Honestly they clean those seats after every patient anyway so I think the paper is just there because of lobbying from Big Paper.
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If my elbow touches a surface that was touched by another elbow I swear to god I'm going to kill myself.
That's if you have time before the previous elbow's super-AIDS gets you
I believe the 5 second rule still applies with elbow viruses
It's the moist cracks that get you.
Then he does an ultrasound and your entire front is dripping gel all over the place, and afterwards, he hands you one (1) small piece of tissue to clean yourself.
And I never sit comfortable in fear of ripping it all to shreds
To shreds you say
And his wife?
I also choose this man's ex wife
That's what's so insulting about American healthcare. If you're going to charge such criminally high prices, at least don't cheap out on the small stuff. Don't stock your bathrooms with ghostly thin sandpaper toilet paper. Have decently thick barrier paper. We're talking pennies here.
Usually the toilet paper is more about preventing clogs than anything else. You can use more of the thin stuff to compensate, but some people still use that amount of the thick stuff too and cause issues. Then not tell anyone about it out of embarrassment. Etc.
No more useful than the paper covers for toilet seats.
Wait...that's a thing?
Huh, lookit that! Lemmy showing me what a society looks like.
You're better off without them. Anything splashed on the seat is just going to soak into the paper, and if you dont pull off the flap (usually ripping the whole cover in half) it's going to wick up water and can be especially gross if you are a guy with external parts that will bump the soggy strip.
If you do place it on a dry seat, it is scratchy paper that is loud and crinkly and will slide every time you move. And at least for me, the cutout doesn't feel large enough and I'm scared stuff is going to catch on the paper on the way down and be held against me.
The hard, smooth, nonporous surface is pretty germ resistant in itself. I'd rather hunt for a cleaner stall than use one of the paper covers.
Yea, if no one ever told you, youβre supposed to wipe the seat with TP before laying one of these down. Itβs there because a dry wipe isnβt a very good cleaning.
But when you flush that TP, the water oversprays back up on the seat in an endless cycle of frustration! π€ͺ
If nobody ever told you, it's pretty much impossible to catch anything from a toilet seat anyway.
If nobody ever told you, smearing someone elseβs piss on your skin is gross even if you donβt catch a disease.
To add: my BIO101 class did an experiment to see how effective they are at stopping bacterial transmission. If you aren't using two dozen layers you might as well use zero.
The dangly parts aren't that far back.
Oh...oh god. There are so many more horrors related to this.
#4 is wrong and fucking gross. It looks like they've picked up the paper and folded it up, but you can see from #3 that the middle part is down in the water where it's supposed to be wet.
So according to that instruction, I'm either secretly tearing off that part without being instructed to, or I am pulling that pissy shitty part out of the water and folding it up while it drips all over the place. Disgusting!
What you're supposed to do is just flush and that part that's in the water yanks the paper off the seat without you having to touch anything. Admittedly, if the toilet seat has any "moisture" on it, then the paper can get stuck and might not go down.
Somehow, despite it being in hospitals, I never considered that the paper was for hygienic purposes. I always thought it was for comfort -- even though the paper really isn't comfortable at all, it's literally just paper.
Maybe these were standardized when people were smaller and less fat.


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