Public toilets fill air with aerosols of feces and urine — mask up
I’ve got something new for you — a newly published study warns that public toilets create aerosols of feces and urine that can be detrimental to your health. If you want to protect your health, here is one more reason to wear a face mask.
I’ve always wondered about public toilets with energetic flushing mechanisms that flush the toilet more vigorously since they get more use than your home toilet. It’s cheaper to have these strong flushing mechanisms in public restrooms than to hire people to clean them more frequently.
But that flushing mechanism is so robust that it causes aerosols that contain bits of poo and pee that you inhale. I don’t really want to think about this, but we are breathing all this sewage while we’re in a public restroom.
As I always do, let’s take a look at this new peer-reviewed paper that examines what we’re inhaling while in public restrooms. It’s not going to be pleasant.
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