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‘We may have to rethink the toilet seat altogether’: How the coronavirus could change bathrooms for the better
Fast Company ^ | 11 May 2020 | LARA SOROKANICH

Posted on 05/13/2020 11:01:35 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Consider that the vast majority of commercial bathrooms in the U.S. don’t even include lids on toilets—meaning that every time someone flushes, a “toilet plume” of droplets explodes into the air, coating the surrounding stall (and the person standing in it) and aerosolizing the bowl’s contents, which can be breathed in and ingested by nearby parties (gross)

We also know that COVID-19 has been found in human poop, up to 33 days after infected people have recovered and tested negative for the virus. No amount of handwashing will remove a virus sprayed all over your body.

“a huge uptick in requests for touchless technologies,” particularly from schools hoping to improve bathrooms before potentially reopening this fall

“People don’t even want to touch a manual flush valve; they kick-flush using their foot,”

a disastrous experiment by the city of Seattle to install self-cleaning public bathrooms—which sprayed disinfectant and power-washed floors after every use (but ended up trapping and hosing down homeless people)

(Excerpt) Read more at fastcompany.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2020election; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; fastcompany; larasorokanich; mediawingofthednc; nitwit; partisanmediashills; plumbing; presstitutes; smearmachine
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Trapping and hosing down homeless people“ seems like a good idea.


21 posted on 05/13/2020 11:13:58 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Steve_Seattle
How many people lower the toilet seat lid before flushing? One in 5,000?

Having read years ago about "flushing plumes", I immediately adopted the practice of never flushing without closing the lid. Think about people whose toothbrushes are hanging out in their holders on the wall, a couple feet from the toilet. Ick.

22 posted on 05/13/2020 11:14:36 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: absalom01

I just love the ones in the parks which flush periodically. Scares the sh** out of you...no pun intended.


23 posted on 05/13/2020 11:16:36 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Leep

this turd never goes down.

24 posted on 05/13/2020 11:16:36 AM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic #Godwins)
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To: duckman

“How about a Purell spraying bidet?”

Apparently, FTA, efforts to automatically clean bathrooms are harmful to vagabonds and professional layabouts.


25 posted on 05/13/2020 11:16:43 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

and best of all, toilet paper will be obsolete, hence no reason to hoard it any longer . . . .


26 posted on 05/13/2020 11:16:54 AM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

How about more regular cleaning... no, that doesn’t sound right.


27 posted on 05/13/2020 11:18:02 AM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: Cicero
Poop in the bushes?

Well, the Chinese living in Queens certainly did. I remember my downstairs neighbor and I finding a little pile deposited against the side of our building. Yuck.

28 posted on 05/13/2020 11:18:20 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Steve_Seattle

I do, only after watching a blacklight video of ‘fecal plume’. Well, when I remember to.


29 posted on 05/13/2020 11:22:20 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What’s wrong with the auto toilets we have now?
He doesn’t enjoy flushing the toilet about a half a dozen times?
Maybe they are going to make it so it takes a dozen times?
BTw never sit on a public toilet seat..even with the paper cover.


30 posted on 05/13/2020 11:22:43 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: duckman

“How about a Purell spraying bidet?”

Yes, but wouldn’t that sting? :-)


31 posted on 05/13/2020 11:22:44 AM PDT by AFB-XYZ
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What’s wrong with the auto toilets we have now?
WHO doesn’t enjoy flushing the toilet about a half a dozen times?


32 posted on 05/13/2020 11:23:52 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: reg45

Thermoses can detect if a beverage is hot or cold and keep it that way! Toilets can detect homelessness! Technology is amazing :)


33 posted on 05/13/2020 11:25:04 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: DUMBGRUNT

LOL! A single pathogen, not much different in its mortality then that of it’s deadly predecessors, and of course the world goes bananas!

No ulterior motive here is there?? Just coincidence that the the WHO/CDC/UN globalist commies are losing their grip on world power and central control.


34 posted on 05/13/2020 11:27:36 AM PDT by Bellagio
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To: Unassuaged
"I do, only after watching a blacklight video of ‘fecal plume’. Well, when I remember to."

I really didn't want to go there, but what about the "plop plume" when you're sitting on the toilet. Or the "pee plume" from yourself?
35 posted on 05/13/2020 11:28:18 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: DallasBiff

And India, which ironically sends people to steal American tech jobs.


36 posted on 05/13/2020 11:29:05 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: GnuThere

Just look at the wet floor of most bathrooms. Ugh. On my shoes and into my car or house.


37 posted on 05/13/2020 11:35:20 AM PDT by Oldexpat (Stand strong VA.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

38 posted on 05/13/2020 11:35:21 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: ifinnegan

Squat toilets only.

I have spent years with squat toilets, they are not a problem.
I prefer the ones the footprints and combo shower.

Not the ones with the elevated ring target.


39 posted on 05/13/2020 11:36:18 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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40 posted on 05/13/2020 11:37:23 AM PDT by DannyTN
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