Having been around salon and healthcare workers, I find it disgusting that all too many people don't take standard cleanliness precautions, like not washing hands or cleaning tools. Almost all of them are foreign.
In America, we are bombarded with hygiene commercials for antibacterial soap and alcohol gel. In the poor countries where they come from, a lot of people live in squalor and not-so-clean conditions. They either grow strong and immune, or die of cholera. Gloves aren't commonly used because they cost money and stuff. However, they come here to America, get jobs, and keep up their not-so-clean habits.
There was one woman who worked in the nursing home with me. She had long nasty acrylic nails and tacky, ornate rings (bith major no-nos in the healthcare field, but this place was shitty and lax). She also never fucking wore gloves. Changing diapers, showering, cleaning up puke, nothing. I never saw her wash her hands either. I remember one time, she was changing the diaper of a patient who was having a full-out herpes outbreak. I offered her gloves, but she declined. I hated that bossy bitch. If a patient didn't want a shower or something and started trying to hit me or something, she'd take the patient, tell her things like, "The mean girl is gone, I'm here. It's okay" Even though she'd bossily take over, she'd complain that I was lazy and that she had to do all the work. I hated that bitch, and I didn't want her ever touching me for obvious reasons.
I recently got a dirty Brazilian wax from an equally stupid woman. Normally I go to my regular, but she wasn't there. Instead, I went to the dirty bitch who only wore one glove, blew on the wax to cool it, re-dipped the same stick, and did an overall shitty job that left me with a rash and a yeast infection. I reported her.
My friend was telling me about her son kept getting ringworm. The doc couldn't figure it out, as the house was clean, none of the other kids at daycare had it, and there were no animals in the house. Finally, they figured out the culprit. My friend would go to a cheap local neighborhood barbershop to get her son's hair cut. The place didn't properly disinfect the tools, and transferred an epidemic.
All of these jobs require training. To be a nursing assistant, one of the things they test you on is handwashing and which situations require gloves. Cosmetology school also requires teaching cleanliness measures, like disinfecting combs. They have no excuse not to know.
If you can't keep a job or keep getting in trouble because you're dirty, oh boo-fucking-hoo in C-minor. That negligence is downright fucking dangerous. You can teach pre-schoolers to wash their hands. There's no excuse for their lack of cleanliness.



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Of course, this wouldn't be a problem if everyone washed their hands! And don't get me started on the people who think that rinsing their hands in water for a few seconds qualifies as washing


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