kniquy
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2014
I think being very mindful of where your hands have been and what you are doing with them is important. I work in healthcare, dialysis specifically and we have to assume that there could be blood everywhere so if we touch something you better have gloves on (not that you would do this in disney) and/or washing/sanitize before you move on to a different task. Pretty much in my daily life i look at many ordinary things as being contaminated -- it has been drilled into me.is going a little too far. Never allowing myself to touch a door handle, railing, or table would stress me out way more than an occasional cold. But I do think this:
For example - It is very easy to be sitting at a table in a restaurant hands touching the table and then maybe you rub your eye or touch your nose or mouth and poof you have now picked up what is on the table. (Because you know there was that gross party before you and Grandpa or little Timmy just went to the bathroom and didn't wash their hands). Forks sitting on the table are the worst -- now you are going to be putting that in your mouth!! I always hope that the restaurant properly cleans the tables, but I am sure that cleaning solution doesn't kill all bacteria or virus out there. Nor are they wiping the table properly. And usually to have a cleaner be effective at killing these things the solution usually has to sit on the surface for 5+ minutes. Kids are horrible with this stuff. So it may not be the adults coughing/sneezing all over the tables but those germy kids (yes i have 3 so i know how gross they can be).
Sorry for the rant, but when i get thinking about things everything is bad -- but it is true that frequent hand washing is probably our best combat against getting these bacteria or viruses.
We are leaving in a week -- when we get on the plane i do plan on wiping down the table and arm rests -- any hard surface-because you know the airline is not cleaning any of that stuff between flights, so all those people before you who have been coughing and sneezing all over the seats and table is just leaving germs all over the place.
We just do what we can to stay healthy and hope that no one gets sick while we are there, but if i were to be sick i would rather be down at disney instead of sitting in my living room!