There is data tho? Enough that public bathrooms are often covered in antimicrobial surfaces and healthcare settings take it into account…
The undeniable fact is that fecal matter gets send all over the place. If that actively gets people sick seems to be in the “maybe yes, maybe no” category but that’s enough for me to avoid the situation in the first place.
Even if there wasn’t any data, the poop on toothbrush issue is one I’d happily avoid on faith alone lol
For sure, peace of mind is priceless. And I’m not saying it can’t make people sick, but it obviously doesn’t make people sick at any non-negligible rates, or we’d be seeing those patterns. And I realize this isn’t an actual issue for your situation, but closing the lid does nothing.
Public bathrooms have antimicrobial surfaces because people can’t be trusted to wash the actual-disease-causing amounts of feces off of their hands. Healthcare settings obviously need to take every possible vector more seriously, and even they can’t stop it without a sealed lid, which again, I’ve never seen anywhere. Like, there are bathroom attendants, people whose whole job is to sit in the bathroom all day, the patterns would be unavoidable and undeniable.
And my main gripe is that if fecal plumes had any adverse effects, even wrt toothbrushes, the data would be in by now.
There is data tho? Enough that public bathrooms are often covered in antimicrobial surfaces and healthcare settings take it into account…
The undeniable fact is that fecal matter gets send all over the place. If that actively gets people sick seems to be in the “maybe yes, maybe no” category but that’s enough for me to avoid the situation in the first place.
Even if there wasn’t any data, the poop on toothbrush issue is one I’d happily avoid on faith alone lol
For sure, peace of mind is priceless. And I’m not saying it can’t make people sick, but it obviously doesn’t make people sick at any non-negligible rates, or we’d be seeing those patterns. And I realize this isn’t an actual issue for your situation, but closing the lid does nothing.
Public bathrooms have antimicrobial surfaces because people can’t be trusted to wash the actual-disease-causing amounts of feces off of their hands. Healthcare settings obviously need to take every possible vector more seriously, and even they can’t stop it without a sealed lid, which again, I’ve never seen anywhere. Like, there are bathroom attendants, people whose whole job is to sit in the bathroom all day, the patterns would be unavoidable and undeniable.