View Full Version : Let's Play a Game...
HoneyBadger
10-05-2014, 20:53
The game is simple: Pretend that your hands are covered in Ebola sauce; keep track of everything that you touch. You get a 5 minute grace period after thoroughly sanitizing your hands, then you can assume that your hands are again covered in Ebola sauce.
Extra credit: Count the number of times you touch your face each day. Or each hour.... Whichever is more reasonable.
The game begins NOW!
Be aware that reality television and Internet browsing significantly increases face palms.
GunsRBadMMMMKay
10-05-2014, 21:04
LOL.....
Good training exercise, put on some latex/rubber gloves. Now slather gloves with grease. Now take your gloves of without getting grease on your skin.
Great-Kazoo
10-05-2014, 21:05
i will have been gloved after correct hand washing #1. Like you i have a spouse, why do you need to touch anything?
I've touched at least fourteen different things since I read this. Good thing I'm immune to the Ebola virus.
LOL.....
Good training exercise, put on some latex/rubber gloves. Now slather gloves with grease. Now take your gloves of without getting grease on your skin.
We did this at work, but with mustard. Takes a couple tries to get it right.
GilpinGuy
10-05-2014, 21:56
Everyone I love is dead. Thanks bro. [Sarcasm2]
wctriumph
10-06-2014, 01:26
I'd play your game but I died a horrible death days ago.
Not looking good for me and all those around me.
“You Have Died of Dysentery”
Also, a thief stole my wagon wheel.
Great-Kazoo
10-06-2014, 08:49
Well the spouse had dropped. Luckily every food item is open and sitting on the counter.
This game sucks... The dogs are infected, the mailman is going to die, the bathroom is in dire need of quarantine (but that was before the game started) and I'm pretty sure I have Ebola sauce dripping from my ears (stupid itch).
I died weeks ago from gonnaherpesyphebolaids...Now I'm an Ebolarabies zombie in D.C. I'll starve to death(again) in a search for braaaainssss....
We went to dinner with my wife's sister this weekend. We were discussing it and she got up to go wash her hands. She came back and felt better. This is where I lol'd. I looked at her and said "Great, but now you've already touched the door knob, table, and lots of other things that you have no idea who touched it before you...and now you're touching your face again."
She got this "OMG we're screwed" look on her face.
HoneyBadger
10-06-2014, 09:59
We went to dinner with my wife's sister this weekend. We were discussing it and she got up to go wash her hands. She came back and felt better. This is where I lol'd. I looked at her and said "Great, but now you've already touched the door knob, table, and lots of other things that you have no idea who touched it before you...and now you're touching your face again."
She got this "OMG we're screwed" look on her face.
Yep. This game could be called "Now I'm a germophobe"
I like to assume (and hope) that the paper towels in the bathroom are not contaminated, so I use them to turn off the water, open the door, etc.
I recently started keeping track of everything I touch in a typical day (for example: car, keys, phone, computer mouse and keyboard, bathroom sink, doorknobs, handrails, etc) and periodically wipe it all down with lysol (bleach) wipes.
sellersm
10-06-2014, 10:14
Thanks for the awareness... I'm pretty much toast! Too many years since I had to work in sterile fields.
Yep. This game could be called "Now I'm a germophobe"
I like to assume (and hope) that the paper towels in the bathroom are not contaminated, so I use them to turn off the water, open the door, etc.
I recently started keeping track of everything I touch in a typical day (for example: car, keys, phone, computer mouse and keyboard, bathroom sink, doorknobs, handrails, etc) and periodically wipe it all down with lysol (bleach) wipes.
Which brings to mind a huge gripe: Why do public restrooms always have the door open INTO the restroom, so that you have to grab the handle that 100000 non-handwashing neanderthals have touched with their filthy unwashed hands?
I, like many people, use the paper towel method, but wouldn't it make more sense to just have the damn thing open outwards, so you could use your foot on the kickplate to open the damn door?
HoneyBadger
10-06-2014, 10:34
Which brings to mind a huge gripe: Why do public restrooms always have the door open INTO the restroom, so that you have to grab the handle that 100000 non-handwashing neanderthals have touched with their filthy unwashed hands?
I, like many people, use the paper towel method, but wouldn't it make more sense to just have the damn thing open outwards, so you could use your foot on the kickplate to open the damn door?
I think the intention is that somebody could make it into the bathroom easier if they were in a real hurry... but that's just my guess.
I'd rather not touch that handle before I touch my male parts. At least after, I have the option to use towels to open it. Are you going to grab napkins before you go to the restroom?
HoneyBadger
10-06-2014, 10:55
Are you going to grab napkins before you go to the restroom?
Maybe you should... [shithitsfan]
[Coffee]
GunsRBadMMMMKay
10-06-2014, 13:47
I'd rather not touch that handle before I touch my male parts. At least after, I have the option to use towels to open it. Are you going to grab napkins before you go to the restroom?
Depending on your trade, a lot of us get used to washing our hands before we go to the bathroom (and after......usually :p)
George Carlin put it best:
NSFW (language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29lF43mUlo
Great-Kazoo
10-06-2014, 14:11
Which brings to mind a huge gripe: Why do public restrooms always have the door open INTO the restroom, so that you have to grab the handle that 100000 non-handwashing neanderthals have touched with their filthy unwashed hands?
I, like many people, use the paper towel method, but wouldn't it make more sense to just have the damn thing open outwards, so you could use your foot on the kickplate to open the damn door?
Safety. John or Jane Doe is walking down the open air mall when all of a sudden. BAM Tommy 2 shits, with unwashed hands just slammed a 40LB solid core door in to Janes plastic surgery nose.
spqrzilla
10-06-2014, 14:18
I awaiting my shipment of 55 gallon drums of hand sanitizer gel.
HoneyBadger
10-06-2014, 21:01
I awaiting my shipment of 55 gallon drums of hand sanitizer gel.
Yeah, I've got a few gallons of it on hand.
Great-Kazoo
10-06-2014, 22:00
Yeah, I've got a few gallons of it on hand.
Placebo. Almost any hand wipe will do the same job.
Double-action spring door hinges.
Aloha_Shooter
10-07-2014, 13:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FvX_Suj11s
HoneyBadger
10-07-2014, 15:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FvX_Suj11s
Surely, this is in our near future!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ebola-outbreak-husband-of-spanish-nurse-placed-in-quarantine-as-22-contacts-identified-9779682.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-07/several-dozen-u-s-troops-to-have-contact-testing-ebola.html
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/220046-cdc-airborne-ebola-possible-but-unlikely
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-questions-20141007-story.html#page=1
james_bond_007
10-07-2014, 15:51
My wife is a grade school teacher.
She did something like your experiment with the kids, but it was 2-fold:
a) to show them how well (or badly) they wash their hands
b) to show them how they spread germs
Part a:
1) Got some clear 'goop' that you can only see under a blacklight, and had them do the hand slathering thing
2) Had them to wash their hands as BEST as they could
3) Had them look at their hands after washing, under a blacklight, to show them what they missed
Part b:
1) At the end of the day,
2) she shut off the lights
3) Went around the room with the blacklight to show them everything they touched (i.e., the 'germs' they could have spread)
Quite a 'revealing' exercise.
That's a good experiment. An interesting twist, would be for her to not have included 1-5 kids, and see how much they ended up with on them at the end of the day.
HoneyBadger
10-07-2014, 16:21
My wife is a grade school teacher.
She did something like your experiment with the kids, but it was 2-fold:
a) to show them how well (or badly) they wash their hands
b) to show them how they spread germs
Part a:
1) Got some clear 'goop' that you can only see under a blacklight, and had them do the hand slathering thing
2) Had them to wash their hands as BEST as they could
3) Had them look at their hands after washing, under a blacklight, to show them what they missed
Part b:
1) At the end of the day,
2) she shut off the lights
3) Went around the room with the blacklight to show them everything they touched (i.e., the 'germs' they could have spread)
Quite a 'revealing' exercise.
Awesome.
That's a good experiment. An interesting twist, would be for her to not have included 1-5 kids, and see how much they ended up with on them at the end of the day.
Agreed. That would be interesting to see. I bet with kids, the goop would be all over their hands and faces by the end of the day.
Want to really freak, read this: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/germ-theory-robert-p-gaynes/1110902313?cm_mmc=google+product+search-_-q000000633-_-9781555815295pla-_-textbook_instock_26to75_pt99-_-q000000633-_-9781555815295&ean=9781555815295&isbn=9781555815295&kpid=9781555815295&r=1
I worked in BioTech for 3 years and took 2 graduate level biological engineering courses, sure, I might be a bit of a germophobe. Concentrate people, you will eventually get a hug kill off one way or another.
I was clean room (<10ppm) certified multiple times, never failed, but I was shocked that so few of my co-workers could not consistently pass.
jonny450r
10-10-2014, 07:08
After getting the great news I had to be in Dallas this week. Not only did i notice how much you personally touch but watch how much other people inadvertently touch each other. Yep germophobe in full swing right now. Clorox wipes and purell are at the ready (now only if I can remember when I put my tin hat)
HoneyBadger
10-10-2014, 11:19
After getting the great news I had to be in Dallas this week. Not only did i notice how much you personally touch but watch how much other people inadvertently touch each other. Yep germophobe in full swing right now. Clorox wipes and purell are at the ready (now only if I can remember when I put my tin hat)
Yeah, its a little disturbing. I'm trying to limit my contact with door handles and other common public things like drinking fountains. BTW, make sure your hand sanitizer is at least 60% alcohol (Most of them on the shelf are, but it's good to be sure) or it might not kill all the Ebola sauce.
I've been practicing taking gloves off correctly after working on my car each day this week.
jonny450r
10-13-2014, 19:30
Yeah, its a little disturbing. I'm trying to limit my contact with door handles and other common public things like drinking fountains. BTW, make sure your hand sanitizer is at least 60% alcohol (Most of them on the shelf are, but it's good to be sure) or it might not kill all the Ebola sauce.
name brand Purrell is 70% so all good there. But between last week and now flying to WI and having to be back in TX nest week. Another eye opener is how well the airlines don't clean their planes, although with this scare in Boston and the nurse in Dallas contracting ebola, might give some people a clue on how serious this is/can become.
Yeah, I've got a few gallons of it on hand.
Shame you don't have a 55 gallon drum to put it in.
I keep my hands firmly tucked in my armpits unless I need to smell test them.
HoneyBadger
10-13-2014, 20:59
I keep my hands firmly tucked in my armpits unless I need to smell test them.
Good Plan. You owe me a barrel. I owe you a visit. You gonna be around next Wednesday?
Good Plan. You owe me a barrel. I owe you a visit. You gonna be around next Wednesday?
Next Wednesday is still 2nd rifle... Gonna be 172 miles from here unless I fill the tag by then.
HoneyBadger
10-14-2014, 08:23
Next Wednesday is still 2nd rifle... Gonna be 172 miles from here unless I fill the tag by then.
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