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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 6, 2020 21:03:10 GMT
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 6, 2020 21:04:40 GMT
It legitimately horrifies me the amount of people who use a public bathroom and just walkout without washing their hands. Dude, it's one of life's greatest mysteries. My old firm, one of the senior partners used to come out of the stall and just head right out the door every single time. For the 12 years I worked there I saw him do this, and I'm guessing throughout his entire life. Ugh. Every single door he touches from there to get back to his office, opening the fridge in the kitchen, shaking people's hands, touching apples at the grocery store, handling the TV remote in the hotel....I'm not a germophobe by any stretch of the imagination, but that's just disgusting on so many levels. In my younger days, I worked at a fine dining restaurant and saw a banquet manager use the bathroom and exit without washing his hands. Of course, I also saw the chef scrape up spilled stew off the floor in the walk-in and serve it later that night. Needless to say I've never gone to that restaurant to eat. I only worked there a few months, otherwise I'd probably never eat out again. I'm a moderate germophobe, I guess. I wash my hands after handling my business and anytime I'm handling food or silverware/dinnerware/cooking utensils at home, and also use hand sanitizer when I eat at restaurants. You can't stop all the germs, but you can be responsible for doing your best to not spread your own everywhere you go. This shouldn't need to feel like sage advice for adults in the civilized world.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Mar 6, 2020 21:07:33 GMT
Dude, it's one of life's greatest mysteries. My old firm, one of the senior partners used to come out of the stall and just head right out the door every single time. For the 12 years I worked there I saw him do this, and I'm guessing throughout his entire life. Ugh. Every single door he touches from there to get back to his office, opening the fridge in the kitchen, shaking people's hands, touching apples at the grocery store, handling the TV remote in the hotel....I'm not a germophobe by any stretch of the imagination, but that's just disgusting on so many levels. In my younger days, I worked at a fine dining restaurant and saw a banquet manager use the bathroom and exit without washing his hands. Of course, I also saw the chef scrape up spilled stew off the floor in the walk-in and serve it later that night. Needless to say I've never gone to that restaurant to eat. I only worked there a few months, otherwise I'd probably never eat out again. I'm a moderate germophobe, I guess. I wash my hands after handling my business and anytime I'm handling food or silverware/dinnerware/cooking utensils at home, and also use hand sanitizer when I eat at restaurants. You can't stop all the germs, but you can be responsible for doing your best to not spread your own everywhere you go. This shouldn't need to feel like sage advice for adults in the civilized world.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 6, 2020 21:10:25 GMT
I hear ya, and it's a good idea to wash your hands anyway, but... Anything you touch in a public bathroom is immaculate compared to the door handle you're going to touch on your way out. The bathroom may be gross, but it's much less likely to get you sick than shaking someone's hand. I don't touch any handles with my hands in public bathrooms. I'm also well stocked (in general, not this current scare) in hand sanitizer. Home/office/travel. Anyway, the reason you get sick from shaking someone's hand is they coughed in their hand, handled their junk in the bathroom and god knows what else and didn't wash their hands, then shook hands with you. That's my concern here, not just the bathroom itself. Yes, except for the 'handled their junk' part is really not the concern. People's remnants of their bathroom excretions on their hands are gross, and people fondling their nuts and then shaking hands with you is, likewise, repulsive. But those do not create the risk of illness, while the sneezing and coughing into their hands do.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 6, 2020 21:12:47 GMT
I don't touch any handles with my hands in public bathrooms. I'm also well stocked (in general, not this current scare) in hand sanitizer. Home/office/travel. Anyway, the reason you get sick from shaking someone's hand is they coughed in their hand, handled their junk in the bathroom and god knows what else and didn't wash their hands, then shook hands with you. That's my concern here, not just the bathroom itself. Yes, except for the 'handled their junk' part is really not the concern. People's remnants of their bathroom excretions on their hands are gross, and people fondling their nuts and then shaking hands with you is, likewise, repulsive. But those do not create the risk of illness, while the sneezing and coughing into their hands do. Agreed, which is why I mentioned both. My general point is, don't be an animal.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 6, 2020 21:25:53 GMT
Yes, except for the 'handled their junk' part is really not the concern. People's remnants of their bathroom excretions on their hands are gross, and people fondling their nuts and then shaking hands with you is, likewise, repulsive. But those do not create the risk of illness, while the sneezing and coughing into their hands do. Agreed, which is why I mentioned both. My general point is, don't be an animal. I guess we are saying the same thing. It just seemed that as you had worded it you were listing handling your junk as a way to get people sick. I just always found it a little ironic that people would compulsively use toilet seat covers, or lift the seat with their feet, or flush with their feet and then casually touch a handle on the way out and freely shake hands, hug, or kiss to greet people. Between those two sets of behaviors the socially acceptable things are far more likely to be harmful.
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Post by tristramshandy on Mar 6, 2020 22:41:06 GMT
SXSW was just cancelled one week before it was supposed to start.
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Post by Aj_June on Mar 7, 2020 0:31:38 GMT
Not an expert on this but probably heat of India provides some kind of resistance from Corona. India didn't suffer from SARS,Ebola, MERS, and yellow fever as did other parts of Asia. So far we have 31 detected cases which is quite low taking into account the 1.35 billion population and proximity to most affected areas. of those 31, 16 are a bunch of Italian tourists.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 10:13:56 GMT
The UK government is meeting main sporting bodies and broadcasters for coronavirus planning on Monday.
There is speculation that football won't be scrapped, but may finish the season behind closed doors.
That would make commentaries really weird to listen to.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Mar 7, 2020 10:25:39 GMT
I'm in fear of the Sixers and Flyers making the NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Finals respectively - and the season being cancelled around this time as the outbreak worsens.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 11:19:26 GMT
Confirmed in our city.
Scenes in my street the now...
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Mar 7, 2020 12:21:44 GMT
Per CNN - A cruise ship with thousands on board and 21 infected on board is coming closer to land - California. How do we handle this folks.
Let them infect us or cast them off?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 12:26:08 GMT
Per CNN - A cruise ship with thousands on board and 21 infected on board is coming closer to land - California. How do we handle this folks.
Let them infect us or cast them off? You've seen 'The Fog', you know how to deal with a plague ship.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 7, 2020 13:20:49 GMT
Confirmed in our city. Scenes in my street the now... Stay safe!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 13:27:05 GMT
Confirmed in our city. Scenes in my street the now... Stay safe! It was in people come back from Italy... Not surprising really as there was no screening of people on flights from Italy arriving at Bristol airport. Yet when people came back to the UK from Wu Tang they were all placed in 14 days quarantine, symptoms or not. 🤷♀️
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 7, 2020 13:31:35 GMT
It was in people come back from Italy... Not surprising really as there was no screening of people on flights from Italy arriving at Bristol airport.
Yet when people came back to the UK from Wu Tang they were all placed in 14 days quarantine, symptoms or not. 🤷♀️ I despair of our authorities sometimes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 13:34:36 GMT
It was in people come back from Italy... Not surprising really as there was no screening of people on flights from Italy arriving at Bristol airport.
Yet when people came back to the UK from Wu Tang they were all placed in 14 days quarantine, symptoms or not. 🤷♀️ I despair of our authorities sometimes. It makes no sense to quarantine people from one known plague area, and wave those from another through.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 13:37:16 GMT
Pope Francis is to give his Sunday Angelus Prayer online tomorrow, and not in person from the balcony, over Coronavirus fears.
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Post by Aj_June on Mar 7, 2020 13:41:38 GMT
It was in people come back from Italy... Not surprising really as there was no screening of people on flights from Italy arriving at Bristol airport.
Yet when people came back to the UK from Wu Tang they were all placed in 14 days quarantine, symptoms or not. 🤷♀️ I despair of our authorities sometimes. Almost 75% cases in India coming from Italy. I feel especially bad for the Iranians. Don't know why they are having such high numbers (3rd highest). Italy is in 4th number. I think thanks to the fact that India isn't a part of supply chain of South Asian manufacturing and that's why it is not getting infected at a great pace. Otherwise, given the bad sanitary conditions and poor or horrible health facilities, Corona would wreck havoc here.
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Post by mecano04 on Mar 7, 2020 13:50:52 GMT
Well we have 3 cases so far in Montréal but news also came out that there was barely any test done at the Dorval airport, which means that passengers from China, Iran and Italy may not have been fully tested.
Also looking at the way the flu is usually handled in our hospitals, chances are it's gonna go out of the airport like:
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