LPT: Washing your hands is basically free and more effective
Edit: a lot of things to respond to here, but my wife who is an infectious disease specialist advised I just give you this pamphlet from the CDC on hand washing and sanitizers.
The things that are probably least well known but most important here are that hand washing technique (shown in the CDC pamphlet) is incredibly important and that the “wet time” or “contact time” with alcohol based sanitizers is also important. This is the time that the disinfectant needs to stay wet on a surface in order to ensure efficacy (CDC recommends 20 seconds which will probably sound like a lot but less time equals less killing power)
Edit 2: TIL there are no sinks on trains, there are no sinks in automobiles, you can not wash hands on a horse, you cannot wash hands on a mule, if you need to wash on the go, you must clean with sanitizer, now this I know
Edit 3: I liked this cool guide by U/BadMeditator from sometime last week showing some examples of what hand sanitizers do and don’t work on
CardiacSchmardiac on March 10th, 2020 at 05:15 UTC »
LPT: Washing your hands is basically free and more effective
Edit: a lot of things to respond to here, but my wife who is an infectious disease specialist advised I just give you this pamphlet from the CDC on hand washing and sanitizers.
The things that are probably least well known but most important here are that hand washing technique (shown in the CDC pamphlet) is incredibly important and that the “wet time” or “contact time” with alcohol based sanitizers is also important. This is the time that the disinfectant needs to stay wet on a surface in order to ensure efficacy (CDC recommends 20 seconds which will probably sound like a lot but less time equals less killing power)
Edit 2: TIL there are no sinks on trains, there are no sinks in automobiles, you can not wash hands on a horse, you cannot wash hands on a mule, if you need to wash on the go, you must clean with sanitizer, now this I know
Edit 3: I liked this cool guide by U/BadMeditator from sometime last week showing some examples of what hand sanitizers do and don’t work on
ryans_privatess on March 10th, 2020 at 05:16 UTC »
Amazon had "recommendations" and a pack of handwipes (24) was going for $40. Preying on fear
m0niyaw on March 10th, 2020 at 09:13 UTC »
Make your own hand sanitizer with rubbing alcohol and gelatine. It’s sexually easy and you can add aromas to it.
EDIT: *actually
I’m still leaving the original. Fuck it.