| TL:DR; toilet seats and bathrooms are perfectly safe. Wash your hands. I must be a very dirty person, because this article is very pedantic, and I would never consider any of these suggestions. I don't even wash my hands half the time, just run them under water so the other people in the house think I am civil and wash my hands after flushing the toilet. Squat if you have the muscles, but be sure to aim because you might increase the risk to the next person? This is just so absurd to me to be lectured by Health Officials and the NYT with then providing solutions to problems that dont exist. Like seriously, the ONLY pathogen they could identify that COULD be picked up by the butt skin is MRSA. It's low risk, there are no stats or proof that MRSA is transmitted through public washroom seats. And that risk averseness is parlayed into a virtue signalling lecture about squatting to avoid the non-risky public toilet seat, BUT OF COURSE be sure to (not shit everywhere) protect your fellow citizen from the non-risk of sitting on a dirty toilet seat. I'm sick of the nanny state and all its parts. |