Public Toilet Seats - We had better change our hygiene habits now!

Dr. Oz had a segment on the good hygiene in public restrooms.

He proved that stall door handles and sink handles collected the most germs as people touch these after wiping off urine or feces from their body. But yet we touch the stall door handle BEFORE we wash our hands off, so germs are present there. Then we take those dirty hands and touch the sink handles.

He suggested washing hands and then using a paper towel to turn off water handle on sink. That way you do not reinfect clean hands.

I also use my paper towel when opening up exit door to women's restroom and throw towel in trash once door is held open with my shoulder. (Trash can is usually close to exit door so it becomes easy.)

Just think... every single person touches that door handle when exiting restroom, whether they wash their hands or not.

These little things WILL make a big difference for all of us.

Keep a portapotty in your van or minivan.

We have some Indian women climb up on the toilet seat and squat down to shit. They miss all the time and leave a turd on the rim.

Toilet seats? Wrong.
Atm machines,interac machines will be the mode of transmission.
Anything with a touch pad for entering a pin number will be the worst. Any store...every store. Every retailer.

IN Indiana, I rarely see these paper toilet covers except at the airport. But please take note, urine will penetrate paper toilet seats so be sure there is no visible wetness.

Another good strategy is to choose the least used stall, which is most likely a stall farthest from the front door.

I will contribute this:

As a (male) construction worker, I often work on jobsites that have no public porta-potty, even thought they are required by law. In the past I was forced to drive to the nearest Wendy's or whathaveyou, even though I despised the idea, no matter how clean OR filthy their public washroom was.
In other situations, I CHOSE to drive to the nearest public washroom because the provided porta-potty was so filthy, I would rather drive to a cleaner washroom and invoice for my wasted time.
In certain situations, I was working so far out of town that public washrooms did not exist, and no porta-potty was provided. In those situations, I had to improvise.

I'm a drywall finisher. The filler mud I use comes in a sealed plastic bag, inside a cardboard box. 1 bag of mud fills a 5 gallon pail. In emergency situations, I empty the bag into a pail (common practice), then fold the open end of the cardboard box in on itself so it becomes stronger and more supportive, and then line it with the supplied plastic bag (now empty).
This has been my makeshift toilet in many emergency situations. It has recently become my ONLY toilet, aside from the one that waits for me at home.

I have never considered men peeing in the bushes to be "unacceptable". I think that's stupid. We've been peeing in the bushes for thousands of years, so fuck off.
Peeing EBOLA in the bushes is a different matter though, as apparently humans aren't the only mammal that can carry this virus.

I have also learned to control my bladder and colon after many years of conditioning on long-distance highway trips for work. It's pretty awesome. The one with the strongest bladder controls the pit-stops.

Good thread OP.

Regarding cleanest bathroom stall in a public bathroom, Dr. Oz says first one is the cleanest.
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I haven't seen the episode, Mythbusters seems to suggest several minutes into this video that the first one is not.
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ABC News says first stall is the cleanest.
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Also, the floor is the dirtiest place in the bathroom, so ladies, don't put your purse down on the floor, and take that into consideration when you touch your shoes or something. Eww. You could have someone's Ebola poop on the bottom of your purse or shoes.

I always pee in the bushes...

Ass gaskets gents, ladies, or do not use....

Ebola is not real....quit watching the tell-lie-vision.

One of prophesies' warnings; A big deception....

Death will come at the hands of their forced mass vaccinations...

Dr. Oz had a segment on the good hygiene in public restrooms.

He proved that stall door handles and sink handles collected the most germs as people touch these after wiping off urine or feces from their body. But yet we touch the stall door handle BEFORE we wash our hands off, so germs are present there. Then we take those dirty hands and touch the sink handles.

He suggested washing hands and then using a paper towel to turn off water handle on sink. That way you do not reinfect clean hands.

I also use my paper towel when opening up exit door to women's restroom and throw towel in trash once door is held open with my shoulder. (Trash can is usually close to exit door so it becomes easy.)

Just think... every single person touches that door handle when exiting restroom, whether they wash their hands or not.

These little things WILL make a big difference for all of us.

I think you are right but what about people who work? Most can't wait all day.

Spray Lysol might at least help.



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But you are forgetting that urine can drip through toilet paper and it only takes one drop of Ebola urine to catch it. That is why I suggested using wax paper which is non-porous.

I admit that sometimes I do not take precautionary measures when deciding to sit or not sit on a public toilet seat.

Given that Ebola can be transmitted through bodily fluids, drop(s) of urine on a toilet seat are absorbed into your skin, and this is NOT a good thing!

Many men do not lift the seat and therefore are splattering urine everywhere. And just because you can't see it ( as if may have evaporated). the deadly ebola virus is contagious many days on surfaces.

Some women are not thoughtful and hover several inches above a toilet seat as to not sit on it, yet by doing this, they spray urine on the seat for the next unsuspecting party.

We should consider investing in seat covers where fluids do not penetrate through. Laying toilet paper down on the seat will not help as toilet paper absorbs urine.

We need to change our hygiene habits, and teach those to our children.

Our lives depend on it.

My life indirectly depends on you changing your hygiene habits. Plus your life depends on me changing my habits. We are in this together.


There may be other habits to mitigate this catastrophe.

Share your suggestions here. please!

Hand sanitizer application before I sit in public. Every time.

Dr. Oz had a segment on the good hygiene in public restrooms.

He proved that stall door handles and sink handles collected the most germs as people touch these after wiping off urine or feces from their body. But yet we touch the stall door handle BEFORE we wash our hands off, so germs are present there. Then we take those dirty hands and touch the sink handles.

He suggested washing hands and then using a paper towel to turn off water handle on sink. That way you do not reinfect clean hands.

I also use my paper towel when opening up exit door to women's restroom and throw towel in trash once door is held open with my shoulder. (Trash can is usually close to exit door so it becomes easy.)

Just think... every single person touches that door handle when exiting restroom, whether they wash their hands or not.

These little things WILL make a big difference for all of us.

GROSS!GROSS!GROSS!
I can't believe there are women SITTING ON PUBLIC TOILET SITS!!!!! NEVER in my life I have sat on one!!!! My mom always taught me not to!!!!

I do too. I MUST NOT GET SICK Times 100

You are lucky to have been taught that in Portugal. When I traveled Europe three times earlier, I recalled that no one sat on the seats.

Unfortunately most Americans, female and male(for bowel movements) sit on the toilet seat. Some of us will lay a piece of toilet paper down to line seats before we sit, but not always. Many others will hover over the seats so that unsuspecting parties get a dose of another's urine when sitting down on what they perceive as a clean seat.

That is why I started this thread.

We are only as strong as the weakest link.

Parents have got to teach the young to avoid doing this at all costs.

We all need to get the word out.

That would do nothing for a virus

I have to travel for work and have started using gloves and/or disinfecting wipes to handle gas pumps, wipe toilet seats prior to covering and for faucets, door handles, etc.

Have begun using them for shopping in some cases, along with wiping down the products as I put them in the car.

Gets some strange looks, but so what.

I also carry masks and will be using them as cold and flu season gets rolling.

On the woo woo side... a few more suspected/ confirmed cases in the area and I'm switching to 'work from home' mode.

Just carry a can of break cleaner.

But don't light up a smoke.