Nearly half of hospital loo users do not wash hands

[uknick]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl3v73p7zo

Having seen the lack of handwashing on cruise ships where men do a number 2 and then go straight to the help yourself buffet, I'm not surprised by this. But, I am disappointed how nothing seems to have been learnt from the basic sanitary hygiene messages during COVID.

Is it any wonder we sometimes need a nanny state?

[hidetheelephants]

Bring back bathroom attendants, they can shame the filthy bds into washing their hands. It does highlight the difficulty faced by healthcare, medical science is often helpless in the face of the walking petri dish that is a human being even when they do wash their hands.

[PRO5T]

Not sure it makes too much difference when the loos themselves are swimming in pish and smell like a tramps foreskin (I imagine I hasten to add).

The ones at our local hospital are an utter disgrace.

[Monkeylegend]

If that is the case you would think hospitals would be full of people with gastrointestinal infections, food poisoning, respiratory infections, flu, coronavirus etc.

Maybe not washing your hands helps people to build up resistance to such ailments, because those who don't wash hands in public are very likely to not wash them at home either.

I am not recommending not washing hands though