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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All of those things are cleaned before being consumed. The touch screen menus are one of the last things you touch before touching and eating your food.

The world may not be a clean room, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to deliberately interact with someone else's faeces, especially when I'm about to eat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hope you're not touching cash

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Strangely enough, you've made me realise that I haven't for a while. Not a deliberate thing, it's just that everything I've bought in person recently has been with a contactless method.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Doesn't matter. There's feces everywhere. When you smell a bad bathroom, a fart, your own poop it is because it is in the air all around you. You're nose is actually detecting the particles of shit in your nostrils. It is on your clothes, on your skin, on your face, on your hands.

The test used to detect trace amount of feces would likely find feces on door knobs, stove dials, clothes or anything else often touched in your house right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Please be one of those people that washes their hands instead of this functioning as some broad, sweeping excuse because "it's already everywhere." I don't know how else fecal matter would be expected to travel to a stove dial.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I wash my hands all the time. I'm not voluntarily gross. The tests will find trace amounts but if you don't wash your hands after going to the bathroom, you are a gross person passing on loads of bacteria that is exponentially more than the testing will find.

I appreciate the distinction though. There are definitely people that live like that. There used to be a guy at a place I used to work who used to dig in those big trail mix jars people put out sometimes instead of dumping them into something or even dumping them into their hands. Once I was in the bathroom (washing my hands) and saw him leave the stall and just walk straight out. Now I can't see those without thinking about that. I'll never touch those things again.