Some servos provide alcohol hand rub stuff, my local shell servo has it

 

Someone justifying their government grant?

Cheers

Ray

 

Some of the independent servos have them up here, at the diesel pumps and hand wash.

Foo

 

not a little bit paranoid are we? gonna catch AIDS from the fuel bowser???

 

Like I said. Wouldn't have bothered me in the past. But that was then and this is now.

Australia has been letting people in from countries that have many diseases that we had eliminated. No so any more, they are on their way back. Unfortunate really. Sensible blokes will start being a liitle more careful as far as hygeine is concerned.

 

As I use diesel, and that fact that 95% of the bowser handles are covered in diesel I don’t think I will worry about it too much.

Hell, I work in a muslin country, and other shyte holes, where they wash their arse with their hand, then just give it a rinse and go to work or the galley to eat.

That is more of a worry that what is on a bowser handle. But what are you going to do, other than look after your own hygiene.

Personally, I think a lot of the old infections that are making a come back is because we tend to live in a more sterile world these days.

Get down and get dirty if you want to stay healthy lol.

 

Yup. I call it the MJ syndrome. I ate duck chit as a kid. And aside from the hormone imbalance, nerve twitches, retarded mental development, physical muscular failures and drugs to combat digestive issues I'm perfectly healthy.

 

Mic, there's nothing wrong with you that a bullet wouldn't fix, LOL

 

There's a lot to be gained from exposure to common bugs. Beefs up the immune system etc.

What does bother me is the rare ones that were almost eradicated.

Don't want to see another 'Typhoid Mary.'

A month ago my wife went for a routine blood test at QML. A couple of days later got a phone call from the Public Health Nurse. Apparently they had a patient with Rubella (German Measles) in there on the same day. The nurse wanted to know how old my wife was. When I told her she said: 'No need to worry, she'll have been immunised.'

Apparently mass immunisation is no longer the routine...trouble ahead.

 

There's a lot to be gained from exposure to common bugs. Beefs up the immune system etc.

What does bother me is the rare ones that were almost eradicated.

Don't want to see another 'Typhoid Mary.'

A month ago my wife went for a routine blood test at QML. A couple of days later got a phone call from the Public Health Nurse. Apparently they had a patient with Rubella (German Measles) in there on the same day. The nurse wanted to know how old my wife was. When I told her she said: 'No need to worry, she'll have been immunised.'

Apparently mass immunisation is no longer the routine...trouble ahead.

Yeh, I have noted the “new agers” who don’t believe in giving their kids the immunisations that we got as a matter of course, after all, what do those old fogies know.

My wife and I got some gyp off people when we gave the kids all the shots, “you don’t need that anymore", idiots all of them. I pity those kids growing up with mental retards as parents…

Fools will always be trying to reinvent the wheel and beat their head against a brick wall, despite it all being done before.

 

It's all to do with modern marketing. What does one see on TV every night, a spray for germs on bench tops, a spray for germs/smells on carpets, a spray for germs/smells in the air, etc etc. People are led to believe that one's environment is going to kill them unless they spray the krap out of it.

Chemical Ali at least made no bones about what his cleansing sprays would do to his bad guys. Our marketing equivalents might also say that they are killing the bad guys, but forget to say that there may be some collateral damage.

Cheers

Ray

 

I believe you are onto something there to Drillerboy!

Foo

 

There is a woman here in the US who is barred from a number of McDonalds outlets because she makes a scene and swabs the children's playground equipment.

Bloody germs, haven't they got better things to do than hang around where people are, damn they have been doing it for millions of years you would think they would learn by now....