Posted on 05/13/2020 11:01:35 AM PDT by 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)
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Great GIF - thanks for the laugh!
I knew it. Masks are just the beginning.
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Just the ‘latest’.
Remember the intro of auto seatbelts, we will NEVER make them mandatory etc etc etc
Go back a tad further...
Remember the days of the smoking section in a airplane was a sign that was moved back and forth dependent on how many seats needed etc?
Or smoking on buses?
Then a designated area
NOW you can’t smoke in a 100,000 seat OPEN AIR stadium or some entire hotels etc etc etc
Whether good bad or indifferent, the ‘lack of freedom’ isn’t that one is restricted from smoking, one can’t even open a bar/restaurant that caters to smoking, can’t run a bus/airline for SMOKERS only.
YET, ‘they’ still allow one to smoke...guess it is not all that bad if it can be taxed....
Like the speed/red light cameras, put up for ‘YOUR’ safety ONLY.
The bottom falls out when the Schiff hits the fan and people quit buying cigarettes/cigars, stopping for red lights and not speeding and the REVENUE is cut off.
FOLLOW THE MONEY.
There’s a Japanese company, Toto, that markets a self-cleaning, automated WC that even features an ozone generator that they claim kills any E. Coli floating around post-poop.
I don’t know about that, but it’s 100% effective in terms of odor.
This for sure is coming to commercial construction in the US this year.
Other things that we’ll see: private stalls in toilet rooms, hand sanitizer stations in all public areas, automatic ‘no touch’ doors, enhanced destination dispatch of elevators...UV - C lights in high volume spaces, the list goes on.
Guilty.
Just schiff on the sidewalk with the bums. No flush, no plume.
A person is NOT 'recovered' if they're testing positive in ANY area of their body.
Virus free MEANS virus free. It doesn't mean 'not on the big toe but in the eyes'... it mean NO VIRUS ANYWHERE...
Or clivus multrums. NYS got the bright idea of putting those in a welcome station on Route 81, entering from PA.
No aerosoles, but the stink can get pretty bad.
more valuable essential plumbers.
I have some kin that happen to be Physicians and a Plumber son in law.
The Plumber served a five year low paid (free) apprenticeship and starts making some money. The Doc, college$, med school$, intern, fellowship$?... and perhaps buy into a practice?
For the first 10? years a go-getter big city plumber can rake it in. And more as long as his back holds out.
When the Physician completes paying for school and his equipment he starts moving ahead finically.
Now along comes Wu-flu, the anesthesiologist has been told her position is on the line, has a temp offer in NYC.
And the older country Doctor lived comfortably, but not megabucks.
a lid that closes before the WC flushes itself.
Sounds like a make-work plan for service plumbers?
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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.
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In my day, VD were the only diseases caught
from a toilet seat.
No ulterior motive here is there??
Clearly a bunch of plumbers attempting to gin up some work.
Just schiff on the sidewalk with the bums. No flush, no plume.
And when the city crew gets around to cleaning with the high-pressure washer???
That schiff will be all over.
Now for the reason for the "all" tag...
I wonder if we'll ever see a study that shows how many of those that got sick were on the "latest and greatest" drugs that all seem to suppress the immune system so one can have clearer skin while being in danger of 37 potentially fatal side effects...
VD were the only diseases caught
from a toilet seat.
I have heard that it was very uncomfortable and required some acrobatics?
Sealing suction toilets that leave a butt hickey
A long list of very sad, fatal and near-fatal swimming suction drains.
The attorneys are preparing the case as we speak for the new and improved toilets, and the old ones too!
Now you sound like the women in my life who ‘suggest’ I sit down for my business! But seriously, the flush part ‘aerosolizes’ the stuff in the water, sending it far and wide. So, I close the lid, unless I forget.
There’s a side benefit - the Dems who use them will all lose their minds....
I have experience with these in Asia. You need a Norden bomb sight to use them!
I used to specify flush valves with a tall tailpiece to limit the ability of people to do this. You have to be limber to manage it when the flush valve is up towards chest height!
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