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abdominusrex696969 23 Jul @ 2:32am

Covid found a hack

so I go to the gym right, and everyone there for the past 5 years since Covid started has been on a big kick with what they call the wipe down station.

Used to be if you were a sweaty guy, you carried a towel around your neck and wiped your sweat off the bench when you were done. Common courtesy, like unracking the plates off the bar. However when Covid came around, this wasn't good enough anymore. Now the expected etiquette is to go over to the station with paper towels, spray them with disinfectant, and come back to wipe down the bench, bar, handles, and anything else. The more wiping the better since it's a form of virtue signalling.

Here's the problem though, if you actually care about the spread of disease like I do. That spray bottle handle, think about it. How many people touch that thing? Are they somehow magically spraying down the spray bottle itself? No. Are they wiping down the spray bottle after touching it? No.

So basically every person in the gym is coming up and touching that spray bottle handle with their dirty hands. If you actually WANTED to get covid, then touching the spray bottle at the station meant to prevent covid is, ironically, the fastest way to do it.

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EASY PETE 23 Jul @ 2:35am

One day i did an experiment, i wanted to get covid to see how it was so i touched everything and licked public door handles and everything.

Didn’t catch anything. Weird

Kamiyama 23 Jul @ 2:48am

Now I know why I don't go to the gym. I could be at the gym, wiping down my body in public, or I could sit at home and watch anime and eat delicious pizza.

The bravest fat people will stare directly at the ladies while wiping their body and wiggle their eyebrows like "Hey babe! I know you want some of this!"

Tonepoet 23 Jul @ 3:06am

So you go to the bathroom to poop. You wipe your butt with a paper towel. You go to the sink to wash your hands. You turn a knob to get the water running through the faucet. You soap up your hands. Wash them really good. Now what do you do? Do you just leave the water running so you don't have to touch the knob you touched with your unclean hand again, or do you turn the faucet and possibly get butt germs back on the hand you just washed?

Okay, fine, you turned the faucet on with your other hand, but let's say this is a public bathroom in a diner. Did everybody remember to do that? How do you know you're not getting somebody else's butt germs on the hands on the hand you just washed and are about to use to grab a greasy hamburger by the buns and shove into your mouth?

It seems to me like you need hand sanitizer for situations like this, or maybe your own disinfectant to clean the gym's disinfectant bottle and the Diner's bathroom faucet.

Last edited by Tonepoet; 23 Jul @ 3:08am

Christian 23 Jul @ 3:13am

The guy who stocks the sodas scratches his butt while driving the truck from gas station to station. He stocks the coolers, and the attendant helps. You buy a can and push the tab down into your drink. Every pour into your mouth passes over the tab as your mouth cups the rim of the can.

Last edited by Christian; 23 Jul @ 3:13am

abdominusrex696969 23 Jul @ 3:21am

I remember back during the height of Covid one of the most common disease vectors was the cap on those little bottles of hand sanitizer they put all over the place because they thought it was helping.

Astrallight 23 Jul @ 3:25am

Originally posted by Tonepoet:
So you go to the bathroom to poop. You wipe your butt with a paper towel. You go to the sink to wash your hands. You turn a knob to get the water running through the faucet. You soap up your hands. Wash them really good. Now what do you do? Do you just leave the water running so you don't have to touch the knob you touched with your unclean hand again, or do you turn the faucet and possibly get butt germs back on the hand you just washed?

Okay, fine, you turned the faucet on with your other hand, but let's say this is a public bathroom in a diner. Did everybody remember to do that? How do you know you're not getting somebody else's butt germs on the hands on the hand you just washed and are about to use to grab a greasy hamburger by the buns and shove into your mouth?

It seems to me like you need hand sanitizer for situations like this, or maybe your own disinfectant to clean the gym's disinfectant bottle and the Diner's bathroom faucet.

Thats why soap dispensers with hand sensors and hand sanitizer with hand sensors is the most clean way to clean your hands.

Despiser 23 Jul @ 3:28am

Originally posted by EASY PETE:
One day i did an experiment, i wanted to get covid to see how it was so i touched everything and licked public door handles and everything.

Didn’t catch anything. Weird

That's disgusting. Did you try toilet bowls? I've had it 3 times. It's mutated to be as weak as the common cold. Though first time was brutal, and I still have a wheeze when I cough.