I’ve been sending this image around, but didn’t think to post it here first. I’m sure there is an audience for this kind of step-by-step instructional document of how to wash your hands, but I can’t think of who that person is. I saw this in a men’s bathroom in a hospital yesterday, and I found it to be very amusing.
You’d be surprised how many people think the soap is optional, even for a doodie.
I can distribute these to my mechanic. For some odd reason he feels to shake my hands whenever he has grease, dirt, filth, crud, mud, poop, tar, etc on them. It never fails. At one time the back of his hand look like a newly washed baby’s but and then he shook my hands, his palm had a grease on it that took days to wah off. So, yes, I do agree with you that there is an audience out there that deserves instructions on proper disinfection of the hand.
FYI…just found this out and wanted to contribute…
You may be tempted to take a biological jackhammer to every microbe that dare touch your family, but the fact is there’s a lot we don’t know about the long-term effects of common, household use of anti-bacterials. According to the Centers for Disease Control, these chemicals have been shown, in the lab, to kill off only weak bacteria—leaving the tougher ones to reproduce. That’s led many medical experts to worry that anti-bacterial soaps might be contributing to the rise of stronger bacteria, capable of fighting off our attempts to kill it. So far, this theory hasn’t been proved in a real-life setting. What has been proved, however, is that washing your hands with anti-bacterial soap isn’t anymore effective at preventing disease than hand washing with regular soap. First reported in a 2004 study, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, this discovery led a Food and Drug Administration Expert Advisory Council to announce the next year that there was no proof anti-bacterial soaps lived up to their advertising claims. Bottom line: It’s just not worth the risk.