User Panel
Posted: 12/5/2022 11:13:36 AM EDT
LONDON — Health experts are warning shoppers to wash their hands regularly after a study found both feces and vomit-inducing bugs crawling on self-service checkout screens. The investigation by British scientists, involving swabs taken from several everyday objects touched by multiple people, reveals thousands of bacteria on the ubiquitous payment machines.
E.coli, which causes vomiting, was present on nearly all the surfaces. Fecal bacteria and microbes that lead to urinary tract infections (UTIs) were found on self-service screens. A bug commonly found in the vagina, mouth, throat and gut called Candida albicans, which can cause yeast infections, was also discovered on an escalator handrail. .. Dr. Adam Roberts, chief researcher with the agency, reports self-checkouts had a particularly high viral load. “The self-checkout samples had one of the highest bacterial loads, as we found five different types of potential disease-causing bacteria surviving on them,” he says in a statement per South West News Service. “This included Enterococcus which is found in human feces and, while this is usually harmless, it can of course lead to disease, particularly in those who may have weakened immune systems. https://studyfinds.org/wash-hands-checkout-screens-escalators-fecal-bacteria/ I remember a study several years back that close to 80% of self-serve fountain drink stations tested positive for fecal material. During WuFlu and the installation of all of these self-serve ordering kiosks and checkout stations touted as a way to stop the spread was laughable. |
|
Wash my hands? I'm the guy putting that shit on there! BWAH-HAHAHA!
|
|
While that may be objectively true, it's apparent that people aren't going around getting sick en masse despite the fact that they are interacting with these devices and fixtures daily.
Still, I wash my hands regularly. During WuFlu and the installation of all of these self-serve ordering kiosks and checkout stations touted as a way to stop the spread was laughable. View Quote WuFlu and other respiratory viruses don't typically spread from surface contacts so maybe not all that laughable. Might be increasing other forms of infection though which do. |
|
|
|
Yeah no doy. Myth busters covered this over a decade ago. Showed things like shopping cart handles are caked with fecal matter.
Ever since then I've been sanitizing. I was ready for COVID from that perspective. |
|
|
|
Wash your cell phone, keyboards, door handles, the list goes on...
|
|
Quoted: While that may be objectively true, it's apparent that people aren't going around getting sick en masse despite the fact that they are interacting with these devices and fixtures daily. Still, I wash my hands regularly. WuFlu and other respiratory viruses don't typically spread from surface contacts so maybe not all that laughable. Might be increasing other forms of infection though which do. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: While that may be objectively true, it's apparent that people aren't going around getting sick en masse despite the fact that they are interacting with these devices and fixtures daily. Still, I wash my hands regularly. During WuFlu and the installation of all of these self-serve ordering kiosks and checkout stations touted as a way to stop the spread was laughable. WuFlu and other respiratory viruses don't typically spread from surface contacts so maybe not all that laughable. Might be increasing other forms of infection though which do. Agree. But the claims of it being safer for the consumer to use self-serve kiosks was total shit. Literally. |
|
A PSA from on high to slim down, Brits.
One million will die by August We need two weeks of shutdown. Thanks for your cooperation |
|
Quoted: Yeah no doy. Myth busters covered this over a decade ago. Showed things like shopping cart handles are caked with fecal matter. Ever since then I've been sanitizing. I was ready for COVID from that perspective. View Quote This is where I was. I've been disgusted by people for decades lol All the idiotic things people did during covid were laughable. Touching the outside of their masks. Reusing their masks. Would social distance but still not wash their hands after using the bathroom. The list goes on. |
|
Years ago, I noticed a fair number of educated prople at work not washing their hands in the restroom.
As a result, I wash my hands multiple times per day on fend principles |
|
I wash my hands after I use the restroom or after preparing food, get my hands dirty, whatever. In no way am I a clean freak. I touch cart handles and self checkout screens without sanitizing before and after. Still, I rarely get sick.
|
|
I notice some folks just walk right out of the bathroom without washing their hands. Some pretend to wash their hands.
It’s sickening. |
|
Wait until I tell you about the serving utensils at buffets, the meat processing and packaging plant for a certain sandwich chain, *some* generic brand foods, cough drops, a processed fruit company, a beef jerky company, a large salsa company...
You will never put anything in your mouth store bought again. |
|
So is your bed and everything you touch if your toilet is within 10 ft of your bed.
|
|
Quoted: This is where I was. I've been disgusted by people for decades lol All the idiotic things people did during covid were laughable. Touching the outside of their masks. Reusing their masks. Would social distance but still not wash their hands after using the bathroom. The list goes on. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Yeah no doy. Myth busters covered this over a decade ago. Showed things like shopping cart handles are caked with fecal matter. Ever since then I've been sanitizing. I was ready for COVID from that perspective. This is where I was. I've been disgusted by people for decades lol All the idiotic things people did during covid were laughable. Touching the outside of their masks. Reusing their masks. Would social distance but still not wash their hands after using the bathroom. The list goes on. The gloves fascinated me. People seemed to think putting on latex gloves was a free pass to put their hands in their mouth. |
|
Quoted: I notice some folks just walk right out of the bathroom without washing their hands. Some pretend to wash their hands. It’s sickening. View Quote A guy I used to work with walked around with a face shield and took several opportunities to lecture everyone on how useless their masks were since they should all wear a shield like him. He just happened to be the nasty asshole that never washed his hands on his way out of the bathroom. |
|
Quoted: I notice some folks just walk right out of the bathroom without washing their hands. Some pretend to wash their hands. It’s sickening. View Quote Even cave men washed their hands…FFS Attached File |
|
Not a surprise.
My wife often uses a sanitary wipe after we leave stores. I think I'll join her. |
|
I didn't get my immune system by being afraid of fecal bacteria. I will not wash my hands. >:(
Quoted: Gotta build up immunities somehow. View Quote |
|
Quoted: Wait until I tell you about the serving utensils at buffets, the meat processing and packaging plant for a certain sandwich chain, *some* generic brand foods, cough drops, a processed fruit company, a beef jerky company, a large salsa company... You will never put anything in your mouth store bought again. View Quote Spend a month eating in china. The bacteria wars inside me were epic. |
|
Quoted: Agree. But the claims of it being safer for the consumer to use self-serve kiosks was total shit. Literally. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: While that may be objectively true, it's apparent that people aren't going around getting sick en masse despite the fact that they are interacting with these devices and fixtures daily. Still, I wash my hands regularly. During WuFlu and the installation of all of these self-serve ordering kiosks and checkout stations touted as a way to stop the spread was laughable. WuFlu and other respiratory viruses don't typically spread from surface contacts so maybe not all that laughable. Might be increasing other forms of infection though which do. Agree. But the claims of it being safer for the consumer to use self-serve kiosks was total shit. Literally. Oh sure. I was never worried about doing business with a dude by behind the register in the first place and you are probably 100% correct that banging on a public touch screen is grosser than verbally giving some guy your order. |
|
I use my car keys to push elevator buttons and touch screens. Then wash my hands.
|
|
Until I get an employee discount I'm not checking myself out.
|
|
Meh. A weekly swim through the sewer keeps your immune system strong.
The world is full of germs. I can see them everywhere. |
|
|
They aren't as bad as the disgusting Passport Control scanners at JFK Airport after an International flight.
|
|
Stopped at a farm and home store yesterday for softener salt. There was an old oriental (didn't speak English) couple checking out in front of me. The cashier told me not to touch the pen on the checkout screen. She said the guy had open sores that were bleeding on both hands. People are just fucking nasty. Just look at any public toilet...
|
|
Isn't the latest sexual perversion people licking someone else's asshole?
|
|
I watched a guy pull down his mask to lick his fingers to separate the plastic bag in produce. I laughed at him.
|
|
Yea and they've found fecal matter on the bristles of tooth brushes in many peoples homes.
|
|
|
|
|
Quoted: I didn't get my immune system by being afraid of fecal bacteria. I will not wash my hands. >:( View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: I didn't get my immune system by being afraid of fecal bacteria. I will not wash my hands. >:( Quoted: Gotta build up immunities somehow. There is a thing as being to clean weakens your immune system. |
|
Quoted: Wait until I tell you about the serving utensils at buffets, the meat processing and packaging plant for a certain sandwich chain, *some* generic brand foods, cough drops, a processed fruit company, a beef jerky company, a large salsa company... You will never put anything in your mouth store bought again. View Quote soylent isn't people it's fecal matter? |
|
|
immune system strong like bull.
yep the world is covered in piss shit cum and cocaine I don't care. |
|
|
Quoted: Yeah no doy. Myth busters covered this over a decade ago. Showed things like shopping cart handles are caked with fecal matter. Ever since then I've been sanitizing. I was ready for COVID from that perspective. View Quote we did the same shit in middleschool bio. my shoes came back as one of the samples with the most numerous colony counts as well as some of the most interesting colors. |
|
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.
AR15.COM is the world's largest firearm community and is a gathering place for firearm enthusiasts of all types.
From hunters and military members, to competition shooters and general firearm enthusiasts, we welcome anyone who values and respects the way of the firearm.
Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more.
Copyright © 1996-2024 AR15.COM LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Any use of this content without express written consent is prohibited.
AR15.Com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own.