Comments on: SDCC 2010: Squirrt

By: Random Webcomics Junkie

Random Webcomics Junkie — Sun, 05 May 2013 11:01:44 +0000

I like this solution!

By: Random Webcomics Junkie

Random Webcomics Junkie — Sun, 05 May 2013 10:58:34 +0000

It’s not paranoia, it’s just good sense. Conventions – along with all other situations where hundreds or thousands of people are crammed together for days – are breeding grounds for all sorts of icky illnesses. If you’re shaking dozens of hands per day and don’t want to get sick, you use hand sanitiser.

Hell, the correlation between getting colds and flying on aeroplanes is well-documented and accounted for by high traffic (pun not intended) of people, some of whom statistically have colds. And you’re not actively shaking those hands or sitting on the plane for more than a few hours.

By: ajm5007

ajm5007 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:17:30 +0000

Just offer the other person some sanitizer, too. Awkwardness resolved!

By: Glomoro

Glomoro — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:24:36 +0000

Perhaps people would all wash their hands more often after witnessing someone desperately removing the filth of their handshake? Etiquette shmetiquette, turn hand shakes into public service announcements.

By: Earlofthercs

Earlofthercs — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:18:00 +0000

Most colds/flu are caused by viruses that aren’t affected by hand sanitising spray even remotely anyway.

By: MrGBH

MrGBH — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:28:17 +0000

There are genetic disorders such as Gilbert’s Syndrome which weaken your immune system. When dealing with people who’ve presumably been scratching their nuts while getting all hot and bothered about new releases, it’s important to not take any chances.

By: Dreams

Dreams — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:18:24 +0000

I work in a hospital and at a cash register, meaning that not only are the customers likely to be teeming with bacteria, I’m also handling money, one of the foulest things on the planet.

And the thing is? I believe in dirt, and in not being overprotective, and in building up a healthy immune system. I do not normally use hand sanitizer at all.

And I don’t use hand sanitizer after every transaction. I do use it before I touch my face. Because I like it sans oozing pustulent boils.

By: Emerald

Emerald — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:10:37 +0000

lol i do the same thing sometimes….i just try to hide it more.

By: Refeldt

Refeldt — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:48:26 +0000

Agreed. Now a days people I now, and those at work are so sanitized that the littlest of sniffles knock them out for days.

Me, I only wash my hands before I eat, after using the restroom, if I deal with anyone visibly sick, or if I touch something wet and sticky. And I’m hardly ever sick, and if I do get sick, it takes something major to knock me off my feet.

And yes, I worked in retail, and hospitality, cleaned restrooms at a theme park, hauled and emptied dumpsters at the same theme park, and on a fairly common occurrence, had to climb into those large trash compactors to dig out junk that couldn’t be compacted.

On a side note, do you really meet guys as cute as that at Cons Willis? If so, I gotta start going to these things.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:31:14 +0000

Just yesterday on the bus, an Hispanic family was sitting near me with a 5 year old. When the kid touched the bottom of his sneakers, the hand sanitizer came flying out of the mother’s purse and she warned him that he would get “R-r-r-r-rota virus”

I was trying so hard not to laugh…