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Those of you who don't wash your hands after going to the bathroom, why? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] AnEye@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do 99 time out of 100, but imma point out that if I'm just urinating, I can go to the bathroom without touching anything but my belt loops. So what would be the reason to wash, if anything wetting hands would increase the chance of contamination.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Because peeing spreads around microscopic pee particles that go many places. Same for flushing after pooping squirts poop particles around.

IIRC, that luteral crap can spread around 2 meters of a toilet