‘We may have to rethink the toilet seat altogether’: How the coronavirus could change bathrooms for the better

Fast Company ^ | 11 May 2020 | LARA SOROKANICH

[DUMBGRUNT]

Consider that the vast majority of commercial bathrooms in the U.S. don’t even include lids on toilets—meaning that every time someone flushes, a “toilet plume” of droplets explodes into the air, coating the surrounding stall (and the person standing in it) and aerosolizing the bowl’s contents, which can be breathed in and ingested by nearby parties (gross)

We also know that COVID-19 has been found in human poop, up to 33 days after infected people have recovered and tested negative for the virus. No amount of handwashing will remove a virus sprayed all over your body.

“a huge uptick in requests for touchless technologies,” particularly from schools hoping to improve bathrooms before potentially reopening this fall

“People don’t even want to touch a manual flush valve; they kick-flush using their foot,”

a disastrous experiment by the city of Seattle to install self-cleaning public bathrooms—which sprayed disinfectant and power-washed floors after every use (but ended up trapping and hosing down homeless people)

[DUMBGRUNT]

Plumbers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but the open floorplan...

[ifinnegan]

New idea from liberals.

Squat toilets only.

[AFB-XYZ]

I was going to say “You’ve gotta be $ch!tting me!” . . . .

[1Old Pro]

Plumbers of the world unite!

Essential workers, and now that colleges are going out of business perhaps trade schools will provide more valuable essential plumbers.

[US_MilitaryRules]

It’s Shiffing!

[Texas Eagle]

I knew it. Masks are just the beginning.

[duckman]

How about a Purell spraying bidet?

[Mr. Rabbit]

I guess we’re all going to have to learn to use the three shells...

[Magnum44]

Lets just outlaw going to the bathroom...

[absalom01]

This is a thing, was actually on a call with a developer about this.

The push is on for “touchless” functionality, and a lid that closes before the WC flushes itself.

I’m all for it.

[CJ Wolf]

(but ended up trapping and hosing down homeless people)

Sounds like a win win.

[blueunicorn6]

I would hate to see those toilet plums shooting around a public bathroom.

[Steve_Seattle]

How many people lower the toilet seat lid before flushing? One in 5,000? Yet I’m not aware of flushing-without-lowering ever being associated with the spread of disease. I’d go into more detail about the idiocy of this woman’s idea, but the rules of TMI prevent me from doing so.

[a fool in paradise]

You’ll have to wear diapers and restrooms will be roped off.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Water saver toilets are the worst. Bring back the multi gallon flush and you’ll reduce “the plume of death”

[DannyTN]

I may never go to the bathroom again.

[Leep]

[PIF]

and so the Squatter was born ...

[Cicero]

Poop in the bushes?

[DallasBiff]

Squat toilets only.

And where do they use squat toilets? CHINA where this virus came from.