Why public bathrooms are a stumbling block for reopening.

[WetDad]

An interesting article in the Washington Post about how restrooms are now being revised to accommodate new ideas of clean in our pandemic age. Suddenly, my incontinence is no longer a handicap.

 

The idea of a return to life in public is unnerving enough for many people. But it turns out that one of the biggest obstacles to dining in a restaurant, renewing a doctor’s appointment or going back to the office is the prospect of having to use a public restroom — a tight, intimate and potentially germ-infested space.

It’s a hurdle vexing many business owners as they prepare to reopen in a time of social distancing, reduced capacity and heightened anxiety about the very air we breathe.

A Texas barbecue restaurant reopened only after hiring for a new job category: a bathroom monitor, who assures that people waiting their turn are spaced well apart. In Florida, malls are installing touch-free sinks and hand dryers in restrooms before opening their doors. McDonald’s is requiring franchisees to clean bathrooms every 30 minutes. Across the country, businesses are replacing blow dryers with paper towels, decommissioning urinals that now seem too close together, and removing restroom doors to create airport-style, no-touch entrances

 

 

 

 

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

The I-95 Darien CT truck stop has been ahead with the urinals by having a partition between them and a good deal of hands-free functions. Can't wait for S Barro's to open back up at that location