What's so special about that big flat screen? As opposed to, say, a door handle or a push-plate or a staircase hand-rail?
they’re gross too but if I have to get into a building it is what it is. I don’t have to use these things.
Technically...you can use other parts of a push door other than the plate...some door handles(the lever types)...can be opened by the side of your hand...and you don’t have to grasp the handrail(unless you have balance issues or strength issues)....suggest using the 2nd joint of a curled finger to punch in your selections....or a stylus...
GERMOPHOBES UNITE!
Heh, I had a patient once who was a bit off, and she became so unhinged at my putting a clean, laundered sheet on an exam table, demanding a new, unused one that had never been washed, that she refused to let me treat her and demanded to see my boss.
I had the patient sit in a chair while I went to get my boss, and when she came in to talk to the patient, the woman demanded a new sheet for the table (not a laundered one) because “someone lay on those laundered sheets before her”.
My boss, who was quite good, looked thoughtfully at the sitting woman, and said “Well, someone sat in that chair you are sitting in before you sat in it...”
At which the woman leaped from the chair like a scalded cat!
I audibly choked trying to keep from laughing!
Point is, people get a little crazy about this. The cleanliness of your own hands, and what you do with them in a clean/unclean situation, is your own responsibility. If we get some super bug that wipes people out, lemme tell you...it’s gonna get you, touch screen or not!
Sit in one of these places that has travelers coming and going. Notice their first stop. It ain't the kiosk. Its the head. Watch as junior pulls his finger from his nose and pleads to mommy, let me touch mommy let me touch! Enjoy your lunch, mixed with juniors leavings. The bigger point, juniors leavings will be the least of your concerns.