[Evidence Inconclusive] Germ Blaster

Remember kids, when making graffiti, always cite your sources.

The hand dryers that promise you bacon are LYING BASTARDS!

Include the publishing year in your reference.

Funnily, that's not really true. Such studies showing that exist but are sponsored by… paper towel companies

Good time to share How to use one paper towel (to thoroughly dry your hands in a public restroom).

Shake. Fold. It really does work.

I particularly hate those airblade things even more than regular air dryers. I like that they're faster and typically not as gross and warm but they are designed in a way where you feed your hand in to a narrow gap with powerful air jets in front of and behind your hands in this gap. Your hands are not a completely uniform symmetrical shape, so the jets buffet your hand around and they inevitably touch the parts of the device where the jets are located, right where everyone else has had the same thing happen. It grosses me out.

Yet, the best hand dryers are still your trousers

Is this true? Seriously curious.

Why are there germs on your hands right after washing them? Didn't mythbusters already test it and concluded that they are only bad when people don't really wash their hands.

I'll just leave this here:

Hygiene associated with the product has been questioned in research by the University of Westminster Trade Group, London and sponsored by the paper towel industry the European Tissue Symposium

I just wish people would know how to use paper towels so that they don't end up wasting huge piles of them for nothing. 1 sheet is enough. You don't need 5. Do it like this:

• After washing your hands, brush excess water off each hand using your other hand. Your hands should not be dripping wet when you reach for the paper towel.
• Take a single paper towel. Don't scrunch it up, and don't just clasp the towel. Use all parts of the paper towel to deliberately wipe your hands. The paper towels are quite absorbent. They don't need to be 100% dry to remove the water from your hands.

The end. If you do this, your hands will not be wet. You will not need a second paper towel.

This has been debunked btw. Fwiw, there is a huge behind the scenes fight between big towel and big airblow.

I'm not kidding. But basically drying via air is much more hygienic in actuality.

Are you calling the air powered piss blasters gross?

It’s insane we keep using those things after covid. They’re fucking disgusting.

How can it spread germs if the germs are 99% gone after having washed your hands with soap? We're assuming people aren't washing their hands properly, right?

My biggest issue is the decibel level. I can hear, for now, but the decibel level on those things makes one of my ears feel like it’s being blasted out of my skull and induces ringing.

I use the paper because it doesn’t hurt my ear.

Yes, I’ve seen a doctor, it simply is what it is and my only recourse for that ear is to wear ear protection. In any public restroom, apparently.

But I thought all the piss sterilizes them.

I mean sure, but!

... It trains everyone to make the silly nyaa anime catgirl poses with our arms and hands.

Checkmate.

It sucks that the only device that works spreads germs. Will humanity ever find a hand drying method that not only dries hands but is also safe?

Every few years either the paper towels or the dryer spreads more germs, depends on the mood you know.

Edit: Seems like Big Paper™ sent their goons /s https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(11)00967-9/abstract

Paper towels can be recycled

I kinda got that sense from the moment that “AirBlade” sprayed all my germy hand water up into my face

Noted. Thanks OP

Inconclusive sauce here: https://mander.xyz/post/21607221/15388187

tried using one of those hand dryers and it made my hands smell terrible