Automatic Hand Dispensers Reduce Germs
A person cannot be too careful, despite the looks and comments from others
. It is no accident that I am extraordinarily limber and flexible for a 36 year old man: it is entirely because I work every device in a public restroom using my feet. Though the hand dryer took a few months of painful, masochistic stretching to reach with even the tips of my toes, today I rest easy knowing that I can enter, exit and utilize a public restroom without exposure to harmful contaminants, as well as being able to do a rather impress split to impress women.I am not sure that it does impress them, but, we are going to continue trying. Flexibility aside, long known to be home to an amazing variety of bacteria, viruses, germs, biologically hazardous materials and even chemical contaminants, public restrooms are environments in which opportunistic infections take hold of a person, and are to be avoided at all costs. Unfortunately, that is not always feasible, but thankfully, new automatic hand dispenser reduce the number of things with which an individual needs to come in to contact, and limits exposure to dangerous materials considerably.
Automatic hand dispensers take the place of the traditional and manual style of paper towel dispensers. Whereas before, visitors to public restrooms were left to either grope a half-soaked pile of rough brown paper towels left next to the sink, or to take their chances with the bathroom equivalent of the one-armed bandit slot machines, today paper towels can be had with as little as a friendly wave to the automatic hand dispensers placed strategically throughout the environment. A simple wave causes the device to dispense a few paper towels, and further waves result in more towels being ejected from the device.
This is a really wonderful development, in that even after hand-washing many individuals still have a great many contaminants present on their hands, contaminants which they pass to the handle of the paper towel dispenser or the sodden pile of paper towels next to the sink, and some of these contaminants are inevitably transferred to the next unsuspecting visitor. Rather than rush home to start an 11-day cycle of antibiotics, a simple wave for paper towels removes one more object from the list of dangerous contaminants with which I might ruin my day, burden my mind and ultimately require an hour-long scouring of the hands with boiling water, medical-grade soap and steel wool brushes.
Disease and infection control are topics taken far too lightly by most of the populace, with an alarmingly-low percentage of adults engaging in proper hand-washing upon completion of their business in public and private restrooms. Even persons who do wash their hands faithfully either fail to do a good job, or are still simply carriers for a great many contaminants. Automatic hand dispensers provide one more barrier between the public and the diseases transmitted by their peers, in fact a great yet innocuous way to improve upon the public's health at large.
by: Lydia Ross.