Gaines Gunn on Always Wash Your Hands
Gaines Gunn
Always Wash Your Hands
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 Okay, so I just went to the bathroom and I wanted to kind of talk about you know what you do after you go to the bathroom.
- 0:12 And this might be kind of a weird topic, I know, but I think it's important because my bathroom was pretty gross, and I live in a community area where we share the bathroom among a lot of people, and I think it's really interesting.
- 0:26 Um I know that there are alternatives like hand sanitizer, for instance, but I know that hand sanitizer is not as effective as washing your hands, and this shouldn't really be a controversy, because a lot of us know intuitively that you should wash your hands after you use the bathroom.
- 0:51 But the marketing campaigns of hand sanitizer and the way that it is projected towards us is that it is a safe and perfectly like it is a perfect alternative to washing your hands, and I just think that is completely false.
- 1:06 And the reason why I think this is because I did a study in high school, um, and it involved Serracea bacteria, which is a common household bacteria, it's found in most showers, most bathrooms around the country, and this this bacteria is pretty dangerous, like most bacteria.
- 1:20 I mean, if it enters your body, it can be pretty dangerous.
- 1:22 Um basically my experiment was I took five samples of this bacteria and I grew it in petri dishes.
- 1:30 I then took five different cleaning devices, um, hand soap, lysol, um, alcohol, and another one, and then um hand sanitizer.
- 1:44 And you know what I found is that hand soap was the most effective.
- 1:50 And maybe it was the brand that I bought.
- 1:52 I don't know.
- 1:52 You can claim that my experiment was flawed, but I really don't think it is.
- 1:58 Um, and you know what?
- 2:00 The only product that did not affect the bacteria, and it was the hand sanitizer.
- 2:06 And that is why I think it's just so important for people to know that yes, hand sanitizer is easier, it's faster, it's more accessible, but it doesn't actually clean you as well as soap does.
- 2:20 Soap, warm water, and washing your hands with soap.
- 2:23 I think that's really important.
- 2:25 I think that a lot of people should know this.
- 2:26 I think that a lot of people would get sick less often if they actually wash their hands, and that is why it is so important, especially among community living, where maybe your bathroom isn't as isn't washed as much, and you can't guarantee that people are gonna treat it kindly, that you should always wash your hands because you will get more sick if you don't, because that is the best way to clean your hands.
- 2:52 Thank you.