted By: Steve Shaw
26-Feb-23 - 06:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
I suppose there's not much point socially distancing simply to avoid colds, though it's a bonus if it avoids covid. Most people round here don't bother any more. I never touch a supermarket trolley handle that I haven't disinfected first and I guess I'll be doing that forever. But I can't sanitise every one of upwards of maybe fifty items that I pick up from the shelves. I never touch my face or rub my eyes until I get back to the hand sanitiser in my car (I suppose I could put the sanitiser in my pocket...). Some supermarkets have quietly ceased to provide sanitiser at the entrance. On the whole, I think that's a backward step. Before the pandemic, the main concern was poo traces on trolley handles. One survey I recall found over 50% of handles thus contaminated.

Almost all gents' toilets here have a door handle that you have to pull in order to leave, and that has to come after you've washed your hands. Not good. Strong pinkie needed, and a pull on the handle at its top...