Mildly Infuriating

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Obviously it doesn't work on these types of doors, but I really liked the foot grips that were installed on bathroom doors at the height of the pandemic. It makes no sense to me why they were removed

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

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

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

Use your elbow, or your foot.

How am I supposed to trap a velociraptor in the bathroom with a handle like that?

Yess so you go into the stall and grab some shit tickets so you don't have to touch the door handle and then Ooop they didn't put a trashcan anywhere near the door.

I understand not everyone is gonna shell out for a hook so you can operate the door with your foot, but at least put a trash can in throwing distance of the door so I don't have to touch the nasty ass handle with my clean hands.

The best is no door at all - like at airports where there’s just a barrier wall you have to walk around. I was about to say it’s not something you can do in every setting, but that’s only because we aren’t willing to dedicate the space to it.

I would simply pinch the handle between my absolute dumptruck bootycake cheeks

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