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[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry but in what world are we teaching kids not to wash their hands? This seems a little hyperbolic to claim.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In what world? How about the real world?

https://www.cdc.gov/clean-hands/data-research/facts-stats/index.html

19% even "wash", but 1 in 20 properly wash.

Historically, parents only vaccinate kids in Ontario at about 28% -you think these shit 72% parents are teaching how to properly wash hands?

We shut down the School of Hygiene in 1975.

[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 4 points 2 days ago

This is not teaching them to wash. It's not teaching them NOT to.

One implies omission of responsibility, the other implies a more sinister agenda. There is a difference.

For what it is worth I generally agree that we are not being responsible in how we educate....welll...anyone. 

However, I do not think there is a cadre of humans pushing an anti-washing agenda because hygiene is too woke, though I fully acknowledge that the potential for something as stupid as this to be become real is high.