You Should Know

Paid for by the paper towel industry which was in response to the hand dryer industry putting out it's own paid study about how paper towels just spread fecal matter around your hands. It's all shit no matter how you spread it.

I can't remember where I saw this so take it with a grain of salt... But I remember that the set of studies to come out on the sanitary condition of air dryers was funded by the paper towel industry. Not that the studies aren't correct or anything, but I do think that it's something to consider.

You should also know that when they test for fecal matter they aren't looking for actual pieces of poo they are looking for bacteria that are present in poo. You will find those bacteria just about everywhere

I'm pretty sure that regardless of where you are or what you're doing, fecal matter is getting blown on your hands. Mythbusters tested this out once by putting tooth brushes all over their shop and then culturing the bacteria from them. IIRC the ones that were in the bathroom had the least amount of fecal matter.

If the blower is blowing fecal matter then it would also be settling all over the paper towels. Issue is placement not anything to do with the blowers.

Literally everything in the restroom is covered in that... Including the air you breathe. Enjoy!

It's not easy to convey important information when it comes to biology IMO.

Yeah we breath in fart and poop "particles" all the time, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

I don't know about the idea that every time you take a breath you inspire some molecules from when Ceasar said "et tu mon Brutus", or any other inspiring phrase, but also from one of Hitlers farts.

Molecules are small, really small and there are really many of them.

Our immune system works really hard, crazily hard even, and it's not a simple mechanism (we basically don't know how it works) but if you want to know if a fan blowing air or towel or a one usage towel is good or bad (or obviously how they influence our wellbeing) you have to do a real study. By scientists, and not by news looking "journalists".

BTW fact of the day to throw you off: there are somewhere around 600.000 cells that divide in an adult human body every:

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Yeah if there is nothing but blowers I just wipe my hands on my pants. If the blowers could somehow bring in outside air that should be better, but that complicates the install and maintainence.

... And a large portion of dust is dead skin cells. Also, during the springtime trees straight up bukake your face and lungs.

Well, it's from your (and other people's) hands, onto everywhere.

Still, AFAIK it's not clear if this is a problem.

Only wash my hands and flush the toilet in public restrooms that have touch less sinks. If the toilet isn't automatic, I use my foot. Use the paper towel you wash your hands with to open the door on the way out or your sleeve if you have long sleeves on, or your elbow if it's a push door. I'd rather have my own dick on my hands than my own and everyone else's.

Just do what I do and wipe your hands on your pants because those blow dryers are virtually worthless. I'd have better luck blowing on my hands myself.

Bonus: My pants aren't covered in fecal mist... I hope.

I don't care about that. What's worse for me is that the Dyson ones are so damn loud. It's a pain having to hold one arm over your head in the stall to cover both ears.

Well I have to touch the door on the way out any way so it really doesn’t matter that much.

Still cleaner than the doorknob. I hate opening a restroom door. The stuff I touch going in will land on my genitals, on the way out everywhere else, like my face and food.

So... I'm fine with fecal matter. It's a fact of life. Can this make be sick or is it just ick?

didnt the mythbusters do an episode about keeping your toothbrush in the bathroom where their control toothbrush which just existed in a little glass dome for the duration of the test still ended up having the same bacteria thats present in poop as well?