Wouldn’t be sanity for us if people wash fecal matter off their hands in the drinking fountains. They would have to touch the drinking fountains to activate water flow and so the lever they touch is contaminated. Then the bowl of the fountain is dirty because they didn’t use hot water and soap. Hot water and soap is needed to kill viruses etc - rinsing off in cool water wouldn’t help.
Strap a pack of sanitary handi-wipes to the side of the drinking fountain and it’d all be good. The hard part is getting them to use them.
It’s amazing how many people don’t wash hands! Even people who keep clean homes can be very poor hand washers. They might have a seippy noae and use their have to catch the drip, then dail to wash their hands. People fail to wash hands after using a Kleenex during a cold. Men fail to wash hands after peeing while women will wash only the palms of their hands.
Who washes hands after handling money? I washed a woman stocking shelves at a grocery store who coughed, covered her mouth with her hands, then wiped the boogered up hand on her pants, grabbed more boxes of pasta and put them on the shelves.
I see women all the time change dirty diapers, ang fail to wash their hands. I’ve had family attempt to change poopie diapers on my couch, and after smearing the poopie butt with the edge of the diaper, set the still stinky butt on the couch as they reach for another diaper. And not wash hands after. I don’t allow people to change diapers in my house except doe in the bathroom where it belongs.
These filthy habits are the sole fault of whomever the primary caretakers of the child. Cleanliness is a habit brought on by good training from infancy. Children live what they learn.
In my city, the majority of the homeless are able bodies men. A few are elderly, a few obviously mentally challenged, a few are obviously injured and disabled. I see a lot of homeless people and that majority of men are drugged on one substance or another. Most of the time it’s crack, meth, or alcohol with a few other substances in between.
Cleanliness? Not even in the summertime when the river is warm, and toiletries are free at the food banks.