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know what’s even better? plain old soap.
by clairity 6y ago
know what’s even better? plain old soap.
- azinman2 6y agoCan’t easily wash my hash my hands with soap in my car.
- nikolay 6y agoActually, there is dry soap nowadays, but you still need a little bit of water.
- lazide 6y agoI’d really hesitate before depending on that to any extent health wise. Water is an amazing solvent, and you get huge benefit from washing things away in it after oils and similar hydrophobic substances have been de-hydrophobic’d
- yellowapple 6y agoWhat sort of peasant doesn't have an entire lavatory in one's automobile?
- Scoundreller 6y agoMy bike has one so I don’t know how a car couldn’t.
- devwastaken 6y agoSoap is great but requires people to go through the much more rigorous and unavailable method of washing hands. Hand sanitizers are much faster and easier, which makes sanitization available in areas where it wasn't previously. For example in the office, school, stores, anywhere you're handling materials, etc. You should absolutely wash hands too, but there are a lot of reasons for portable hand sanitizers.
- clairity 6y agobut sanitizer is egregiously overused by the public, and most of it is doing nothing but pressing adaptation in microbes rather than reducing infections. it's useful in certain food-handling, waste-handling and healthcare settings, but not in most common situations like (semi-)public spaces and handling ordinary materials. the amount of friction presented by washing likely produces a more ideal balance between considerations like infection reduction, evolutionary pressure, and hypochondria/mysophobia inducement. the simple rule of thumb is to wash around waste, food prep/consumption, and illness. more than that, especially most sanitizer use because it's mostly outside of these situations, is likely a net-negative.
- lazide 6y agoIt is pretty unlikely microbes are going to be building up resistance to the microbial equivalent of getting doused in gasoline and set on fire. It dissolves the lipid shell and denatures key proteins in the shell. This is not subtle. In the evolutionary influence perspective for a microbe, it also still isn’t particularly common. Triclosan and the other problematic chemicals are much more targeted and more problematic from a resistance perspective because of it.
- JustSomeNobody 6y agoYep. Made a little portable sink for my trunk. After going anywhere, we dip our hands in the bucket, grab a bar and start scrubbing. Made a rinse hose out of some tygon tubing and a clamp. Oh sure, we get some stares, but it sure beats the cancer risk!