Mildly Infuriating

This reminds me of a sign I saw at a restaurant bathroom recently.

There are plenty of ways to make this better. Most of it's theater because there's nothing really wrong with touching the door, but some of the ways are not even expensive to make it comfortable for germaphobes.

Single bathroom doors always swing out

Copper-plate the handles

If you have to swing in, add a foot handle.

Shout out to S shaped hallway with no doors 😭you're the real mvp

Now don't say that, we're gonna have touchless doors that don't work for dark skinned folks and too excited to open for white people passing by

And lazy shits who leave paper towels on the floor by the door.

Fun fact! As long as the soap inside the dispenser works as it should it literally doesnt matter if it is touch or how covered in germs it is.

Chop your hands off, germ phobia problem solved.

Grab the handle with your butt cheeks. it's a talent/skill you can hone

Touchless sinks are the worst fucking tech ever. Shit never works, and when it does, it never gives you enough water to get a good hand wash

This is why I love those things at the bottom of the door that lets you open the door with your foot.

I've had contamination OCD for the majority of my life, and this shit has been torture for me.

I've been trying to get a ADA accommodation to work from home because my job is in software, but the bastards over at HR think that clorox wipes and a dedicated cube will solve this shit. It's irritating as fuck that nobody in charge seems capable of piecing basic hygiene together.

Mythbusters did a segment that showed the air dryers are more likely to spread germs. So it's just awful all around

This thread renforces my theory that hygienism is a bastard of capitalism. So much useless worries but in the same time so lucrative

This wouldn't be a problem if people actually washed their hands.

Geez I guess some people never go outside into the world of germs

Turns out businesses don’t care about cleanliness or your safety beyond the point where it might affect their bottom line and just install touchless sinks and hand dryers to save money on water and paper towels

I mean unless the air blowing on your hands was freshly filtered and uv sterilized that is going to be an issue to.

Any handle or surface in public areas, assume the person that handled it before you had just finished taking a monster shit and skipped the handwashing before rubbing their pathogen-factories all over it. Photo in OP, there's not really a good option, so you're in damage control mode... check for toilet seat liners that some public restrooms stock and grab one of them? At least that's something the other people handle before getting shit all over their hands.

One of the nastiest assignments I've had working in a hospital was 'Handwashing Monitor'. And let me tell you, I've debrided infected wounds; wiped maggots out of some fucker's pannus; cleaned up every bodily fluid our bodies are capable of cranking out from the floor, walls, and sometimes ceiling; helped amputate limbs that were literally rotten to the bone, and wiped a cumulative mile or two of ass crack...

...apply to nursing school today!!...

...but anyway, Handwashing Monitor. It is beyond appalling the number of patients, visitors, techs, nurses, doctors, housekeepers, you name it... who'd go in and out of patient rooms without performing hand hygiene; or they'd wash their hands, but for like half a second; or not use soap; or turn the faucet on with their grimy-ass hands, do a thorough handwash, then immediately contaminate themselves by grabbing that same dirty-ass faucet with their bare hands to turn it off. The thing that made that position take the crown above all the other examples I gave in the previous paragraph was the realization that the community who is THE single most painfully aware of pathogens and their origins / mechanism of spreading... can't even wash their fucking hands!

...which brings us back to my opening sentence: it's not advice on sheer ick factor, but a reasonable assumption based on directly observed evidence.

And no, this wasn't just a particularly icky hospital: I've worked in multiple states for multiple organizations/facilities, and to this day get eye-rolls for asking people to re-wash or even first-wash their hands.

We nasty. Be a germaphobe. End rant.