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Thursday, December 08, 2022

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

If you've been using the self-service checkout line a lot, you might want to reconsider during your next visit to the grocery store… or at least wash your hands afterward. 

Scientists with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine swabbed customer checkout areas of multiple locations, along with handrails, door handles and keyboards and found that store self-checkout areas had the highest bacterial loads.
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22 comments:

  1. rayvetDecember 8, 2022 at 3:24 PM

    Oh please. Another fear mongering article to help further the snowflake cause. Live by this mantra "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" and your life will be fulfilling.

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    1. JeremyRDecember 8, 2022 at 10:32 PM

      That which does not kill me merely prolongs the inevitable.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 8, 2022 at 3:33 PM

    That's why I don't get sick often, and when I do it's mild. I used to be a germaphobe now I'm just short of licking doorknobs.

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  3. RobDecember 8, 2022 at 3:55 PM

    Ya, we're dropping like flies from using those check stand robots...

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  4. bogsidebunnyDecember 8, 2022 at 4:01 PM

    I don't worry about germs at the self check-out, but I do keep an eye out for a moist booger on the credit/debit keypad. Hard, dry ones not so much.

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  5. AnonymousDecember 8, 2022 at 4:17 PM

    Like the checkout clerks are maintaining a sterile environment, sure.

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  6. CjDecember 8, 2022 at 4:52 PM

    I'll file this under "well duh". Anything the general public touches regularly is going to be like that. Now do gas pump handles.

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    1. Otis DDecember 9, 2022 at 4:20 AM

      I was just going to say this.. every so often they come out with this shocking expose on how germ ridden our world is. So wash your hands. don't lick door handles or shopping cart handles. that's why we have an immune system. our bodies are also full of germs.
      that's why the par tests saying we had COVID were such bullshit.

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  7. AnonymousDecember 8, 2022 at 6:10 PM

    Except Infantry. Infantry will kill you. Eod1sg Ret

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  8. samooreDecember 8, 2022 at 6:18 PM

    The study was done in England, so you can draw your own conclusions.

    The places with self-check that I use also have people cleaning the scanners and keypads periodically.

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    1. AnonymousDecember 9, 2022 at 10:18 AM

      its those left-handed keypad users ( named aisha and Mohammed)?

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  9. Glypto DropemDecember 8, 2022 at 6:29 PM

    I refuse to use them until I get a 10% discount for doing so. Otherwise the cashiers need to do their fucking job.

    I work in EMS, so I am exposed to all kinds of crud daily and other than the Chi-Com Xi Flu in March 2020, nothing more than a short duration head cold.

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  10. ElmoDecember 8, 2022 at 6:46 PM

    This explains why the guy in the public restroom the other day had his candy bars laying on the floor right where every body's dribble would land. He was building antibodies.
    Smart man.

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  11. AnonymousDecember 8, 2022 at 7:41 PM

    Yeah...as if self-checkout were to be abolished and all the traffic that shifts back over to live-checkers wouldn't be just as dirty.

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    1. AnonymousDecember 9, 2022 at 11:20 AM

      naaa, that piece of plexiglass magically kills all them germs.

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  12. AnonymousDecember 9, 2022 at 7:04 AM

    There is a site called despair.com that parodies motivation posters. They used to have a poster: "What doesn't kill you simply postpones the inevitable"

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  13. AnonymousDecember 9, 2022 at 7:49 AM

    Hospitals are for the weak, or so my daughter says

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  14. AnonymousDecember 9, 2022 at 11:59 PM

    During the height of the "pandemic" stores were so paranoid about being clean that someone would run up to the self check after every use and go nuts with disinfecting spray. Stores were disinfected so much they all smelled like hotels. I've noticed that isn't happening anymore. But I don't need to be told to wash my hands when I get home because I'm not a lazy retard and can manage the most basic hygiene. Even before 2020.

    I don't really care for self check. It's like I'm an unpaid cashier.

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