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‘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

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)

(Excerpt) Read more at fastcompany.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2020election; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; fastcompany; larasorokanich; mediawingofthednc; nitwit; partisanmediashills; plumbing; presstitutes; smearmachine
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Plumbers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but the open floorplan...
1 posted on 05/13/2020 11:01:35 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

New idea from liberals.

Squat toilets only.


2 posted on 05/13/2020 11:02:39 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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


3 posted on 05/13/2020 11:03:44 AM PDT by AFB-XYZ
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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.

4 posted on 05/13/2020 11:04:02 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: AFB-XYZ

It’s Shiffing!


5 posted on 05/13/2020 11:05:51 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I knew it. Masks are just the beginning.


6 posted on 05/13/2020 11:05:56 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

How about a Purell spraying bidet?


7 posted on 05/13/2020 11:06:02 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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


8 posted on 05/13/2020 11:06:05 AM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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To: ifinnegan
Lets just outlaw going to the bathroom...


9 posted on 05/13/2020 11:06:36 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


10 posted on 05/13/2020 11:06:48 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

(but ended up trapping and hosing down homeless people)

Sounds like a win win.


11 posted on 05/13/2020 11:07:10 AM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic #Godwins)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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


12 posted on 05/13/2020 11:07:27 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


13 posted on 05/13/2020 11:07:54 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Texas Eagle

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


14 posted on 05/13/2020 11:09:30 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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


15 posted on 05/13/2020 11:09:36 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: DUMBGRUNT
I may never go to the bathroom again.


16 posted on 05/13/2020 11:09:43 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Stickers, Toilet, Decal,
17 posted on 05/13/2020 11:09:47 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

and so the Squatter was born ...


18 posted on 05/13/2020 11:10:03 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Poop in the bushes?


19 posted on 05/13/2020 11:10:09 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ifinnegan
Squat toilets only.

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

20 posted on 05/13/2020 11:11:02 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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